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English at St. Agnes Primary School

Coordinator: Miss S. Donnelly

St. Agnes' school is passionate about language and literature. We teach reading through guided reading daily, where the children are grouped into 6s and have the opportunity to work with their class teacher once per week, and the other four days are completing other reading based activities. We teach a wide variety of writing genres also.

Reading
St. Agnes also uses the Accelerated Reading Scheme - highly successful in helping the children to progress rapidly in their reading - not only enabling them to decode well, but to read for meaning. "Cracking comprehension" is also used in KS2 to teach the children the skills they need to access reading objectives and to give them the skills needed to partake in independent reading tasks/tests.

Phonics, Spelling and Grammar
In the Early Years and KS1, we use the London Borough of Tower Hamlets phonics plans to further develop reading and spelling. In KS2, we link reading to spelling and grammar using the "No Nonsense" spelling scheme.

Writing
St. Agnes teach a wide range of writing genres across the school, as well as using the London Borough of Tower Hamlets guidelines on genres to teach and end of year expectations. We also practice Pie Corbett's strategy of "Talk for Writing" to story map and commit texts to memory before embarking on independent written work. To further improve our written work, we use "Alan Peat's" sentence types and word games.



Miss S. Donnelly
English Coordinator
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Spelling Lists
Year 1,2 Spellings
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Year 3, 4 Spelling Lists
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Year 5,6 Spelling Lists
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Alan Peat - Guided Reading Question Stems - help with questioning your child during reading.
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End of Year Expectations
Y1
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Y4
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Y2
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Y5
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Y3
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Y6
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Please have a look at the information below on building vocabulary,
​taken from The School Run website here:
https://www.theschoolrun.com/how-to-build-childs-vocabulary

buiding_vocabulary_school_run_leaflet.pdf
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St Agnes Primary School   -   Rainhill Way   -   Bow   -   London   -   E3 3ER     
​Tel: 02089803076   -   email: office@st-agnes.towerhamlets.sch.uk
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    • About our School and its History
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    • Admissions
    • Equalities
    • Inclusion and SEND
    • Safeguarding
    • Policies
    • Results and Data
    • Pupil Premium
    • Sports and PE Premium
    • OFSTED
    • Vacancies
  • Curriculum
    • Thematic Curriculum
    • EYFS Curriculum
    • English Curriculum
    • Mathematics Curriculum
    • RE/PSHE AND SMSC/RSE >
      • Religious Education
      • Catholic Life of the School News Blog
  • Classes
    • Nursery Class
    • Reception Class
    • Year 1 Class
    • Year 2 Class
    • Year 3 Class
    • Year 4 Class
    • Year 5 Class
    • Year 6 Class
  • Parents
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  • Home Learning
    • NEW: Class Home Learning Blogs 2020-21 >
      • Nursery Home Learning Blog 2020-21
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      • Year 1 Home Learning Blog 2020-21
      • Year 2 Home Learning Blog 2020-21
      • Year 3 Home Learning Blog 2020-21
      • Year 4 Home Learning Blog 2020-21
      • Year 5 Home Learning Blog 2020-21
      • Year 6 Home Learning Blog 2020-21
    • Learning at Home
    • Home Learning Blogs Archive 2020
  • Staying Safe & Well
    • Mental Health Week
    • Risk Assessment
    • Government Advice and Information
    • Guide to Returning to School