In our Early Years and Key Stage One, we teach phonics and early reading through a scheme called Read Write Inc. (RWI). For this, the children are taught in small groups by specially trained staff. The children are grouped by ability, and moved on rapidly in their learning, and this gives them the basic skills and teaches them how to read.

Our results for early literacy are consistently above national and local averages.

Writing is taught across the school using The Write Stuff .

The Write Stuff uses teaching sequences that slide between experience days and sentence stacking letters. With modelling at the heart of them, the sentence stacking lessons are broken into bite- sized chunks and taught under the structural framework of The Writing Rainbow.

Teachers prepare children for writing by modelling the ideas, grammar or techniques of writing.

We have a two year rolling programme from Years 1-6 that introduces a variety of texts from different genres of fiction and non-fiction. These texts provide strong examples of writing which inspire children to create their own independent pieces.

• Read Write Inc. overview
• More information about Read Write Inc.
• List of sounds to learn with your child
• Long term literacy plan

About Jane Considine