English

Reading

Our Intent – ‘Every child a reader’ At Gosford Park, reading is at the heart of all we do. We aim to instil a lifelong love of reading in every child in order to open their minds, enrich their lives and improve well-being. Through the use of carefully selected fiction and non-fiction texts, we encourage children to think critically and analytically, whilst putting an important focus on understanding
challenging vocabulary in order to unlock and support learning across the curriculum.

Our Implementation – We believe that the key to teaching children to read
and fostering a love for reading is through the use of high quality, challenging texts that inspire, ignite the imagination and bring joy and wonder. Therefore,
our reading curriculum here at Gosford Park is based on both current and classical texts that relate to our
curriculum as a whole, providing meaningful links and learning opportunities for all children. These texts celebrate the diversity of our school and wider community, enabling our children to immerse
themselves in different cultures and beliefs and to learn about other people and places. At Gosford park we are: ‘One Community, Many Cultures; Growing and Learning Together.’ 

 

Our Reading Spines at Gosford Park
Primary

At our school, each year group has a defined set of age-appropriate texts making up their reading spine. The reading spines ensure that every child has access to high quality texts
from a range of authors. This allows them to celebrate the diversity of our school and wider community, enabling our children to immerse themselves in different cultures and beliefs and to learn about other people and places. At Gosford park we are:
‘One Community, Many Cultures; Growing and Learning Together.’

Teachers use the reading spine texts to link reading comprehension and writing lessons. This allows texts to be explored in depth and for new and challenging vocabulary to be understood and used in context. As part of our writing lessons, teachers apply some ‘Talk For Writing’ strategies to these texts, allowing our children to learn, embed and internalise
the language and structures used.

Many of our reading spine books link to our topics, providing excellent opportunities for
knowledge to be applied across our curriculum. 

Reading Curriculum Overview

Reading Spine

Rainbow Reading Challenge

Reading Into Writing Plan

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VIRTUAL LIBRARY – SMSC & PSHE

 

Feel free to browse around and choose any book to read or listen to, all you have to do is click on the book cover and it will direct you to the website. These are all books to support the children’s Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) development and Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE). Enjoy! Click here! 

Writing

Our Intent – ‘Every child an author’ Here at Gosford Park, writing is an integral part of our curriculum. Children from Nursery to Year 6 are provided with many opportunities to practise and apply their writing skills across the curriculum. We believe that all of our pupils have the right to be able to express themselves, their knowledge, ideas, imaginations and
their emotions creatively and confidently through their writing. In order to help them achieve this, we aim for our children to acquire a wide, robust vocabulary, accomplished through good quality teaching and exploring texts which motivate and inspire. We want our pupils to use vocabulary precisely and effectively in order to improve all areas of their communication; listening, speaking, reading and writing. We want our learners to write accurately and coherently, therefore over their time with us, they will gain a sound understanding of grammar and be able to spell new words by effectively applying the spelling patterns and rules they will have learnt across the primary years.

By immersing our children in a range of high quality texts that make up our Reading Spines, we want our pupils to use their experiences to write in a range of styles and genres, for a range of different audiences, contexts and purposes, adapting their language and style skilfully to achieve this. Our intention is to foster our children’s interest in writing in order to create good writers who can re-read, edit and refine their writing during and after the writing process, allowing them to take important ownership of areas requiring improvement.

At Gosford Park, we set high expectations to encourage all of our children to take great pride in the presentation of their work, aiding them to develop a fluent, cursive handwriting style by the time they move to secondary school.

Most importantly, we want all children at Gosford Park to enjoy writing and leave us with the knowledge and belief that they are a competent, engaging writer as we believe that every child is an author.
Writing at Gosford Park 

Our Implementation – Our English curriculum has been thoughtfully constructed around a sequence of high quality age-appropriate texts. These books form our Reading Spines for each year group and many are closely linked to our topics. We believe that writing is strengthened by instilling a love for reading within our pupils. We value the importance of reading to supplement writing, providing a purpose and a context to writing. We believe that pupils who are provided with a reason for writing demonstrate flair and effective writing composition, leading to high quality outcomes.

“You can make anything by writing” – C.S Lewis

 

Writing Curriculum Overview

Writing into Reading Plan Year 1 and 2

Writing Plan Years 2-6

Useful links:

Spelling Shed - Spellings
Purplemash
Serial Mash
KS1 English
KS2 English
Spellingframe
CBeeBies Bedtime Stories
Topmarks - English
Alphablocks
Story Online
Oxford Owl Ebooks
Borrow Box - Online Library

Gosford Park Primary School
Humber Avenue,
Stoke,
Coventry,
CV1 2SF (if using a satnav, use postcode CV1 2DD)
Tel. 02476 223281

Email: enquiries@gosfordpark.coventry.sch.uk

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