English is at the heart of our curriculum at Blundeston.  We understand that being good readers and writers has a huge positive impact on the achievements across the curriculum, and beyond their years at primary school. 

Reading

We want all children to become lifelong readers and see the importance of pleasure for reading. We want them to go on adventures through a story and have that feeling of not being able to put down a good book. We also want them to see the importance of reading for information and so our curriculum always incorporates reading into lessons. Our intent, implementation and impact statements demonstrate how we teach reading at Blundeston, as well as try to instil a love of reading. 

                 

Reading Implementation: We use Little Wandle for EYFS and KS1, and whole class reading from Year 2 onwards. Reading Impact: 

Writing 

At Blundeston, we want to enthuse our children to write for a range of audiences and purposes. We choose exciting and challenging texts to engage our children in writing lessons, and where appropriate, will make links across the curriculum - see class long terms plans for more information. 

                         

 

 

 

 Letter-join Whole School Handwriting Scheme         

At Blundeston Primary School we are very proud of our pupil’s handwriting and take particular care in our handwriting style. We use Letter-join’s on-line handwriting resource and Lesson Planners as the basis of our handwriting policy as it covers all the requirements of the National Curriculum.
Handwriting is a basic skill that influences the quality of work throughout the curriculum. By the end of Key Stage 2 all pupils should have the ability to produce fluent, legible and, eventually, speedy joined-up handwriting, and to understand the different forms of handwriting used for different purposes. Our intention is to make handwriting an automatic process that does not interfere with creative and mental thinking.

All teaching staff are encouraged to model the cursive style of handwriting chosen for each year group in our school in all their handwriting, whether on whiteboards, displays or in pupils’ books.
Pupils should experience coherence and continuity in the learning and teaching of handwriting across all school years and be encouraged to take pride in the presentation of their work. Our objective is to help pupils enjoy learning and developing their handwriting with a sense of achievement and pride.

Handwriting is a cross-curricular task and is taken into consideration during all lessons. Formal teaching of handwriting is carried out regularly and systematically across all year groups.