English

English at Endon Hall…

The principal aim of the English curriculum at Endon Hall Primary & Nursery School is to enable children to develop their ability to communicate effectively in a grammatically accurate and confident manner through the spoken and written word.  We recognise that English is a core subject within the National Curriculum and a pre-requisite for educational and social progress. Mastery over language empowers children to communicate creatively and imaginatively, as well as allowing them engagement with the world at large.

At Endon Hall Primary & Nursery School, we are committed to raising standards in English in our school, particularly in the skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening. We aim to encourage the development of all aspects of literacy using a text based approach with a balance of knowledge and skills based learning and cross curricular links (where relevant); seeking to inspire learners to read widely and often and ensuring that children are prepared for the next stage in their education. We endeavour to ensure that there is equality of access and opportunity for all children to develop their English skills. We seek to ensure that all children achieve their full potential in all aspects of English by the time they make the transition from primary to secondary education and recognise the importance that the early foundations have on future learning and life.

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At Endon Hall we strive for children to be ‘literate’ and able to:

• Read, write and speak with confidence, fluency and understanding
• Speak confidently and clearly, adapting what they say and how they say it to the purpose and audience
• Listen, understand and respond appropriately to what others have to say
• Understand the connections between the spoken and the written word
• Be able to orchestrate a full range of strategies and cues (phonic, graphic, syntactic, contextual) to monitor their own reading and writing and to correct their own mistakes
• Understand a range of text types and genres (fiction and non-fiction) and be able to write in a variety of styles and forms appropriate to the audience and purpose
• Be able to plan, draft, revise, edit and assess their own writing
• Develop fluent and legible handwriting
• Have an interest in words and their meanings, developing a growing vocabulary in spoken and written forms through both English and the foundation subjects
• Have an increasing repertoire of higher level vocabulary and story language to use in their writing (authorial craft)
• Have an interest in a wide range of different genres of books, read with enjoyment and understanding, evaluating and justifying their preferences
• Discuss reading and writing comprehensively, expressing opinions, explaining techniques and justifying choices, about a wide range of fiction and non-fiction texts, using suitable technical vocabulary
• Through reading and writing, develop their powers of imagination, inventiveness and critical awareness

Our key priority areas for English are: 

• Reading for pleasure
• Vocabulary
• Spelling
• Handwriting
• Target setting & Feedback
• Speaking & Listening
• Phonics (we deliver the Little Wandle validated Phonics scheme)

Have a look at our suggested book lists for each year group:

• Brilliant book list – Year 1
• Brilliant book list – Year 2
• Brilliant book list – Year 3
• Brilliant book list – Year 4
• Brilliant book list – Year 5
• Brilliant book list – Year 6

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