English
Leader: Vee Hopkins
We recognise that English plays an essential role in the children’s
development, since it permeates all areas of the curriculum.
We are keen advocates of the National Literacy Strategy and feel that the thorough planning and skills development it stands for will benefit the children enormously. We attempt to model good examples of both reading and writing, thus teaching children the rich variety of the English Language.
We encourage self-expression and independence from a very early age, as well as the need to listen carefully to others and to consider responses. We value drama as a vehicle for developing confidence in this area.
Considerable emphasis is placed on reading development with the Oxford Reading Tree scheme providing the main backbone for progression. We have an extensive library, in which are housed a wide range of modern fiction and non-fiction books, to which the children have constant access.
We have a shared reading policy, which means that we encourage reading and comments from home, made in a reading record booklet.
During their time in school the children will develop their writing skills from the emergent ‘marks on paper’ to detailed stories, reviews, letters, descriptions and reports, showing a confident use of vocabulary. We treat spelling seriously and children are exposed to a number of strategies throughout their time at school to develop abilities for using the written word.
Once a child has begun to write we expect high standards of presentation and give the children appropriate materials to complete their tasks.
Langham Village School book bags are available from the office at £4.00 each.
