English
Intent
At Upper Beeding Primary School we understand that Literacy is a fundamental life skill and underpins learning in all subjects. Literacy develops children’s ability to listen, speak, read and write for a wide range of purposes. Children need the ability to express themselves creatively and imaginatively as they become enthusiastic and critical readers of stories, poetry and drama, as well as of non-fiction and media texts. Children need to gain the understanding of how language works by looking at its patterns, structures and origins. Children use their knowledge, skills and understanding in speaking and writing across a range of different situations.
Aims and Objectives:
- To enable children to speak clearly and audibly and to take account of their listeners;
- To encourage children to listen with concentration, in order to identify the main points of what they have heard;
- To show children how to adapt their speech to a wide range of circumstances and demands;
- To teach children effective communication, both verbal and non-verbal, through a variety of drama activities, including the communication of their ideas, views and feelings.
- To help children to become confident, independent readers, through an appropriate focus on word, sentence and text-level knowledge;
- To enable children to become enthusiastic and reflective readers, through contact with age-appropriate, and challenging and substantial texts;
- To foster the enjoyment of writing, and a recognition of its value;
- To encourage accurate and meaningful writing, narrative and non-fiction and poetry;
- To improve the planning, drafting and editing of their written work;
- To foster a lifelong love of English.
EYFS/KS1 Reading Schemes and Phonics
At Upper Beeding Primary School we help your child to get ready for learning to read and write using phonics by developing their understanding that spoken words are made up of different sounds. Your child will take part in a high-quality phonics session every day. The programme that we use at Upper Beeding Primary is called Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised. This is a Government recommended systematic and synthetic phonics scheme.
Because we believe teaching every child to read is so important, we have a Reading Lead, who drives the early reading programme in our school. This person is highly skilled at teaching phonics and reading, and they monitor and support our reading team, so everyone teaches with fidelity to the Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised programme
We use Big Cat Phonics Little Wandle books to support our children's reading at Upper Beeding Primary School. We will soon be subscribing to Little Wandle ebooks and providing parents with login details so you can access the Big Cat Phonics Little Wandle books at home with your child.
At Upper Beeding we believe the enjoyment of reading is at the heart of a love of learning. We understand that Literacy is a fundamental life skill and underpins learning in all subjects. Literacy develops children’s ability to listen, speak, read and write for a wide range of purposes. Children need the ability to express themselves creatively and imaginatively as they become enthusiastic and critical readers of stories, poetry and drama, as well as of non-fiction and media texts. Children need to gain the understanding of how language works by looking at its patterns, structures and origins. Children use their knowledge, skills and understanding in speaking and writing across a range of different situations.
World Book Day
The school really wants the children to enjoy and be enthusiastic about reading. We know that when children love reading they will want to do it more. World Book Day gives us a wonderful opportunity to celebrate books with the children. Watch the film to see our "Teacher Read" event where children were free to drop into any class to listen to a particular book!
Book Week
Children love our special weeks at the school. Book week featured plenty of visits, performances and special activities. Have a look at the video to see more.
When Julia Donaldson came to visit
The school regularly invites authors into the school to talk about their books, show us how the illustrations are made and sometime to act them out (with the children's help!).
Local author Julia Donaldson is a big hit with children. Her popular books include The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom and Stick Man.