English

HOD English: Mr David Penkert

KS2 Coordinator: Mr David Penkert

KS1 Coordinator: Mrs Kate Lumley

Salcombe's English curriculum centres on assisting each child to become confident communicators who are able to express themselves creatively and imaginatively. To achieve this our teachers focus on the development of pupil skills and fluency in speaking, listening, reading and writing and foster an enjoyment of l prose, poetry, fiction or non-fiction.

There are four main strands through which the Salcombe curriculum is delivered:

• Key concepts: Competence, creativity and critical understanding;
• Key processes: Speaking and listening, reading, writing, composition and technical accuracy;
• Range and content: Speaking and listening, reading, writing;
• Curriculum opportunities: Ensuring English skills and understandings, concepts, processes are interwoven through other subject's language activities and content so that pupil learning is meaningful and engagement in learning is enhanced

Year 3: Building on the skills they have acquired in Y2, Year 3 pupils will be challenged to express themselves in a variety of media and supported in their ability to communicate effectively in the diverse areas of the curriclulm concetrating on reading for understanding, and looking at such books as 'The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark' by Jill Tomlinson.

Year 4: English studies focus on consolidation of the pupil's ability to read for meaning and understanding by honing their powers of extraction of information and broadening their knowledge of children's literature. Authors such as Roald Dahl and Michael Murprugo are studied.

Year 5: Children in this year group concentrate on the development of the pupil's powers of expression and broadening of vocabulary through investigation of varied styles and genres of writing such as narrative poetry, as in 'The Lady of Shallot', and comic verse.

Year 6: Pupils at Year 6 initially focus on preparation for the selective secondary school  examinations at 11+ years. For this they concentrate on the areas of comprehension and creative writing. Post examinations, studies broaden to include investigation of language usage in the modern world through such genre as newspapers, advertising and other such media.