English

English Intent Implement Impact Statement- UNDER REVIEW

Our writing curriculum is designed to provide a broad and balanced education that meets the needs of all children. We follow the award-winning Ready Steady Write from Literacy Counts to develop confident, independent and successful writers with high aspirations. Our writing curriculum is research-informed and impact-proven, carefully designed to support all children to master the foundational skills and write for a clear audience and purpose. Through the use of high-quality, vocabulary-rich texts, we provide exciting and meaningful reasons to write. Children are immersed in literature and taught to craft their writing with precision, using a range of pedagogical approaches, including sentence accuracy, modelled writing and shared writing, as well as regular opportunities for editing. We value spoken language as a foundation for writing. Through structured talk, drama and vocabulary exploration, children learn how to organise and express their ideas clearly before writing them down. Our aim is for every child – regardless of need – to write fluently and take pride in their work. We want our pupils to leave primary school as enthusiastic writers, ready for the next stage of their education.

At our school, reading is taught through a structured and progressive approach that supports children from their earliest phonics learning to advanced comprehension skills. In Key Stage One, we use Rocket Phonics to give pupils a strong foundation in decoding, blending and early reading fluency. As children progress, we develop their understanding further through Reading VIPERS—a framework that focuses on Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval and Summarising. Through VIPERS questioning and activities, pupils learn to explore language, think deeply about texts and build the key skills needed to become confident, thoughtful and enthusiastic readers.

Phonics Progression

Spelling Progression

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