English and Reading statement

English at St. Kenelm’s C.E Primary School

We are committed to developing English skills through uniting the important skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening through an engaging curriculum. We believe that developing a good literacy understanding is a fundamental life skill.

 At St. Kenelm’s we know that English, including Spoken Language and Reading, is the key to learning. We promote these skills through every aspect of our curriculum.

Please read our English and Reading Statement

Reading Skills ProgressionEnglish Writing and Spoken Language Overview

 Phonics and Reading Scheme

At St Kenelm's we use the Little Wandle Reading Scheme. Information is provided at Share-a session with Mrs Burns, our Phonics lead, regarding this scheme.

More information is available to Parents here:

Little Wandle Letters and Sounds - For Parents

Writing Scheme

We use Kinetic Letters hand writing programme throughout school to inspire our children. Benefits of the scheme include:

• Narrowing achievement gaps between children
• Benefitting self esteem and engagement with learning
• Comfortable, pain free writing
• Improvement in spelling, reading and editing
• Increased writing stamina
• Handwriting becoming a fundamental life skill

More information about the scheme can be found here:

Kinetic Letters Handwriting Programme 

Further Information

For more information on this, please contact Mrs. Thomas - English Writing Lead and Deputy Head teacher, or Mrs Burns -  Phonics and Early Reading Lead, who will be happy to talk through our ethos.