English
Welcome to the English Department at Marshfields
Every aspect of our students work is influenced by the extent to which they use language with imagination and accuracy. Competence in reading, writing, speaking and listening is encouraged throughout the curriculum in order to enable our students to communicate effectively and appropriately.
However we teach English as a discrete subject, following the National Literacy Framework as appropriate to the needs of our individual students. Reading is taught initially using a phonics programme called Read, Write Inc. This is a synthetic phonics programme, which closely follows the guidance of ‘Letters and Sounds’ before moving on to our reading scheme. Opportunities are also given throughout KS3 and 4 to use the Read, Write Inc. approach for further consolidation of phonics and students can undertake specific intervention programmes if required.
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