English
At Sarisbury Infant School, we believe in providing our children with a language rich English Curriculum. As a school we aim to develop a love for reading and writing.
Literacy is children’s gateway to learning and develops their ability to listen, speak, read and write within the whole school curriculum.
At the heart of our English curriculum is speaking and listening. We firmly believe children need to be able to articulate their ideas before they write them. Children are taught speaking and listening skills in a variety of ways and all our English lessons contain speaking and listening. This is done in a variety of ways; drama, oral stories, Shipmate and group work and discussion about Wondering Walter's words.
As a school, we follow the programme of study outlined in the National Curriculum for reading and writing. Click here to access the English National Curriculum. To assess and track where children are in their learning teachers use the Hampshire Assessment Model. At the end of Early Years teachers assess pupils using the Early Years Framework. Children in year 1 are required to undertake a statutory phonics screening check. At the end of year 2 pupil's will complete end of key stage tests. These consist of two reading papers and a spelling, punctuation and grammar paper. Teachers will use these tests, their professional judgement and the End of Key Stage Teacher Assessment Framework to judge a pupils level at the end of year 2.
Harri Heart helps us keep safe in English by reminding us how to look after books carefully in the book corner and the library. We always put our books away carefully and treat them with respect. We also use Harri Heart when we are reading books about keeping safe and being kind to others.
Long Term Plan
Please look at the document below for the English Long Term Plan.
Sarisbury Infant School English Long Term Plan 2022
Year Group | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
Year R | Starting School/Getting to know you/Rules/ Friendships Phase 1 environmental sounds Phase 2 start No word books – encouraging language Mark making
| Autumn changes/ People who help us/ Nursery Rhymes/Nativity Phase 1 ongoing/Phase 2/Phase 2 Assessment Modelling blending – Bug club Begin Helicopter stories Mark making; dominant sounds; word building
| Julia Donaldson focus Phase 3/Phase 2 recap/Phase 1 Rhyming strings Characters/Character descriptions Features of non-fiction Word writing; Simple phrases/sentences/ adjectives
| New beginnings/ Spring/Life cycles/ Growing Phase 3/Phase 2 recap/Phase 1 Phase 3 Assessment Settings of stories Word writing; Simple phrases/sentences/ adjectives Handwriting – let’s get ready to write (zig zag monster) | Traditional Tales/ Feelings Phase 3 recap/Phase 4/ Phase 2 recap Retelling stories/alternative endings Sentence writing – extending sentences; conjunctions; different sentence starters Differentiated phonic groupings – sentence level work | All creatures great and small Phase 4/ Phase 3 recap Phase 2 recap Application of sounds Sentence writing – extending sentences; different sentence starters
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Year 1 | Text Driver: Three Little Pigs Jack and the Beanstalk Outcome: story telling/settings/ Descriptions Poem: Seas of learning
| Text Driver: Owl Babies Nocturnal animals The Gunpowder Plot Outcome: fact files Poem: Remember, Remember | Text Driver: Lost and Found The Great Explorer Outcome: newspaper article Poem: I’m a little Snowman | Text Driver: Man on the moon Q Pootle 5 Outcome: recount Poem: Planet Roll Call | Text Driver: Billy and the dragon Sir Scaly pants the dragon knight Outcome: story telling/settings/ Descriptions Poem: Hairy Scary Castle
| Text Driver: Percy the Park keeper The Growing Story Outcome: instructions Poem: A Little Seed
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Year 2 | Text Driver: Dear Teacher/Little Red Riding Hood Outcome: Wanted Poster Poem: Dear Mrs Butler | Text Driver: Christmasaurus Outcome: Instructions/Character Description Poem: Twas the Night Before Christmas | Text Driver- The Journey/Aladdin (digital) Outcome: Narrative Poem: The Owl and the Pussycat | Text Driver: A Walk in London Outcome: Recount/ Newspaper article Poem: 1666 | Text Driver: Narnia and Faraway Tree School Trip Outcome: Descriptive Narrative/Recount Poem: Lion Celia Warren | Text Driver: Running Shoes/Human Body Non-fiction books Outcome: Narrative recount/fact files Poem: This is Where |
Reading Spine
This is our reading spine chosen by our teachers. These are the books that every child in our school will be exposed to during their three years here. The books chosen are much loved classics, diverse and we believe will help develop a child's love of reading. Each classroom will have two copies of the text in their book corner that the children can read themselves again and again.