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English

Learning in English across the school...

Welcome to the English Page!

Keep up with all the amazing learning in English through your child's Seesaw and also our school Facebook page.

The area of English is made up by the three areas of reading, writing and spoken language. Basic skills in this area are fundamental to our pupils in preparing them for life after Longcause and we place upmost importance on developing and extending these skills in purposeful and realistic ways.

As a working group, we developed our current English curriculum from the 2014 National Curriculum covering outcomes from P Scales through to GCSE. This curriculum takes account of the way in which our pupils learn and we have developed a system where we can recognise every step of progress our pupils make. And they make great progress!!

(for more information on this, please see our curriculum and assessment policy - https://www.longcausespecialschool.com/policies/)

To ensure coverage of all of the text types in the National Curriculum we have developed a coverage map for English in Lower, Middle and Upper school. Please see these individual pages for more information on this and how we teach English in these areas.

In addition to English learning across the curriculum, English sessions take place daily. Pupils also engage in reading based learning on a daily basis; we teach phonics to support pupils with reading, as well as shared reading and individual reading. We provide a wide range of reading materials to support pupils with their reading, including fiction and non fiction, and fully decodable and non-decodable texts. Reading is a whole school priority and we measure progress in reading in several ways to get a much more accurate picture of each child as a reader.

At KS4 pupils follow a Functional approach to English and Year 11 pupils will leave with an accredited outcome in English Functional Skills which will range from Entry Level 1 through to Level 2.

English News!

Keep up to date on what's happening in English!

Further success at Key Stage 4 with 2 Year 11 pupils achieving well in GCSE English. Also all of our Year 11 pupils achieved Functional Skills English between entry level 2 and Level 2 (2 pupils at EL2, 6 pupils at EL3, 6 pupils at Level 1 and 3 pupils at Level 2) - Fantastic!

The theme for this year's Writing Week was Biographies and using questions to find out information about someone else. You will have seen some of outcomes from this week on Seesaw and on our school Facebook page.

Previously we have covered themes such as Playscripts were pupils created and acted out their own Longcause dramas; 'All About Me', where pupils contributed towards a 50th Anniversary book with each page being about a pupil at Longcause 50 years on from its first day, and 'British Values'.

Longcause School Book Fair: 22nd September -29th September. Thank you - we raised over £200 in the end!

Thank you for your Book Fair purchases - look what we achieved!

Phase 2 video to support teaching through letters and sounds

Phase 3 video to support teaching through letters and sounds

Phase 4 video to support teaching through letters and sounds

Phase 5 video to support teaching through letters and sounds

Here you can find useful resources to support your child's progression in Phonics following the Letters and Sounds scheme:

Letters and Sounds This is the Phonics programme we follow throughout the school. Pupils are working within one of the six different phases

Phonics games This site is filled with games to consolidate and practise skills at each Phase of the 'Letters and Sounds' programme.