At Saint Wilfrid's we aim to provide children with a broad and balanced English curriculum which integrates speaking and listening, reading and writing skills.
To enable us to do this we have created a bespoke curriculum. It is a book-based approach designed to help teachers access high quality resources focusing on basic skills and teach through a text approach so that there is a consistent, cohesive pedagogy used across a school.
Children become critical readers and acquire an authorial style as they encounter a wide-range of significant authors and a variety of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
Book-based planning sequences allow teachers to use a wide range of high quality and significant children's literature to engage, challenge and support children to be critical readers and confident and informed writers. All National Curriculum requirements of grammar, spelling, vocabulary, literary language and composition are embedded leading towards a variety of purposeful and exciting shorter, longer and extended writing outcomes where the audience and purpose is clear.
Using DERIC we have a book-based comprehension for the teaching of reading, using whole books, rather than extracts. They are used in whole-class or guided reading sessions.