Click on the sections below to explore and learn more about the English curriculum at St Joseph & St Bede.

Introduction: What We Believe

At St. Joseph and St. Bede, we promote a love of reading and use this to inspire and foster a love of writing, embracing the way that these two essential strands of the English Curriculum intertwine. It is our intent that all of our children are equipped with the necessary substantive and disciplinary knowledge to become lifelong learners and successful adults. We believe the teaching of English has a significant role in empowering our children to be able to participate fully as a member of society.

  • We teach our pupils to speak, write, listen, and read fluently so that they can communicate their ideas and emotions with an ever-growing confidence.
  • We provide our children with an enriching English curriculum, enhanced through the use of cross-curricular links to develop and build upon our children’s long-term memory.
  • We adopt a fully inclusive approach to teaching and learning in English where children are both challenged and supported in their learning.
  • We utilise assessment for learning to ensure that both adults and children know how to move forward and make progress in their learning.
  • We equip children with the appropriate substantive knowledge through the use of writing lenses within the writing rainbow and our exploration of a variety of reading skills and strategies.
  • Disciplinary knowledge is developed through the teaching of writing genres and their associated features, enabling children to write a variety of pieces for different purposes with greater independence. In reading, disciplinary knowledge is shown through children reading for both pleasure and purpose.

READING

INTENT: At our school, all pupils have the opportunity to be fluent, confident readers, who are able to successfully comprehend and understand a wide range of texts with the support they receive from the teacher and in time, independently. We are ambitious for all of our pupils, of whom we want to develop a deep love of reading, a good knowledge of a range of authors, and be able to understand more about the world in which they live through the knowledge they gain from a variety of texts.

At our school pupils will:

  • Have a secure phonic knowledge, to be able to decode words confidently and read them aloud fluently.
  • Employ their phonetic knowledge to write with accuracy and build quality sentences.
  • Explore the content of a range of texts to ensure a comprehensive understanding of what they have read.
  • Become confident, enthusiastic, independent and reflective readers who develop a habit of reading a variety of texts for both pleasure and for information gathering purposes.

WRITING

INTENT: We intend that all pupils at St. Joseph and St. Bede will become confident writers who are able to write for a variety of purposes and audiences, including writing for pleasure.

At our school pupils will:

  • Become confident, enthusiastic, independent and reflective writers who develop a love of writing a variety of texts for both pleasure and purpose.
  • Have the opportunities to develop the knowledge and the content to write confidently about a particular topic (this is gained through rich discussion and experience days)
  • Have a bank of ideas for writing (facilitated by the FANTASTICS – See appendices).
  • Have a secure knowledge of the grammar necessary for writing accurately (facilitated by the GRAMMARISTICS – See appendices).
  • Be equipped with a variety of techniques to add flair to their writing (facilitated by the BOOMTASTICS – See appendices).
  • Feel supported on their writing journey, knowing who, what and where they may find the resources to enable them to write.
  • Challenge themselves to ‘deepen the moment’ in their writing.

Subject Leadership

Our English Subject Leaders are Miss Burke and Miss Myerscough.

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