Our English Curriculum Principals 

The EYFS Statutory Framework and the National Curriculum guides English planning, teaching and learning at Chandos. Our English teaching sequences allow for a balance between the teaching of technical and transcriptional skills alongside composition. At the heart of our English planning, teaching and learning, we use high quality and age appropriate texts - see the books we read in Year 1 on the right! The teaching of grammar is explicit and contextualised to the book children are reading. Explicit teaching of reading comprehension is part of the teaching sequence and daily English lesson. 

Children in Year 1 are taught to write sentences with increased independence. We aim to use modelled and shared teaching approaches throughout the teaching sequences to support all children's learning. Spelling and handwriting are taught discreetly and are planned for as part of the lesson.