English

English

At St Cuthbert Mayne, we are committed to providing an exciting, engaging and progressive English curriculum for our children. We aim to foster within our pupils a love of Literature through widespread reading and a strong command of the written language in all its forms. Our school believes that every child should receive a rich experience of English and should be fully equipped with the required skills to read and write fluently, comprehensively and confidently. We nurture the transferability of these skills, which allow children to access material in all curriculum areas, creating a foundation for their wider learning and enabling high quality responses to work in all subjects. Throughout the school, the pupils’ teaching and learning is centred on a series of core texts. These are chosen purposefully to enhance their experience of Reading and Writing with the vision that every child will have completed and accessed a broad selection of high-quality books during their time here.

Essential skills will continue to develop in KS2 where children’s reading development will heavily impact on the quality of their writing. They will need to show they can consistently apply sophisticated punctuation and sentence structures to a variety of text-types, whilst developing a writing style which engages the reader. The skills of planning, editing and re-drafting will continue to be taught however the emphasis will be placed on children being able to do this more independently and whilst they write.

Subject Vision

 English Subject Vision, including Curriculum Map and Skills Progression