English | Anston Hillcrest

Here, you will find details about the National Curriculum for English how we integrate English into our learning journeys at Anston Hillcrest Primary School.

Our Goals

At Anston Hillcrest, we aim to nurture a deep appreciation for language and communication through our English curriculum, which emphasises reading, writing, and oracy. We strive to develop confident and articulate communicators, growing a love for reading and enabling children to explore diverse texts that broaden their understanding of the world. Our writing curriculum encourages creativity, clarity, and accuracy, helping pupils express their ideas with purpose and precision. We also place a strong focus on oracy, promoting effective speaking and listening skills to enhance dialogue, debate, and collaboration. Through these core elements, we equip children with the English skills essential for lifelong learning and success.

Why?

Our English curriculum enriches children's educational experience by equipping them with essential skills in reading, writing, and oracy for success both in school and beyond. Developing literacy, confidence in communication, and a love for language is vital to their holistic development. Our curriculum develops a deep understanding of texts, encouraging children to become thoughtful readers and expressive writers. Through a focus on oracy, children build strong speaking and listening skills, enabling them to articulate ideas clearly and engage in meaningful discussions.

National Curriculum English

Our English Curriculum

Adaptations

Our English reading curriculum for disadvantaged children, including those with SEND is adapted through the use of visual aids, audiobooks, and multi-sensory reading activities. Interactive story sessions, such as using props and puppets, engage children and bring texts to life. Simplified texts, visual prompts, and targeted reading strategies, like phonics games, support comprehension and fluency, ensuring all children can enjoy and participate in reading.

Our English writing curriculum for disadvantaged children, including those with SEND is adapted through the use of word banks, and visual prompts to support the generation of children's ideas.

Children, where this is necessary, have access to adapted resources that ensure the highest levels of independence.

Multi-sensory activities, such as using sand or clay for letter formation, enhance fine motor skills. Simplified writing tasks, structured templates, and collaborative writing projects encourage self-expression and confidence, ensuring all children can develop their writing abilities effectively.

English Curriculum

Books, books, books

This is intended to offer our children a core bank of texts that ensures they experience a range of high-quality texts and authors during their time at school. We have identified a selection of quality core texts for each year group for each topic taught. The texts are made up of a range of text types, including fiction, non-fiction and poetry.

Teachers use these in a range of ways, as whole-class texts to share, during guided reading or whole-class reading lessons, as part of their literacy lessons and in connection with our topics. We have ensured that the texts we have chosen are engaging and encourage enjoyment of reading.

Here are just some of the books children will read or be exposed to throughout school. These are enhanced through other subject areas including our No Outsiders book collection too.