Learning

Our Landewednack English curriculum follows the National Curriculum and is enriched through opportunities for poetry recitation, talk for writing, reading for pleasure and cross-curricular reading and writing. Each class has a daily Literacy lesson with further opportunities to develop reading, writing and spoken language skills throughout the day. Spelling and handwriting skills are developed through frequent practise. We attach great importance to the spoken word and the ability to listen and are further developing our oracy planning with the Kernow Talks Oracy Project. Children learn to write for a variety of purposes; have the chance to explore a range of high quality texts and are encouraged to take books home to enjoy and share.

The Write Stuff

We use The Write Stuff approach to teaching writing.

Ever year the children in Years 1-6 have a 1 hour "Write Stuff" lesson, in which they learn to write using different "lenses" from the Writing Rainbow.

The Write Stuff approach is are introduced in Reception through the "Fantastic Foundations" approach.

The children have the opportunity to write independently across a range of genres

Some of our fantastic writing:

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Year 3 Letter writing in the style of "The Day the Crayons Quit"

Phonics

Phonics is an important foundation of reading. Phonics is a method for teaching the reading and writing by demonstrating the relationship between the sounds of the spoken language (phonemes), and the letters or groups of letters (graphemes) of the written language.

Phonics is taught explicitly from Nursery to Year 2 using the scheme Read Write INC.

Writing