English
Reading
Learning to read is the most important thing your child will learn at our school. Everything else depends on it, so we put as much energy as we possibly can into making sure that every single child learns to read as quickly as possible.
We want your child to love reading – and to want to read for themselves. This is why we put our efforts into making sure they develop a love of books as well as simply learning to read.
Guided Reading
At Bignold Primary School our Reading Curriculum is based on the CUSP Curriculum. Mrs Lawson is our Guided Reading Subject Leader.
Guided Reading is taught throughout Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. In these sessions pupils develop their reading comprehension skills.
Underpinned by CUSP Reading, our curriculum progressively develops children's skills in retrieval, inference and explanation as well as vocabulary and language development. It exposes children to high quality ambitious texts which challenge their thinking and develop their range of experience. These texts have been mapped carefully to ensure a breadth of experiences, authors, texts and themes across the primary years, including core poems that each year group will study in detail such as The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe. These texts represent a promise from the school to every pupil that it serves, of the literature that it is committed to studying throughout a pupils' school journey.
Click on the link below to view the CUSP Literature spine:
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:61011d0a-db0a-4187-9405-468b55c218c3
Children’s reading fluency is closely monitored by the class teacher and once children have completed the school’s phonics programme they will continue to bring home a reading book appropriate to their reading level.
Opportunities to develop children’s love of reading come through the use of our wonderful school library, visits to other local libraries, author visits, themed book events and the use of exciting texts across our wider curriculum.
How much reading should I do with my child at home?
Reading with your child is the most important thing you can do to support them with their school work at home. We expect our children to read 5 times a week with an adult at home. Please record any reading you do with your child in their reading record.
English
At Bignold Primary School our English Curriculum is based on the CUSP Curriculum. Mrs Lawson is our English Subject Leader.
Through our curriculum we are enabling our children to communicate information, thoughts, feelings and ideas legibly and fluently.
Our writing blocks follow a clear teaching process. The components of this cycle are evident in each unit, regardless of the length or context. In the early stages of learning to write, this might mean just a few sentences. By the time pupils reach the end of Key Stage 2, they should be able to plan, draft, execute and edit more complex texts, including sustaining and developing ideas across narrative and non-narrative text forms.
