English

At St Paul’s, we believe that English has a pre-eminent place in education and society. Our high-quality education in English teaches pupils to speak and write fluently so that they can communicate their ideas and emotions to others and through their reading and listening, others can communicate with them.

All the skills of language are essential to participate fully as a member of society, ensuring access to curriculum subjects, and future and lifelong learning.

Reception

Autumn Term

Reception children wrote initial sounds, words and phrases based on their Core Texts ‘Whatever Next’ and ‘Room on the Broom’.

Year 1

Autumn Term

Year 1 children retold their Core Text ‘Lost and Found’.

Year 2

Autumn Term

Children in Year 2 retold their Core Text ‘I am Rosa Parks’. They also researched and created fact files about significant people from the past.

Year 3

Autumn Term

Children created their own myths based on their Core Text ‘Greek Myths’.

Year 4

Autumn Term

Using their Core Text ‘Escape from Pompeii, Year 4 wrote accounts of their own escape from the erupting Mount Vesuvius.

Year 5

Autumn Term

Year 5 used their Core Text ‘Journey to Jo’burg’ to write a letter from the viewpoint of the main character, Naledi, at the end of the story when she realised some of the consequences of apartheid on her life.

Year 6

Autumn Term

After studying their Core Text ‘Viking Boy’, Year 6 wrote some fabulous openings of their own Viking legend.