Warrington School/Curriculum/English

Listening

 * 1) Be active listeners
 * 2) Recall key ideas
 * 3) Consider meaning and relevance
 * 4) Show courtesy when listening

Reading

 * 1) Develop a love of reading and respect for books
 * 2) Find and select material that is suited to personal interests, needs and capabilities
 * 3) Read a variety of material
 * 4) Read aloud with confidence and fluency
 * 5) Recall key ideas
 * 6) Seek meaning and understanding from everything that is read
 * 7) Develop strategies for working out unfamiliar words and phrases
 * 8) Develop skills of using libraries and information systems

Viewing

 * 1) Locate, select and interpret visual information from a wide range e.g. videos, pictures, charts etc
 * 2) Read, analyse, understand and critically think about messages and purposes of information presented

Speaking

 * 1) Express ideas clearly and with confidence
 * 2) Use appropriate language
 * 3) Ask and answer questions
 * 4) Recognise, appreciate, understand and respond to greetings used by other cultures
 * 5) Develop skills of conversation

Writing

 * 1) Enjoy writing
 * 2) Write for a range of purposes
 * 3) Convey ideas and information clearly, coherently and logically in writing
 * 4) Use conventions of punctuation, grammar and spelling with growing accuracy
 * 5) Proof read, edit and self correct written statements with growing skillfulness
 * 6) Spell frequently used words accurately
 * 7) Use aids to support writing e.g. dictionaries etc

Presenting

 * 1) Develop skills of effectively arranging, presenting and displaying visual and written information in a variety of formats
 * 2) Learn skills which develop legible and efficient handwriting

English Curriculum General Aims
To equip children with the necessary skills to:
 * Understand their world from the visual and aural world
 * Express themselves visually and orally
 * Make connections with others through the medium of the English language and its related visual concepts

Junior School

 * Know the letters of the alphabet
 * Increasing the bank of high frequency words
 * Spell some high frequency words and attempt unknown words
 * Use a full stop at the end of a sentence
 * Use a capital at the start of the sentence
 * Print the alphabet correctly
 * Link sounds to letters

Middle School

 * Reading a wide variety of materials
 * Consolidation of comprehension and reading strategies
 * Reading at chronological age
 * Learning techniques of different styles of writing
 * Writing for enjoyment
 * Master essential spelling lists in writing
 * Follow editing flow chart

Senior School

 * Reading from interest, encouraged to widen genres and researching.
 * Using print and digital medium
 * Reading at their age level
 * Silent reading
 * Capable of editing, improving written work
 * Confident with surface features and developing deeper features in different written forms
 * Be able to share thoughts, facts and ideas in a suitable format

English Objectives

 * English Objectives - Level 1
 * English Objectives - Level 2
 * English Objectives - Level 3
 * English Objectives - Level 4

English Indicators

 * Written Language Indicators
 * Reading Indicators
 * Visual Language Indicators
 * Oral Language Indicators