Eggbuckland Vale Primary School & Nursery
Charfield Drive, Eggbuckland,
Plymouth, Devon PL6 5PS
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Eggbuckland Vale Primary School & Nursery
Charfield Drive, Eggbuckland,
Plymouth, Devon PL6 5PS
Telephone:
E-Mail:
Here is the latest English curriculum introduced in the 2014/15 school year.
If any parents/carers wish to know more about the English curriculum they can speak to their child's/children's teacher.
For more information you can click on the link below.
Reading and Phonics
At EVPS we encourage children to have a love of books.
Children learn to read using a systematic synthetic phonics approach. Children have a daily phonics lesson from Foundation through KS1 and if necessary in KS2, ensuring children are secure in each phase before moving on to the next. A specific scheme is followed.
Reading books that come home will match the phonics that your child has mastered. After that they move onto our Accelerated Reader scheme (Renaissance Learning), which provides a huge choice of books for children, who get to use our library and its beautiful surroundings regularly. Children regularly quiz on their books to help them focus on their understanding.
Children have opportunities to read every day and it is expected that this will also be supported at home. Staff will also read to your children very frequently, and the sharing and love of books is a huge priority at EVPS. Guided group or individual reading is also an important way that we help children progress. Reading also features across the curriculum.
Reading is a taught subject throughout the school, and children continue to be challenged and supported.
The use of reading diaries to record reading is part of the homework asked of pupils, becoming more independent as they work through the school: so that by the time they are in the upper part of KS2, they are expected to be recording their reading and their understanding of the texts they have read independently.
SPELLING
The school have recently started using the SPELLING SHED spelling game and scheme. This is a fun way to ‘play’ with spellings, learn words and enjoy the puzzle that is the English language! Children use it in school, but also as part of homework.
A Guide for Reading with Your Child
Let's Share a Book
When Reading With Younger/Less Confident Readers:
When Reading With Older/More Able Readers: