Christ Church C of E Primary School
English 2024-2025
Welcome to our English page for 2024/2025.
On this page you will find information about what we will be learning in each class, how we teach English across the school and the texts we will read in each class.
Below are some of our 'book in box' entries from our recent competition. We had a fantastic response from children in every class in school.
Well done everyone!
You can see some of our entries below.
You can find these and some of our other entries on display in our school library.
English Intent, Implementation and Impact
At Christ Church Primary School, we are committed to providing all children with learning opportunities to engage and develop their love for English in all forms. Through the study of English, we aim to develop children's abilities to speak, listen, read and write for a wide range of purposes and audiences. Through teaching a wide range of genres that are linked to high quality texts, we ensure the children to have a meaningful purpose for writing they produce.
We aim to encourage their ability to write fluently, with interesting detail on a number of topics throughout the curriculum. Using their vivid imaginations and high quality texts, they will engage readers through use of ambitious vocabulary and an excellent knowledge of writing techniques. Children are encouraged to discuss their writing orally, read their work aloud and given opportunities to recite poetry to their classmates and wider audiences.
Well-organised and grammatically coherent writing, excellent transcription skills, combined with a passion to produce work that is presented to the highest standard will ensure that our children leave Christ Church confident and capable readers and writers.
Each half term children study a text. This text will be the focus for their reading and writing activities in class
The following link will show you what texts each class will be reading this year and the writing genres that will accompany the texts.
English in EYFS
The stautory framework for EYFS states that
"It is crucial for children to develop a life-long love of reading. Reading consists of two dimensions: language comprehension and word reading. Language comprehension (necessary for both reading and writing) starts from birth. It only develops when adults talk with children about the world around them and the books (stories and non-fiction) they read with them, and enjoy rhymes, poems and songs together. Skilled word reading, taught later, involves both the speedy working out of the pronunciation of unfamiliar printed words (decoding) and the speedy recognition of familiar printed words. Writing involves transcription (spelling and handwriting) and composition (articulating ideas and structuring them in speech, before writing)."
Communication and Language
"The development of children’s spoken language underpins all seven areas of learning and development. Children’s back-and-forth interactions from an early age form the foundations for language and cognitive development. The number and quality of the conversations they have with adults and peers throughout the day in a language-rich environment is crucial. By commenting on what children are interested in or doing, and echoing back what they say with new vocabulary added, practitioners will build children's language effectively. Reading frequently to children, and engaging them actively in stories, non-fiction, rhymes and poems, and then providing them with extensive opportunities to use and embed new words in a range of contexts, will give children the opportunity to thrive. Through conversation, storytelling and role play, where children share their ideas with support and modelling from their teacher, and sensitive questioning that invites them to elaborate, children become comfortable using a rich range of vocabulary and language structures."
Below you will find our progression document for the teaching of English across school. The documents outlines the knowledge and skills acquired through the teaching of reading, writing and SPaG across school
Reading
Reading Incentive
At Christ Church School, reading is a high priority! We have a wide range of high quality reading books for all ages and abilities. To promote a love for reading, we have a whole-school reading incentive. Each child has their own reading road map in the front of their reading records. Every time your child reads either in school or at home and gets a signature, they can colour in a square on their road map. Once a section is filled they will receive a sticker.
The rewards are as follows:
Each time the children have read 50 times they will be rewarded with star stickers in our weekly Thursday morning worship. Once they reach 250, 300 and 350 times they will be rewarded with Bronze, Silver and Gold stickers.
A reading reward pin will be awarded for 400 times and parents invited into school to celebrate.
Writing
At Christ Church children get the opportunity to write for a range of purposes and audiences. Our writing genres are linked to a high quality text and the children are encouraged to draw on what they have read as a stimulus for their own writing.
Throughout their time at Christ Church children will write pieces of fiction, non fiction and poetry. The process for each type of writing is available below.
The processes the children follow are the same for each year group from year one onwards. The expectations for each year group builds upon prior learning and these outcomes are linked to the SPaG expectations for each year group; ensuring the children understand and are able to use the SPaG in context.
Handwriting
Specific handwriting lessons are delivered three times each week. In reception and year one children are taught how to form individual letters correctly - lower and upper case and also form their numbers correctly. Joins are introduced towards the end of year one in preparation for year two.The format of the weekly sessions can be found in the document below.
When each join is introduced can be found in the document below
