English
At Tattershall Primary School we know that by putting reading at the heart of all our learning, children will be able to enter into exciting worlds through books, improve their powerful knowledge and confidently access the curriculum we provide. We believe everyone at our school has a duty to promote reading and this begins in reception and throughout Key Stage One. We develop children’s love for books through sustained structured conversations and discussions.
Our aim is to help children develop a lifelong love for reading so we teach reading in Reception through our Systematic Synthetic Phonics Programme, Little Wandle Letters and Sounds. Children learn to decode and recognise words through daily, high quality, systematic, phonics teaching. (See link below for more information). Skills in comprehension, stamina and fluency are developed in Key Stage Two where children are taught through small group guided reading sessions.
English Genre Maps
At Tattershall Primary School we make sure our English lessons cover a wide range of genres. The Genre maps outline the genres your child will cover throughout the academic year. Please click the genre map for your child's class to see what genres they will be covering.
Phonics
At Tattershall Primary we use Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Phonics programme. The programme overview gives an insight into the phonemes and graphemes your child will learn each term through Class 1 and Class 2.
The Reading Spine
The Reading Spine is a core of books that create a living library inside a child’s minds: a store of classics and essential reads that help children engage at a deeper level and enter the world of the story, fostering a love of reading from Reception to Year 6.
Great books build the imagination. The more we read aloud expressively, and the more children are able to savour, discuss and reinterpret literature through the arts, the more memorable the characters, places and events become, building an inner world.
Reading develops the ability to think in the abstract; to follow lines of thought. Schools that have a reading spine, build a common bank of stories that bind the community together. These are shared and deeply imagined common experiences.
Class 1
Peace at Last
Elmer
Avocado Baby
Cops and Robbers
Knuffle Bunny
Elephant and Bad Boy
Dogger
Can’t you sleep Little bear
Lost and Found
Tiger Who Came to Tea
Where the wold things are
Beegu
Class 2
Not now, Bernard
Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
Owl who was afraid of the dark
Flat Stanley
Fantastic Mr Fox
Pumpkin Soup
Gorrilla
Amazing Grace
Frog and Toad Together
Traction Man is Here
Meerkat Mail
Who’s afraid of the big bad book?
Emily Brown and the thing
Flower
Willa and Old Miss Annie
Dr Xargle’s Book of Erathlets
Tuesday
Hodgeheg
Class 3
Hansel and Gretel
Cat Tales: Ice Cat
Iron Man
Sheep Pig
Lion, Witch & Wardrobe
The Abominables
Battle of Bubble and Squeak
Class 4
Firework-Maker’s Daughter
Snow-Walker’s Son
Voices in the Park
Why the whales came
Bill’s new frock
Charlotte’s web
Girl who stole an elephant
Class 5
Varjak Paw
Midnight Fox
Wolf Brother
FArTHER
Street Child
Tom’s Midnight Garden
Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Class 6
Clockwork, or, All wound up
River Boy
Arrival
The Hobbit
Holes
Fireweed
Skellig
Traditional Tales
Class 2 have been looking at Traditional Tales in English. We explored different tales to find similarities and key features of the stories and then re told The Three Little Pigs using puppets.
The Highwayman
Year 6 have been loving their learning about The Highwayman. Here is just a glimpse of their learning, when they were learning lines ready to recite.
Learing about instructions
In English class 2 have written their own version of the 'Don't Let The Pigeon' books by Mo Willems as part of their learning about instructions. They did such a good job that they wanted to share their books with class 5.
World Book Day
Class 2
Class 2 enjoyed dressing up as different characters from some of their favourite stories. We also made finger puppets of some of our favourite characters
Class 3 and Class 5
We really enjoyed sharing our favourite books with Class 5 during World Book Day. All children took it in turn to read their book and then listen carefully to their partner read.
Class 2 and Class 6
To help celebrate World Book Day class 6 and class 2 shared some of their favourite stories together
Plays
Class 5 have brought their play script learning to and end by writing a scene from Macbeth in their own style. A few of the plays were then shared amongst the Class and performed. The writers were very pleased with how their plays were performed and all actors and actresses said the plays were clear to act out. A fantastic effort by Class 5.
Learning Poetry
Class 5 children have been learning poetry off by heart. Children really enjoyed then performing their learnt poems to their peers.
