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Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting
the welfare of children and young people. We expect all
staff, visitors and volunteers to share this commitment.

If you have concerns regarding the safeguarding or
welfare of any of our pupils, please contact Mrs M Scott
(Designated Safeguarding Lead), or Miss Barry or Mrs Sanderson
(Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads).

St Joseph’s participates in Operation Encompass.
Following the report of an incident of domestic abuse,
school will be advised that the child has been involved.
Please see school website for further details

The Safeguarding and Child Protection policy can be
found here. SAFEGUARDING AND CP POLICY

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The exciting things I will learn in English at St Josephs are:

 

At St Joseph’s, we follow the National Curriculum for English as a minimum, but do much more beyond this.  We follow The Write Stuff to plan progressive lessons that inspire the love of reading and writing. We pick a variety of cross-curricular texts that inspire and hook children in and we use a variety of fiction and non-fiction books that promote high quality writing.

 

 

The exciting things that take place in English are:

 

Daily 15 minute spelling lessons (Y3-Y6)

Opportunities to publish writing and have it displayed around school

Author visits

Cross curricular writing opportunities

The Book Bus

School library

Harry Potter Day

World Book Day

 

Why do I need to know this? 

 

At St Joseph’s we value writing. It is essential that we develop pupils’ writing within two clear ways – transcriptional (spelling and handwriting) and compositional knowledge (articulating ideas and structuring them in speech and writing). We believe that teaching pupils’ competence in these two areas are essential. In addition, pupils are taught how to plan, revise and evaluate their writing. These aspects of writing have been firmly embedded into the units of work across all year groups in school. As a school we have identified that the ability to write down ideas fluently depends upon effective transcription; that is, on spelling quickly and accurately through knowing the relationship between sounds and letters (phonics) and understanding morphology (word structure) and orthography (spelling structure) of words.  We teach pupils that effective composition involves articulating and communicating ideas, and then organising them coherently for a reader. We strongly believe that writing for an audience and a clear purpose is essential. This requires clarity, awareness of the audience of vocabulary and grammar. Writing also depends on fluent, legible and speedy handwriting.

 

 

Early Years Foundation Stage progression in writing

Harry Potter Day 2024

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