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Belvedere Infant School
Our English leader is Mrs Box
At Belvedere Infant School, we promote a love of reading, writing and drama, as well as equipping children with the phonetical, comprehension, spelling, grammar and punctuation skills needed to be adept and fluent readers and writers. Literacy is covered through all subjects due to a more thematic, child centred approach, which has been introduced through the International Primary Curriculum (IPC).
Writing
From Nursery through to year 2, high quality, motivating texts are used by the class teachers as a basis for children’s writing. The children are exposed to many different genres of writing and skills are developed in order to write independently at length. Alongside this, basic skills are taught which focus on the key skills for writing – Vocabulary, Conjunctions, Openers and Punctuation. Regularly across a term, in Key Stage 1, following a progression of sessions of input and practice, children have a chance to show off the skills learnt more independently. In the Early Years, mark-making and writing opportunities form part of everyday provision, both indoors and outdoors.
CUSP Reading and Writing
As well as all of the wonderful opportunities already mentioned, from Autumn 2023, children in Key Stage 1 will use the CUSP scheme to form their English lessons which have been carefully mapped to ensure full coverage and progression from one year group to the next. CUSP has a strong focus on skills needed to ensure that our children become confident and compitent readers and writers.
Within their writing lessons children will cover a range of themes and genres while focusing on developing specific skills and within their reading lessons, children will have a suite of core texts that will form the depth study for the academic year. 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 pupil’s school journey. These texts have been mapped carefully to ensure a breadth of experiences, authors, texts and themes is addressed across the Primary years.
Below you will find an overview of both our reading and writing curriculum for years 1 and 2.
Curriculum Documents
Writing curriculum Rationale 22-23
Reading and Writing Overview
Belvedere Junior School
We are writers
Children at Belvedere Junior School are creative and imaginative writers. They will have many opportunities throughout the week to write, edit and improve. We follow CUSP reading, writing and spelling programmes. https://www.unity-curriculum.co.uk/more-information/primary/#reading&writing
Cross-Curricular Literacy Opportunities
We teach the full National Curriculum for English. The skills that children are taught in Literacy underpin all other subjects. They enable pupils to communicate and express themselves in all areas of their work. Teachers will always make cross-curricular links wherever appropriate and will plan for pupils to apply the skills, knowledge and understanding that they have acquired during Literacy to other areas of the curriculum.
