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.
Click here for our Long Term Plan
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.
Click here for our 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.
At Grangehurst we are using Superhero Spelling to support children’s spelling in KS2.
The Superhero Spelling Programme is an engaging and dynamic resource that covers the full scope of the 2014 Spelling Curriculum, ensuring your child meets all Key Stage 2 spelling requirements.
Designed to build on phonics knowledge, it embeds essential spelling rules through fun and memorable activities led by a cast of superheroes and powerful memory cues. Each lesson is interactive, with a mix of age-appropriate activities that promote active learning. Children also benefit from partner work and talk time to reinforce their learning.
Discover our fun cast of superheroes here: https://youtu.be/WjXCAOagkf8
To see details of each year group overview click here - Year group spelling overviews
