English
Writing
At Hillhouse, we teach writing every day, using exciting, high-quality books to inspire and shape our learning. Children develop their writing step by step, with grammar, punctuation and spelling taught naturally within meaningful contexts. Creativity and imagination are at the heart of everything we do, and rich vocabulary is introduced, practised and built upon throughout each unit. Children write a wide range of text types each term, which are carefully assessed using our own assessment framework. Our ultimate aim is for every child to feel confident, proud of their work, and to develop a genuine love of writing!
Our English curriculum is derived around a sequence of high-quality age-appropriate texts. We use each of these to: create opportunities to develop reading fluency and comprehension with a focus on key reading strategies and skills; develop grammar and punctuation knowledge and understanding to use and apply across the wider curriculum; explore the writing structure and features of different genres; identify the purpose and audience; plan and write an initial piece of writing with a clear context and purpose before evaluating the effectiveness of writing by editing and redrafting before publishing.
Reading
Children will be introduced to a range of authors and be given the opportunity to be fluent, confident readers who are able to successfully comprehend and understand a wide range of texts.
Oracy
We aim for our pupils to be competent in the arts of speaking and listening. We recognise how vital spoken language skills are for children and we want to equip them with the tools they need to be heard. We teach our children to speak clearly and confidently and endeavour to provide many opportunities to exercise this skill, such as: presenting their work, performing poetry and participating in debate.
Handwriting at Hillhouse
Handwriting Examples - KS1 and KS2
Letter Formation Practise Sheets
Writing Progression documents
Hillhouse Progression of Skills.pdf
Hillhouse Progression of Writing Genres.pdf
Hillhouse End of Year Writing Expectations.pdf