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Home / The Esh Winning Curriculum / Curriculum Content / Curriculum – English

Curriculum – English

In this section of the website, you will find information about our approach to teaching English at Esh Winning Primary School.  

  • The Intent provides information on the relevance of English and why we teach English in this way at Esh Winning Primary School.  .
  • The Implementation of English outlines how teachers at Esh Winning Primary School teach English across school from Nursery to Year 6.
  • The Impact details the evidence collected to ensure the intent is realised and the implementation is successful across school.
  • The Progression of English outlines what progression looks like across the school.
  • The Whole School Initiatives section provides further information on the opportunities there are to engage with and deepen learning in English.

Intent of English

Purpose of Study

English has a pre-eminent place in education and in society. A high-quality education in English will teach pupils to speak and write fluently so that they can communicate their ideas and emotions to others, and through their reading and listening, others can communicate with them. Through reading in particular, pupils have a chance to develop culturally, emotionally, intellectually, socially and spiritually. Literature, especially, plays a key role in such development. Reading also enables pupils both to acquire knowledge and to build on what they already know. All the skills of language are essential to participating fully as a member of society; pupils who do not learn to speak, read and write fluently and confidently are effectively disenfranchised.

(Statutory Guidance - National curriculum in England: English programmes of study Updated 16 July 2014 )

Intent

At Esh Winning Primary School, we recognise that teaching and learning in English is an essential part of the whole development of all children, including SEN and disadvantaged children, for their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. The teaching of English is broken into three strands - Reading, Writing and Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar, with reading being the key to developing the other skills together with skills and knowledge development across all other curriculum subjects. Our intent is to create lifelong readers. We want to improve the links with reading at home and for pleasure. We want to provide the children with the skills they need as early as possible in speaking and listening. By doing this the children will be confident in sharing their views and opinions. It enables them to express themselves creatively and imaginatively and to communicate effectively.

At Esh Winning Primary School, we want all pupils to leave Year 6 reading and writing with confidence, fluency and understanding, using a range of independent strategies to take responsibility for their own learning, including monitoring and correcting their own errors; with a love of reading and a desire to read for enjoyment; with an interest in words and their meanings.

We teach English – both reading and writing – daily from Reception class to Year 6 and base the content of our curriculum on National Curriculum guidelines.

Implementation of English
Impact of English
Subject Progression
Subject Whole School Initiatives

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