At Bosmere Community Primary School, we aim to provide an English Curriculum which inspires a love of communication and language. In addition, we aim for our children to leave primary school fully literate and articulate, and prepared for their secondary education and later life. This will be achieved through engaging lessons and unique learning opportunities, alongside the use of a range of high-quality and enjoyable texts from a diverse group of authors and illustrators.

Intent

We want our pupils to understand that reading and writing are to be enjoyed, as well as being an invaluable tool to access information and to communicate with the world. Similarly, we want our pupils to feel confident in their ability to express themselves through their writing, allowing for their thoughts and opinions to be heard. Through studying texts from a wide variety of authors, we hope to inspire our children to continue to explore and develop their reading and writing when they leave our school.

The English skills that children develop are utilised and supported in every area of the curriculum and can be directly linked with other subjects. For example, formal letter writing within English may be developed within a history topic and instructional writing could be linked to work completed in Science.

We provide challenge to children of all abilities and ensure they make good progress in all areas of the English National Curriculum.

By studying texts from a diverse range of sources, pupils are given a chance to develop culturally, emotionally, intellectually, socially and spiritually.

We intend to help children develop skills and knowledge that will enable them to communicate creatively with the world at large, through spoken and written language. We also intend to help children to enjoy and appreciate literature and its rich variety.

Implementation

Our aim is to develop children’s knowledge, skills and understanding in English. We do this through daily English lessons that have a high proportion of whole-class and group teaching.

The National Curriculum Programme of Study for English provides the overall structure and content for teaching and learning at Bosmere.  The most fundamental goal of the National Curriculum for English is for children to learn to communicate and engage with the world around them confidently and effectively. Our ambition is that pupils will learn to do so meaningfully and with purpose through the high-quality structures and strong ambition that is provided in the CUSP English provision which is being implemented from Summer 2025.

Class Teachers are trained in the research-led pedagogy that underpins the curriculum architecture of the CUSP English curriculum so that there is a consistency in approach to the delivery of the English curriculum, securing good learning progress and reducing cognitive load.