English

EYFS and KS1 – Learning to Read

Children in the early years who are learning to read (decode) follow the Read Write Inc, synthetic phonics program. This enables them to work to decode a book appropriate for their phonic knowledge, to begin to develop reading stamina and fluency. At this point, children take part in our Oral Shared Reading program, so they can work on their comprehension skills using a shared text, read by an expert teacher.

Nursery

Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Dear Zoo	Brown Bear, Brown Bear	Ten Little Dinosaurs	The Enormous Watermelon	The Smartest Giant in Town	Whatever Next?
The Family Book	Hair Twins	The Crocodile Who Didn't Like Water	We Belong Together	The Colour Monster	Little Red Riding Hood
I Need a Wee	Aliens Love Underpants	Am I Yours?	The Little Green Hen	Elmer	You Can't Take an Elephant on a Bus
Hair Love	A Squash and a Squeeze	Two Homes	Spreading My Wings	Can Bears Ski?	Stella Brings the Family
	Mighty Maddie	Goldilocks and the Three Bears	Farmer Duck	We're Roaming Through the Rainforest	Amazing Me
	Oliver's Fruit Salad	Dinosaurs Love Underpants		Little Monkey	The Wonky Donkey
	This is Me	What Happened to You?			Look Up

Reception

Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Mr Big	The Scarecrow Wedding	National Geographic Little Kids' First Book of Dinosaurs (non fiction)	From Seed to Sunflower	Monkey Puzzle	The Day the Crayons Came Home
We're Going on a Bear Hunt	Elves and the Shoemaker	The Littlest Dinosaur	Jack and the Beanstalk	The Three Billy Goats Gruff	The Three Little Pigs
Ourselves	The Lion Inside	Donovan's Big Day	The Bad Tempered Ladybird	Slowly, Slowly, Slowly Said the Sloth	The Snail and the Whale
The Gruffalo	Seasons	Tyrannosaurus Drip	The Smeds and the Smoos	Rumble in the Jungle	My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay
My Senses	Stick Man	Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus	The Ugly Duckling	I Love Rainforsets	Transport
This is the Bear	So Much The Christmas Story	Tom and the Island of Dinosaurs	The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Yara Tawari's Tree	Everything Space
Where's My Teddy?		The Girl and the Dinosaur	How to Grow a Hyacinth / Sunflower	The Tiger Who Came to Tea	The Everywhere Bear
The Gruffalo's Child			the Little Red Hen		Mr Gumpy's Motor Car

Year One

Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Peace at Last	Room on the Broom	We're All Wonders	The Wind in the Willows	The Princess and the Pea	Peter Rabbit
Can't You Sleep Little Bear?	I Love My Hair	Lost and Found	The Lorax	Horton Hears a Who	Fantastic Mr Fox
Six Dinner Sid	Owl Babies	The Slightly Annoying Elephant	Poetry	Black Beauty
Tiddler	Winnie and Wilbur - Winnie the Witch	Where the Wild Things Are	Now We are Six	And Tango Makes 3
The Rainbow Fish	Burglar Bill	On The Way Home	The Owl and the Pussy Cat
Handa's Surprise	The Nutcracker	A Little Bit Brave	Teddy Bears' Picnic
		The Girl and the Dinosaur	Ruby's Worry

Year Two

Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Hansel and Gretel	The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark	The Day the Crayons Quit	Cliffhanger - Jacqueline Wilson	Around the World in 80 Days	The Iron Man - Ted Hughes
Wizard of Oz	Sulwe	The Climbers	Aesop's Fables - The Hare and the Tortoise	Diary of a Killer Cat
The Proudest Blue		Usborne Hercules

KS2 – Reading to Learn

Once children have been carefully assessed as having met the requirements of the phonics program, they should be able to decode any age appropriate text. At this point, children move onto our ‘Paradigm Literacy and Language program. The program allocates 3 weeks to ‘fiction writing’ such as: stories, poetry, one week to ‘journalistic writing’ such as biographies and non chronological reports and two weeks to a ‘non fiction writing’ program in which specialist teachers across the Trust have worked together to create and provide high quality texts in The Humanities and The Sciences.

	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Y3	The Fastest Boy in the World	The Twits Fables	Little Badman and the Invasion of the Killer Aunties	Toro Toro - Michael Morpurgo	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Ramaysa: a Fairy Tale Theseus and the Minotaur
Y4	Emil and the Detective The Tempest	The Boy in the Back of the Class	Matilda	Malamander	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	The Girl Who Stole an Elephant
Y5	Cirque du Freak	Holes	Goodnight Mr Tom	Wonder	Rooftoppers	Homer's Iliad and Odyssey Macbeth - Tony Ross version
Y6	Kensuke's Kingdom Journey to Jo'burg	The Enemy	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	Beowulf Romeo and Juliet	A Monster Calls	Nevermoor The Girl of Ink and Stars

KS3 – English Literature and Composition

Our secondary programme develops our students’ understanding of literature alongside their ability to write creatively. At KS3 our students read a selection of key books alongside extracts and articles to allow them to analyse and compare the writing, themes and techniques of a diverse group of authors.

	Autumn	Spring	Summer
Y7	Primary: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Secondary: Verse and prose by Emma Osborne and Jeanette Winterson	Primary: The Tempest Secondary: verse and journalsm by Holly McNish and Pam Grier	Primary: The Girl Who Became a Tree Secondary: Verse and journalism by Simar Bajaj and Tennyson
Y8	Primary: Animal Farm Secondary: Poetry and Philosophy by Maya Angelou and Marx	Primary: The Merchant of Venice Secondary: Poetry and journalism by Maya Angelou	Primary: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Secondary: Poetry and oration by Xandaria Phillips and Lupita Nyong’o
Y9	Primary: Blood Brothers Secondary: Prose by Lynn Reid Banks and Simone De Beauvoir	Primary: Romeo and Juliet Secondary: Prose by Maggie O’Farrell and Margaret Atwood	Primary: Long Way Down Secondary: Poetry and journalism by Kae Tempest and Emma Forde