HOW OUR 4 CURRICULUM PRINCIPLES ARE REALISED AT SOUTHFIELD

Contextualised: Personal Growth:

Our English curriculum is contextualised through many visits to places of significance so that pupils can make tangible links and connections between their learning.

We value the understanding and experiences children bring to English teaching. This can be through sharing experiences of lived memories and experiences. We subscribe to Rosenblatt’s transaction theory of reading whereby a transaction takes place between the author and reader and that children bring themselves to a story.

Reception and Year 1 participate in many in school workshops related to their English topics.

Year 5 visit the Globe theatre

All children from Reception from Year 6 have a weekly drama lesson from a specialist teacher to contextualise their studies in English.

Year 4 attended Michael Rosen workshop on Poetry.

Year 5 children participate in a yearly Shakespeare project and perform to parents and schools

Author and illustrator visits to the school happen regularly

Children are encouraged through story to empathise and vicariously understand the characters and their views of the world Children engage in extended and personal narratives to construct meaning and develop as people.

Creative writing sessions are not taught nor marked for technicality but rather to encourage the development of personal narrative voices.

Class assemblies are often linked to class novels and characters and children internalise and reflect.

English lessons

Multi -layered bi-weekly picture book lessons