St Mary's Catholic Primary School
Working Together for the Good of Each Other
English
At St. Mary’s Catholic Primary School, Personal, Social, Health, and Economic (PSHE) education is embedded within our
overarching curriculum that prepares our children for many different aspects of their lives.
Our overall goal is to help our children to become well-rounded individuals with strong character, who will eventually go out into the world of adults and be actively and positively involved in society. In order to do this, we are striving to create a conducive environment around the school and this year we have created our own specific Personal Development Curriculum that is entwined with our academic curriculum.
Our curriculum aims to provide engagement and enrichment and through this, we aim for all children to have equal opportunities to thrive together.
English Curriculum overview
Drake Class descriptive writing for Dan Worsley's pirate writing workshop.
Drake Class- Young Writers competition winners. Well Done!
In Drake Class we have introduced a 'Golden Ticket Treat' for children who are reading 3 times per week or more. The tickets are put in a box and two are picked out each week. At the end of the half term the children get a treat. As you can see they had a great time!
Teddy bears story time for The Queen's Jubilee.
The children had a teddy bears story time today. They chose their own book to read, who they wanted to play each character and even asked their teddies what their favourite books were.
Columbus Class- Using adjectives to describe different settings
Drake Class had an amazing visit from the author Dan Worsley today! He came to do a writing workshop and told us a story about a pirate. The children then started to plan their own description of a pirate and then describe how they would feel when they saw him. They used some great description. Such as, trembling with fear and their feet were stuck to the ground with terror. Next they will write their own story about their pirate and edit it.
Congratulations to our children who have won the Young Writers 'Bonkers Monsters' writing competition. We took part in this as part of our English lesson and most of our children have won! Their work will be published in a book! Well done!
World Book Day Parade
'The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn, the more places you will go!'
Dr Seuss
World Book Day - Bly Class
World Book Day 2022 - Columbus Class
World Book Day 2022 Drake Class
Drake Class- 'Young writers' competition winners.
Shackleton Class Tower Wood Recounts
We had so much fun at Tower Wood that we wrote a recount in our English lesson - it was lovely to re-live our favourite memories and activities! Take a look at some of our beautiful (and very descriptive!) writing. Enjoy!
Drake Class-Recounts about our trip to Fleetwood Museum.
More fabulous writing ...
Shackleton class have been successful in another writing competition. This time the children were tasked with writing a poem titled 'All about me'. This was a fun writing challenge and, unsurprisingly owing to the high standard of writing, many entries have been selected for publication in a young writers anthology.
English Curriculum Map 2021-2022
Well done to the winners of the poetry young writers competition from year 2.
We had a visitor in Drake Class!' The Big Bad Wolf'. The children asked him questions and then acted out the about the story.
Celebrating writing success
Wren class have entered two writing competitions this year, one titled 'A Wander in the Woods' and the other named 'Peculiar Pets'. The children were given some vague writing criteria but, other than that, they could be as creative and imaginative as they liked. The entries were excellent, so much so that we received certificates and bookmarks to reward their efforts. Well done children!
Virtual lesson with Author Dan Worsley
The Winder Wind and Summer Sun
RWINC Phonic Support during National lockdown
English Action Plan 2019/2021
KLIPS Key Learning in English Documents
Read,Write Inc - Teaching of Phonics at St. Mary's
LPDS Week 3 Literacy Units of Work
LCPD English/Literacy Home Learning Support
Library visit feedback
Lancashire Reading Trail Award. Congratulations Francis for achieving your Lancashire Reading Award.
The 2019 Nativity - Children of the World.
EYFS and Year 1 phonic workshop - 12.12.19
Peregrine Class - celebrating writing success!
Once again our wonderful children have triumphed in their writing. We entered the Young Writers competition, for which the children were asked to write a poem about monsters, and lots of the poems have been selected for publication. This is amazing news, to have so many of our children's poems deemed worthy of publication is just phenomenal. Well done to all our wonderful writers!
Here are some examples of the speeches the children wrote about answering the question: why it is important to learn about other cultures?
Multicultural Display
Egyptian treat!
Visiting Fleetwood Library. Throughout the autumn I term, each class have had the opportunity to visit Fleetwood Library on a Friday afternoon. Each child across the school was issued with their own library card.
Year 5 Writing
Key Priorities for English 2019.20
Phonic Check Parents Meeting 29.3.19
World Book Day Parade and Celebrations 2019
Phonic Workshop for Parents. Wednesday 27th February 2019.
English Policy Updated January 2019
The 2018.19 Christmas Nativity - A wonderful performance by all the Infant children.
Creative writing workshop with local author Dan Worsley.
Reading for pleasure in our wonderful reading environments.
Visitor feedback - Dan Worsley
Today Dan Worsley, local author returned to sign some of his wonderful stories for the children.
The author Dan Worsley came into school to tell us about becoming a writer and his new book.
Hokusai's poetry- 'The magic box'.
Celebrating National Poetry Day - Saturday 6th October
Reception visit to Fleetwood library 19/09/18
Aristotle Word Book Day 2018
We were very lucky that two groups of Year 6 children came to read to us on World Book Day. One group used puppets to retell the story of The Gingerbread Man, they even allowed us to ask them questions about their favourite stories afterwards. Another group lead us around the outdoor area retelling the tale of The Three Little Pigs and used our resources in a fantastic way to keep us entertained!
Einstein class - World Book Day
To celebrate World Book Day Einstein class were treated to a story reading by some of our Year 6 children. The children read an extract from The 13 - Storey Tree House by Andy Griffiths. The class were completely hooked and this will hopefully encourage them to read more stories from this much loved series. A huge well done and a thank you to William, Harry and Shay who read and performed beautifully.
World Book Day 2018 - Year 6 came to share stories with Year 5.
The children enjoyed a wonderful storytelling experience of The BFG this afternoon. They listened, observed and laughed as the story unfolded and the exceptional storyteller(Anthony Pedley) brought fiction to life.
KLIPS
Reading and Writing Action Planning for 2017.18
Reading for pleasure in a stimulating environment.
The Beach Project - Encouraging and developing communication between schools.
World Book Day 2017
Assessment Cycle 2016.17
English Policy 2015
Deputy Head teacher's interschool communication / teambuilding project. Children from the 6 Fleetwood Primary Schools joined together on Wednesday 30th November and experienced outdoor activities that encouraged communication and team building. There are two more events planned for later in the year.
Parents and friends of St Mary's enjoy World Book day with thier child/ren.
Local children's author Dan Worsley works with the children in Yr3.
World Book Day - A book in a box!
Roald Dahl celebrations.
St. Mary's Year of Reading Project
Children's writing displayed in Fleetwood Asda, March 2016.
