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At Baldwins Gate, we follow a high-quality, book-based approach to teaching both reading and writing.
Through the use of Literacy Tree resources, we are able to enrich our pupils with language-rich and challenging texts that motivate them to consider audience and purpose, while encouraging deep thinking across a variety of genres.
We use Essential Letters and Sounds to teach phonics, and the Literacy Tree to support our teaching of both reading and writing across the curriculum.
The documents below explain how these approaches help us build strong foundations in reading and writing, ensuring our pupils leave Year 6 equipped with the essential skills they need for lifelong learning.
Our English Policy aims to foster a lifelong love of language, reading and communication through a structured, engaging and inclusive curriculum. Pupils develop the skills and confidence to become fluent readers, effective writers, thoughtful speakers and attentive listeners, while exploring a rich and diverse range of texts.
Our phonics progression map, aligned with our essential letters and sounds scheme, meticulously outlines the systematic introduction of phonemes and graphemes, ensuring a clear and structured pathway for children to develop robust decoding and encoding skills.
Our English progression map outlines a clear and sequential pathway, detailing the skills and knowledge children will acquire at each stage, ensuring consistent and effective development of English.
Our high-quality, vocabulary-rich text progression map ensures children are exposed to increasingly complex and enriching literature across all year groups, fostering a deep understanding of diverse genres and developing sophisticated reading and comprehension skills.
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