Here at Hawley, we believe that language and literacy are fundamental to the overall development of the child and their access to the curriculum in all its aspects. We aim to deliver quality teaching of reading, writing, oracy and spoken language skills to enable children to become confident and successful in their literacy. We follow the National Curriculum (2014) for English. We work closely with Hampshire County Council to ensure we are providing the best opportunities to develop our students' learning journeys. 

By the end of Year Six, we want all children to

• read and write with confidence, fluency, meaning and understanding;

• orchestrate a full range of reading cues (phonic, graphic, syntactic, contextual) to monitor their reading and correct their mistakes;

• understand the sound and spelling system and use this to read and spell accurately;

• have fluent and legible joined-up handwriting;

• have an interest in words and their meaning and a growing repertoire of increasingly stretching, tiered vocabulary;

• know, understand and be able to write in a range of genres in fiction and poetry, and understand and be familiar with some of the ways in which narratives are structured through basic literary ideas of setting, character and plot;

• understand, use and be able to write a range of non-fiction texts;

• plan, draft, revise and edit their own writing;

• discuss the writing of others;

• have a suitable technical vocabulary through which to understand and discuss their reading and writing;

• be interested in books, read with enjoyment and evaluate and justify their preferences;

• through reading and writing, develop their powers of imagination, inventiveness, critical thinking and develop their awareness of wider cultural and social issues and themes.

For a more detailed description of how English, including phonics, reading, writing, handwriting and spelling are taught at our school, please see the below ‘English at Hawley’ document alongside the phase curriculum overview documents which detail the skills being explicitly taught in each year group.