ENGLISH
Subject Leaders: Mr Parker with Mr Sowden, Miss Pake, Mrs Matthews
PHONICS
PHONICS POLICY
BUG CLUB PHONICS KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS PROGRESSION
BUG CLUB PHONICS PROGRESSION CHART
READING
READING INTENT
At St Matthew’s, we instil a passion for reading for all children. We believe that reading for enjoyment is a gateway to a world of opportunity. We combine high quality, vocabulary rich texts with the explicit teaching of reading skills including: decoding, fluency, retrieval and inference. Alongside this, we ensure children have exposure to a wide range of genres covering all aspects of purposeful reading in all curriculum areas. As well as reading in school, we encourage children to engage in wider reading through our 100 Book Challenge. We recognise reading is an essential life skill and children will leave St Matthew’s with a love of reading.
READING POLICY
READING SKILLS PROGRESSION
READING CURRICULUM MAP
READING SPINE
WRITING
WRITING INTENT
At St Matthew’s, we provide exciting, engaging and purposeful opportunities to inspire all pupils and instil a passion for writing. We combine high quality, vocabulary rich texts with enthusiastic and engaging teaching practice to immerse children in a range of text types and genres. Alongside this, we ensure children have a solid understanding of the transcription and grammatical skills necessary to write fluently, accurately and effectively.
IMPLEMENTATION
We know that talk is fundamental to the writing process. At St Matthew’s, writing happens collaboratively: we use shared, paired and modelled writing to enable children to write independently. For each genre we follow a three-phase process with each phase containing a number of steps. Each phase typically lasts three to five lessons. Once per half term, children should be provided with an opportunity to publish a piece of work.