At LJS, we strive to provide the very best learning opportunities for our pupils. Our English Curriculum embraces a whole school approach to the teaching of English that places children’s literature at its core.
Writing @ LJS
Over the four years a pupil spends at LJS, they will explore at least 48 literary texts and experience at least 40 unique significant authors as they move through the school.
Using a book as a stimulus, the pupils will learn the fundamental skills of writing composition, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary, as well as coverage of spelling, phonics and reading comprehension which will be applied within a wide variety of written outcomes in line with the expectations of the National Curriculum.
Take a look at the books we will be covering this year:
Subject |
Y3 Term 1 |
Y3 Term 2 |
Y3 Term 3 |
Y3 Term 4 |
Y3 Term 5 |
Y3 Term 6 |
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English |
The First Drawings |
Leon and the Place Between |
The BFG |
The Tear Thief |
The Pied Piper of Hamelin |
Escape from Pompeii |
Cinderella of the Nile |
TBC |
TBC |
Subject |
Y4 Term 1 |
Y4 Term 2 |
Y4 Term 3 |
Y4 Term 4 |
Y4 Term 5 |
Y4Z Term 6 |
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English |
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
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Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
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FaRther by Grahame Baker Smith |
Until I met Dudley Roger McGough |
Winter’s Child by Angela McAllister |
The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde |
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis |
The Lion and the Unicorn by Shirley Hughes Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll |
Subject |
Y5 Term 1 |
Y5 Term 2 |
Y5 Term 3 |
Y5 Term 4 |
Y5 Term 5 |
Y5 Term 6 |
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English |
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Modicai Gerstein |
Robot Girl by Malorie Blackman |
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
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Hidden Figures |
The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan
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The Lost Happy Endings by Carol Ann Duffy
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TBC Freedom Bird |
TBC Kasper |
TBC |
Subject |
Y6 Term 1 |
Y6 Term 2 |
Y6 Term 3 |
Y6 Term 4 |
Y6 Term 5 |
Y6 Term 6 |
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English |
The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce |
The Arrival by Shaun Tan |
The Promise by Nicola Davies
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Can We Save the Tiger? by Martin Jenkins |
Suffragette: The Battle for Equality by David Roberts |
The Boy in the Tower by Polly Yo-Hen
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The Beautiful Lie by Irfan Master |
The Three Little Pigs Project by The Guardian |
Click on a year group to see some of this year's wonderful English work.
Sadly, our academic year 2019-2020 was cut short by COVID-19. Here is the fantastic work our pupils achieved last year in English - Click on the terms below:
Year 3 English 2019-20 Autumn Term Spring Term
Year 4 English 2019-20 Autumn Term Spring Term
Year 5 English 2019-20 Autumn Term Spring Term
Year 6 English 2019-20 Autumn Term Spring Term
Reading @ LJS
At LJS, we prioritise children having access to high-quality fiction and non-fiction texts to establish a love of reading that we hope will last throughout their lives.
Reading for pleasure is at the forefront of our curriculum. Every week, children have time to read, discuss, share and critique what they have been reading. Children are read aloud to daily and each class has a class reader - a book for children to simply listen and enjoy. Fluency and reading stamina is developed across all areas of the curriculum.
Take a look at some of the books the children are reading across the school:
Year 3 Year 5
Year 4 Year 6
VIPERS
Vocabulary, inference, prediction, explain, retrieval and summarise (sequence in Y3) is used by all.
Teachers plan questions based on these domains, which are presented in a variety of ways to ensure skills are embedded.
Teachers model ‘thinking out loud’ process, orally running through the skills needed to answer questions, referencing success criteria and verbalising answers before writing anything down.
Spelling at LJS
At LJS, we want our pupils to be confident spellers: applying their spelling knowledge and skills to their everyday writing.
In September 2020, we introduced the RWI Spelling programme: a robust, consistent and progressive spelling curriculum for all of our pupils, building upon a sound phonic knowledge. Click on the RWI Spelling logo below for more information.
In addition, we use the Spelling Shed App to support children's spelling. Every pupil has their own log in details. Click in the image to find out more about Spelling Shed.
LJS Book Advent 2021
This year, we were really excited to open a new book (or sometimes even two!) for our class reading areas for every school day in December. Children have loved discovering new books and authors and have already begun taking them home to read. We looking forward to hearing about what the children think!
Stay tuned for more book drops throughout the year!
National Poetry Day 2021
We celebrated National Poetry Day 2021 with different activities across the school. Year 3, 4 and 5 watched some performance poetry and then wrote 'Dream Day' poems of their own. Year 6 wrote and performed their own poems inspired by a woodland theme. The children really loved hearing a range of poetry from Benjamin Zephaniah, Spike Milligan, Valerie Bloom, Julia Donaldson and many more! Take a look at some of the children's work...
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