Aims

We strive to deliver a high-quality education in English to enable our pupils to perform to the highest standard possible. The National Curriculum for English aims to ensure that all pupils:

• read easily, fluently and with good understanding
• develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information
• acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language
• appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage
• write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting their language and style in and for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences
• use discussion in order to learn; they should be able to elaborate and explain clearly their understanding and ideas
• are competent in the arts of speaking and listening, making formal presentations, demonstrating to others and participating in debate

At Noak Bridge we use Jonathan Bond’s The English Kit 2020 as our curriculum. This is an English curriculum and assessment system which enables us to plan, deliver and assess English coherently and effectively. It is based on the 2014 Primary National Curriculum for English and contains all the content of that document.

The heart of The English Kit 2020 is the core curriculum (see below and select the year group icon you require).

The 2014 Primary English Curriculum provides limited progression and broad objectives. This document provides smaller learning steps based on these and a more detailed progression. Furthermore it suggests additional objectives which go beyond the National Curriculum.

All objectives derived from the National Curriculum or the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage are typed in black. Additional objectives are typed in purple. Teaching both lead to a more rounded and complete English curriculum for our school.

Objectives which directly contribute towards the Early Learning Goals or the statements in the Teacher Assessment Frameworks appear in bold. Key objectives are underlined. These are the most important objectives in each year group. They must be mastered in the year group in which they appear.

Following the structure of the National Curriculum, our curriculum is divided up into four key areas. It is then subdivided into sixteen strands:

In the complex area of reading comprehension, there are twelve sub-strands:

For teaching writing, we use The English Unit Kit. This teaching programme provides our daily units of work from Year 1 to Year 6 and aids teachers in planning and teaching their daily English lessons. It links directly to ‘The English Kit 2020’ and pulls learning objectives directly from that document. It gives us a clear progression and lesson outlines for teaching writing, grammar, punctuation, spoken language and spelling.