English

The English curriculum at Trinity Academy St Chad’s is designed to give pupils the knowledge and skills needed to become confident communicators who can express their ideas both verbally and in the written form. The study of English gives pupils the opportunity to master the skills of reading early on through the ability to understand phonics and decode.

Reading a variety of literature opens up the world to pupils, often providing them a different point of view or experience and therefore enabling them to develop culturally and emotionally and gain a lifelong love of reading.

The English curriculum at Trinity Academy St Chad’s delivers the national curriculum aims and beyond; knowledge is structured so that each term and year build upon one another and ensures pupils gain the essential knowledge within the areas of vocabulary building, phonics acquisition and grammatical understanding. Pupils simultaneously develop their knowledge of oracy and accuracy; presenting and speaking for different purposes and audiences. High quality texts are used to teach pupils how to appreciate and imitate a writer’s craft. Through modelling, pupils develop their understanding of authorial choices, consider the impact on the reader and develop their ability to apply this to their own work.

The curriculum and selected rich texts not only give pupils access to the best that has been thought and said, but also offer a wide range of viewpoints on the world through the breadth of genres, cultures and diverse themes represented.

The depth of knowledge gained will give pupils the strong foundations for further learning, enabling them to be confident communicators who can participate fully in a wide range of situations. This will not only broaden pupils’ career prospects but also their future wellbeing through the contributions that pupils can make to society.