English

At Rowlatts Mead, our English curriculum is designed to immerse children in a rich and engaging language experience, fostering a lifelong love of reading, writing, and oracy. We use a novel-based approach to capture children’s imaginations, allowing them to explore texts deeply and apply their learning in meaningful contexts. Grammar lessons are contextualised, enabling pupils to use grammatical features accurately and confidently within their own writing.

A key focus of our curriculum is handwriting and spelling, with every class practicing handwriting three times a week and spelling three times a week. This ensures that children develop legible, fluent writing and accurate spelling from an early age, forming a strong foundation for effective communication.

As children progress through the school, they are encouraged to view writing as a powerful means of self-expression, a creative form of communication, and a tool to write for a wide range of purposes. Pupils develop the stamina and skills to write at length, with increasing accuracy in spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

Our curriculum explores a variety of writing types, including narratives, explanations, persuasion, descriptions, comparisons, summaries, and evaluations. We balance these with short, spur-of-the-moment writing opportunities to make writing fun, purposeful, and stimulating.

Through this approach, we aim to nurture children who are confident, expressive writers, enthusiastic readers, and articulate speakers—preparing them to be lifelong communicators and critical thinkers in an ever-changing world.

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