Our English Curriculum

Our English curriculum is well-sequenced, progressive and ambitious. We aspire for all our children to leave Maple Grove as confident, thoughtful, and creative readers and writers with the tools they need to succeed.

Our reading and writing curriculum is mapped from EYFS to Year 6, meeting the aims of the Early Years Framework and National Curriculum. Expertly written resources support the teaching of phonics, reading, and writing. These resources empower teachers with the subject knowledge they need to deliver high-quality reading and writing lessons and help their workload and well-being.

Maple Grove's Literary Curriculum is a complete, thematic, book-based approach to teaching primary English that places children’s literature at its core. The Curriculum immerses children in a literary world, creating strong engagement levels to provide meaningful and authentic contexts for primary English. The scheme enables children to become critical readers and acquire an authorial style as they encounter a wide range of significant authors and a variety of fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts.

As a part of the whole-school approach, children explore over one hundred literary texts and experience at least 90 unique significant authors as they move through the school. At Maple Grove Primary School, the texts for writing and reading are mapped out across each year's group to ensure progression and coverage of the national curriculum.

Reading

Information about how we teach phonics.

When children have secured their phonics knowledge and can read fluently, they exit Little Wandle. They are taught to be confident, enquiring readers through whole-class guided reading lessons following our guided reading curriculum.

Our guided reading curriculum provides a range of sequenced activities that take children through whole books to teach reading comprehension and create critical readers. We use novels, poetry collections, and high-quality nonfiction books that connect to the Writing curriculum through themes.

More information about how we teach reading can be found here.

Writing

The book-based Writing curriculum consists of texts and themes based on a wide range of high-quality and significant children’s literature chosen to engage, challenge, and support children in becoming critical readers and confident and informed writers. All National Curriculum requirements of grammar, spelling, vocabulary, literary language, and composition are embedded, leading to a variety of purposeful and exciting shorter, longer, and extended writing outcomes where the audience and purpose are clear.

Enrichment books to support our literacy curriculum.