Hurst Green Church of England Primary School & Nursery

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Hurst Green CE Primary School & Nursery

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At Hurst Green Church of England Primary School, we recognise the importance of equipping our children with literacy skills to prepare them for the future and we aspire for them to achieve excellence in reading and writing. We encourage our children to become active listeners who are confident, and have the skills, to speak aloud in a variety of contexts. As a school, we are passionate about books and together we promote a lifelong love of reading. This supports our children to become confident writers and ‘allows them to access the full curriculum on offer’ (Ofsted, 2019). We offer a language-rich learning environment and use carefully selected texts across a range of genres, immersing our children in quality literature at every opportunity: ‘The most important gift a school can give a child is the power to read.’ (Ofsted, Reading by six. How the best schools do it, 2009).

Please see below for further information about English at Hurst Green.

English Policy 2021

Progression in English

Please see the below websites to help with Phonics and Early Reading 

Phonics Play

   

Letters and Sounds

BBC Alphablocks

Oxford Owl

How do children learn phonics at Hurst Green?

Children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 have short, structured phonics lessons lastly approximately 15 minutes each day.  We follow the Government’s ‘Letters and Sounds’ programme for teaching synthetic phonics, which has 6 different phases.
Generally:

  • Nursery and Reception children cover Phases 1-3 of the programme;
  • Year 1 children cover 3-5; and
  • In Year 2 and beyond, children finish Phase 6 and move on to ‘Support for Spelling’ in KS2.

However, all children are different and we assess children regularly to see which phase they should be taught.  This may mean that they are taught by different teachers with a different group of children on some days to ensure their needs are being met and are being suitably challenged.

We use a variety of reading schemes including Project X to ensure that children read a range of different texts.  We teaching phonics using Letters and Sounds, this is supported by ‘Jolly Phonics’.

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Miss Allison Flack
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Mrs Katie Fountain

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