At Watling Primary School, our Literacy curriculum incorporates writing, reading, spelling and spoken language.
Our writing curriculum is based on exciting, high quality core texts which have been chosen specifically to expose our children to a diverse range of authors, characters, genres and topics, some of which are linked to our school’s STEM and sustainability focuses.
Our writing opportunities are linked to these core texts and enable the children to plan and write effectively for a range of purposes and audiences. We have high aspirations and want all our pupils to achieve ambitious writing goals.
At Watling Primary School, we recognise the intrinsic part that reading plays in the ability of our children to access learning across all other curriculum areas. In reading lessons, children are taught to develop their reading fluency, comprehension and inference strategies by reading books carefully matched to their individual reading ability. By encouraging experimentation, individuality and personal expression, we aim to nurture a lifelong love of reading. To learn more about our reading approach, please read our Phonics and Early Reading Statement.
Spelling is explicitly taught through spelling sessions once our children have completed the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised phonics scheme. We encourage our children to problem solve when writing in any subject, by recalling spelling rules that they have learned.
We believe in developing effective communicators, and therefore use and develop speaking and listening skills in a wide range of activities. We encourage our children to be ambitious in their choice of vocabulary, and encourage lots of oracy before pen is put to paper.
The National Curriculum Programmes of Study for English for Key Stage 1 and 2 provide further information.