Writing
At Grangehurst Primary School, we teach English by following the Literacy Tree approach. Literacy Tree is a complete, thematic approach to the teaching of primary English that places literacy at its core. We are immensly proud of the work that our school has done and have recently been invited to write a case study for the Literacy Tree to highlight our innovative use of the book-based approach across school.
https://literacytree.com/case-studies/grangehurst-primary-school/
Literacy Tree is an award-winning platform, which immerses children in a literary world, creating strong levels of engagement to provide meaningful and authentic contexts for primary English. Children become critical readers and acquire an authorial style as they encounter a wide-range of significant authors and a variety of diverse fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
As a whole-school approach, children explore at least 100 literary texts and experience over 75 unique significant authors as they move through the school. It provides complete coverage of all National Curriculum expectations for writing composition, reading comprehension, grammar, punctuation, and vocabulary. All plans lead to purposeful application within a wide variety of written outcomes. At Grangehurst, the Literacy Tree texts are mapped out to ensure progression and National Curriculum coverage across all year groups.
Grammar and Punctuation
Grammar and punctuation is explored and taught within a real context: this is done through the use of high-quality texts, as mapped out in our Long Term Plan and on our grammar progression documents.
Grammar Progression Documents
Spelling 
In Reception, Year 1 and Year 2, children receive a daily session in phonics (also see phonics). This teaches children to hear, say, read and write the full range of sounds needed to read and write independently. Children are taught the high frequency words and common exception words.
In KS2, the children follow Monster Phonic's, 'Superhero Spelling'. A cast of superheroes and powerful memory cues help the children to learn key spelling rules and concepts. The children have three lessons each week, which consists of three core phases: Learn, Build, and Show. At the start of each week, the children receive their new weekly spelling words.
Spelling Progression Documents
