The children are taught English through a daily literacy lesson. This is organised in to several parts which include: shared reading/writing, word/sentence level work, guided reading and writing and the plenary section of the lesson.

In shared reading and writing the whole class may study a shared text or writing task. The teacher demonstrates good reading/writing skills and practices and the children contribute to this. This session involves direct teaching of reading and writing skills.

During the word/sentence level work the class will study aspects of phonics, word building, spelling, grammar, punctuation etc.

Guided reading and writing involves the teacher working with a particular group of children of similar ability on either reading or writing. This enables the teacher to give direct instruction on reading/writing and to assist individual children. While the teacher works with the group the other children are involved in group work on tasks relevant to their ability levels. The teaching assistant or another adult may assist these groups.

At the end of the above session the class will come together for the plenary. This part of the lesson allows the teacher to re-emphasise the main points of the lesson and allow the children to discuss the main points.

We do have a library which all the children are allowed to use to enable them to borrow non-fiction books.