English
'Learning Together for Life'
We aim to develop pupils’ abilities within an integrated programme of Speaking & Listening, Reading and Writing. Pupils will be given opportunities to interrelate the requirements of English within a broad and balanced curriculum: with opportunities to consolidate and reinforce taught Literacy skills. We aim to equip pupils with knowledge and skills and the ability to apply these to meet the needs of present and future society.
At Hartford Manor we aim to encourage pupils to:
Speak fluently and listen with attention and understanding
Read and write with confidence, fluency and understanding
Be able to use a full range of reading cues (phonic, graphic, syntactic, contextual) to monitor their reading and correct their own mistakes
Have interest in words and their meanings; developing a growing vocabulary in spoken and written forms
Understand a range of text types and genres – be able to write in a variety of styles and forms appropriate to the situation
Have fluent and legible handwriting
Plan, draft, revise and edit their own writing
Be interested in books. Read with enjoyment and evaluate and justify their preferences
Develop their powers of imagination, inventiveness and critical awareness
Pathways to Read, Write and Spell
Phonics at Hartford Manor
We use the Floppy’s Phonics Sounds and Letters programme to deliver teaching of systematic, synthetic phonics.
Lessons are taught daily in Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and 2. Some children may have more than one session a day.
Children are assessed every 4-6 weeks to ensure they ‘keep up’ and don’t have to ‘catch up’. Where they are at the risk of falling behind, they are given additional support such as daily flashcard practice, pre-teach sessions or a re-teach. The impact of this intervention is measured at the subsequent assessment point.
Parents are invited to attend a reading meeting at the beginning of the academic year to ensure they understand how to support their child. They also have access to the online teaching platform used in school so that they can re-practice any previously taught sounds.
Children take home their activity sheets to share with parents so that they get another opportunity to practice and parents are fully involved with their child’s learning.
