Ticehurst and Flimwell Church of England Primary School

At Ticehurst and Flimwell we are implementing Literacy Tree, which is a completely book based approach which is based around a "Teach around the Text" pedagogy. This has restructured our delivery of the English curriculum and works in alignment with the Principles of our whole school Teaching and Learning pedagogy.

There is a culture that app children can succeed in becoming confident proficient readers and writers with a love of language, literature and the spoken word.

• Writing and Reading are taught in discrete targeted sessions daily and throughout the curriculum in cross-curricular ways.                                         -  -
• Each lesson expects all pupils to contribute to enaging and meaningful drama, discussion and debate as children are immersed in texts from a wide range of literary worlds. All ccontributions are valued.                         
• Through writing lessons pupils are given opportunities to write for a clear audience and with specific purposes.                                                        
• Explicit teaching of writing and grammar conventions develops skills which improve outcomes for pupils as writers.                         
• Frequent opportunities to write in daily lessons applying writing conventions support good progress and attainment in writing.       
• Application of vocabulary and conventions that build on prior knowledge are taught within the eivdence base that works within the capacity of working memory.
• Teachers model expectations clearly and opportunities are given within the whole school teachingpedgagogy to practise application as a class, as a pair and individually.
• Assessment is ongoing, reflective and accurate in planning next steps of learning.                                                                                                             
•   Scaffolds are planned and implemented and to enable appropriate and graduated pathways to independence in learning.