English

At Harrold, English skills are taught daily across the school.

Spoken Language

We recognise that spoken language is very important to our pupils, Modelling appropriate and expressive speech is an integral part of our teaching, both within English lessons and across the curriculum.
We believe that spoken language skills are an intrinsic part of the writing process. A child needs to be able to say a sentence before they can write it. As such, oral rehearsal and communication around writing is carefully planned for throughout the writing process.

Reading

Reading is a core tool for life and we aim to foster a love of reading in our children. We have identified that children need to be heard reading regularly and be provided with reading opportunities across the curriculum. The school teaches and develops reading through a variety of learning strategies, using a balance of short quality texts and longer texts, such as chapter books.
Through reading, pupils are introduced to new vocabulary that can then be used in their own writing and speech. Time is spent discussing vocabulary – including the explicit teaching of unknown or technical vocabulary and investigating double-meaning words, devising strategies to read around a text for sense.
In addition, children in Reception and Key Stage 1 follow a clearly structured and easy to follow synthetic phonics programme. Our children are taught all key elements of conceptual understanding, factual knowledge, and the three essential skills of blending, segmenting and phoneme manipulation necessary to become fluent and successful readers and spellers.
It is the aim at Harrold, that by the end of KS1, all children should be able to decode quickly in order for them to be able to develop the breadth and depth of the reading and become enthusiastic readers.

Comprehension

Comprehension skills are taught across the school. All children are taught and encouraged to use a range of comprehension reading strategies that help them stay engaged and think about what they are reading The teaching of these specific skills help children to stay active while reading a passage, which leads to them being able to comprehend a text on a deeper level. This encourages children to form and express their own personal opinions and make comparisons.

Home reading

All children are provided with a choice of fiction and non-fictions books from the classroom and school library. Classroom bookcases are organised to be easily accessible. Texts linked to topics will also be displayed and made available in classes.

Writing

The key skills of composition, planning and drafting, punctuation, spelling, grammar and handwriting are taught explicitly in the context of English based lessons. In order to develop children’s writing composition and stamina, short burst writing is essential at each stage of the journey providing ample opportunities throughout a week.
Writing is linked to other topics across the curriculum that interest and stimulate the children to write in a range of genre. Children are expected to reflect on their writing and the effect and impact it has on the reader, by being able to redraft and edit. Presentation and publishing writing is important and a high standard is maintained through regular feedback within literacy sessions. Our aim is for all pupils to enjoy writing in a range of ways and have the skills embedded to succeed.

Spellings, punctuation and grammar are taught from Year 1 through to Year 6. The following document shows the end of year expectation for each year group.

 

Harrold Primary Academy Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling Overview
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Welcome to Harrold Primary Academy

I am extremely delighted and privileged to have the opportunity to welcome you to Harrold Primary Academy.
Harrold Primary Academy is a happy, caring and supportive school. The Academy was formed on the site of Harrold Lower School and Harrold Priory Middle School, opening its doors to the pupils aged 4 - 11 years in September 2017.
We are a small one form entry primary school, serving children from Reception to Year 6.


As a school, we are extremely fortunate to have a spacious school site with a Library, Science lab, Food Technology room and a team of dedicated staff who work hard to deliver exciting, engaging and enjoyable lessons for children at Harrold.


Our vision is that every child has the right to a high quality of learning, where they are treated with respect in a safe and stimulating learning environment. Children actively participate in learning by demonstrating a sense of readiness, where they take responsibility for themselves and the school environment. We help to build resilience in all our children by ensuring that the learning that they experience is a stepped approach with appropriate scaffolding and modelling in place to secure and build improved independent learning.


When children leave Harrold, they are well-equipped to continue achieving throughout secondary school and beyond.
We believe that close cooperation between home and school is essential, and we aim to keep parents as informed as possible about the progress being made by their children and ways in which they can support their children’s learning.

We look forward to welcoming you and your family to Harrold Primary Academy.

To find out more about the school, please read through our website and do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to visit the school.

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Debonair Brown

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