English

English

Intent 

At Milverton Community Primary School and Pre-School we recognise that English is fundamental to pupils’ success in school and in later life. Our English curriculum is designed to be ambitious, inclusive and aspirational, enabling all pupils to be confident communicators and successful learners, which starts with securing strong foundations in Key Stage 1. Through high-quality texts, our curriculum fosters a love of reading and writing, while explicitly teaching vocabulary, grammar and language structures so that pupils can communicate effectively, creatively and with increasing confidence.

Implementation

• Our phonics teaching and learning is taught using Bug Club Phonics – a DfE approved phonics programme. 
• We share a range of high-quality texts with our children to develop a love of reading, increase their knowledge of vocabulary and comprehension skills. These texts can be found on our reading intent document. 
• We use a Talk for Writing process within our writing units of work which are based on carefully chosen high-quality texts. The children have a variety of writing opportunities across the year with a focus on audience and purpose. 
• Handwriting is taught using ‘Letter-join’ which is a progressive whole school handwriting scheme in line with the National Curriculum.