At Tudor Grange Primary Academy Meon Vale, English is at the heart of our curriculum; pushing children to become articulate communicators and deep thinkers about our world.

Reading

At Tudor Grange Primary Academy Meon Vale, we believe that for all our children to become fluent readers and writers, phonics must be taught through a systematic and structured phonics programme. We use Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised for our planning and teaching of phonics and early reading across the school.

DOWNLOAD: Phonics and Early Reading Policy

DOWNLOAD: Programme Overview – Reception and Year 1

CLICK: Parent Support Videos

Writing

At Tudor Grange Primary Academy Meon Vale, we are passionate about ensuring that every child can write and sees themselves as a writer. We strive to ensure that high-quality education in English will teach pupils to speak and write fluently so that they can communicate their ideas and emotions with others.

Our aim is to promote high standards of language and literacy by equipping pupils with a strong command of the spoken and written word. We want every child to acquire a wide vocabulary and an understanding of grammar equipping pupils with a strong command of the spoken and written word. We want every child to acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar, and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing, and spoken language, in a creative, diverse and purposeful way. We want all pupils to be able to write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting their language and style in and for a range of contexts, purposes, and audiences. We support students to progressively improve their transcription and composition skills, and from this to plan, revise, and evaluate their writing.

To enable our children to write effectively, and with clarity, we teach writing using The Write Stuff by Jane Considine. We understand that this is a schema, and not a scheme: an effective way to make the complex cognitive load required to write well simple, sticky, and explicit. Over time, children will write a broad range of fiction and non-fiction texts, from a variety of themes and inspirations.

Spellings

Please see the downloads below for a list of the statutory spellings for each year group: