--- title: "English" url: "https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/curriculum-information/english" school: "St Stephen's Kearsley Moor CofE Primary School" --- # English ## **English** **![](https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/images/menu/English(1).jpg)** #### Sound English skills are essential for progress across the curriculum and to prepare pupils effectively for tasks of adult life. All teachers have a responsibility to develop pupils' competence in reading, writing, speaking and listening in their own subjects and to ensure that pupils become competent users of language, and can access the curriculum effectively and achieve their potential.![](https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/images/menu/Books.jpg) #### St Stephen's (Kearsley Moor) CE Primary School: - #### Recognises the effect a confident, fluent and coherent understanding of English will have on a pupil's progress, both inside and outside of the school environment. - #### Understands how a strong grounding in English will impact the future learning and development of a pupil in all aspects of life. - #### Provides a balanced and broad curriculum which encompasses writing practice, including handwriting, spelling, widening vocabulary, and writing for different styles, purposes and audiences, as well as focusing on spoken English, reading, grammar and pronunciation. - #### Ensures all staff members are aware of planning, assessment, teaching and learning requirements for the English curriculum. - #### Ensures all pupils know how to plan, practise and evaluate their work. - #### Ensures all pupils understand all elements of English, as per the National Curriculum. ### Reading Intent #### At St Stephen's, we believe our English curriculum should develop our children's love of reading. We have a whole school culture we want all children to read well, quickly. We value reading as a key life skill, and are dedicated to enabling our pupils to become lifelong readers. Our reading resources will offer our children stimulating, vocabulary rich and awe-inspiring content, which will develop outward looking pupils who are able to engage in learning about themselves and raise awareness of national and global issues. #### Our reading curriculum supports our children's skills in decoding words so they can read well, quickly in line with National Curriculum Standards following the 'Essential Letters and Sounds'. The ELS programme is a complete systematic synthetic phonics programme (SSP). We will present our children with plentiful opportunities to read for pleasure and purpose; and enable them to make choices about books based on a specific author or genre. In addition, we aim to ensure all children gain a good understanding of what they have read and will use VIPERS skills to fully embed this level of comprehension. ### Writing Intent #### At St Stephen's, we believe our English curriculum should allow our children to confidently communicate their knowledge, ideas and emotions through their writing. Our pupils will understand and use a wide variety of vocabulary and understand the purpose of their writing. They should be able to adapt their writing for the genre they are writing in and with a knowledge of who they are writing for. They will also be confident spellers and use a range of grammatical features to enhance their writing style. Our children should be encouraged to take pride in the presentation of their writing, in part by developing a good, joined, handwriting style by the time they move to secondary school. #### ### English Policy English Policy 328 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/ststephenskm/files/documents/English_Policy_2023_-_NEW.doc) ### Pathways to Write Information Pathways to Write Information 64 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/ststephenskm/files/documents/Pathways_to_Write_website_info_-_TO_GO_ON_WEBSITE.docx) ### Pathways to Write Overview of Objectives EYFS 140 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/ststephenskm/files/documents/Overview_of_objectives_EYFS.pdf) Overview of Objectives Year 1 146 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/ststephenskm/files/documents/Overview_of_objectives_Y1.pdf) Overview of Objectives Year 2 127 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/ststephenskm/files/documents/Overview_of_objectives_Y2.pdf) Overview of Objectives Year 3 129 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/ststephenskm/files/documents/Overview_of_objectives_Y3.pdf) Overview of Objectives Year 4 130 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/ststephenskm/files/documents/Overview_of_objectives_Y4.pdf) Overview of Objectives Year 5 133 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/ststephenskm/files/documents/Overview_of_objectives_Y5.pdf) Overview of Objectives Year 6 133 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/ststephenskm/files/documents/Overview_of_objectives_Y6.pdf) ### **Writing Pupil Voice** **![](https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/images/Year6/Word_Art_(002).png)** ### Reading at St Stephen's ### Supporting Reading Supporting Reading 353 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/ststephenskm/files/documents/Supporting_Reading_at_St_Stephen(1).docx) ### Reading Vipers Bookmark Reading Vipers Bookmark 265 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/ststephenskm/files/documents/Vipers_bookmark.pdf) ### Top Tips Top Tips 649 KB [Open for printing](https://files.schudio.com/ststephenskm/files/documents/Top_Tips.pdf) ### Reading for Pleasure Pupil Voice ![](https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/images/Year6/Word_Art.png) ### Curriculum Information - [Curriculum Information](https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/curriculum-information) - [Religious Education](https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/curriculum-information/religious-education) - [Maths](https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/curriculum-information/maths) - [English](https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/curriculum-information/english) - [Phonics & Early Reading](https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/curriculum-information/phonics-and-early-reading) - [Science](https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/curriculum-information/science) - [Art](https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/curriculum-information/art) - [Computing](https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/curriculum-information/computing) - [Design & Technology](https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/curriculum-information/design-and-technology) - [Geography](https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/curriculum-information/geography) - [History](https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/curriculum-information/history) - [MFL](https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/curriculum-information/mfl) - [Music](https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/curriculum-information/music) - [Physical Education](https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/curriculum-information/physical-education) - [PSHE](https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/curriculum-information/pshe) ![St Stephen's Kearsley Moor CofE Primary School](https://files.schudio.com/ststephenskm/images/logo/Logo_Linear_white.png) **St Stephen's Kearsley Moor CofE Primary School** Bent Spur Road Kearsley Bolton BL4 8PB URN: 105240 DFE: 350/3354 UKPRN: 10068696 Tel: 01204 333 642 [Parent View](https://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/) [National Curriculum](https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/425601/PRIMARY_national_curriculum.pdf) [Easyfundraising](http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/) [Sumdog](http://www.sumdog.com/) [Bolton Council](http://www.bolton.gov.uk/home/Pages/default.aspx) [DfE](https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education) [Bolton Carer Consortium](https://www.boltonparents.org.uk/) [Anxiety UK ](https://www.anxietyuk.org.uk/) © Copyright 2014–2026 St Stephen's Kearsley Moor CofE Primary School School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://ststephenskm.schudio.com/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)