English
Aims
At Hanley St Luke’s we aim to promote high standards of language and literacy by equipping pupils with a strong command of the spoken language and written word. We also wish to promote a love of reading which will support learning throughout the curriculum.
We aim to ensure that all pupils:
- read fluently with good understanding
- develop good reading habits: widely and often for pleasure and information gathering
- acquire a wide vocabulary across all subjects
- appreciate our English literary heritage write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting style for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences.
- discuss, elaborate and explain their understanding and ideas
- speak and listen effectively
Children at Hanley St Luke’s Primary School will 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 self 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; developing a growing vocabulary in relation to grammatical terminology;
- understanding a range of text types, media types and genres
- able to write in a variety of styles and forms appropriate to the situation
- using their developing creativity, imagination, inventiveness and critical awareness
- having a suitable technical vocabulary to respectfully articulate their responses in any discussion.
Here are some useful websites to support English. Please speak to your child's class teacher for log in details or for more information.