English

Hello and welcome to our English Curriculum page. Here you will find lots of information to tell you a little bit more about how we approach this core subject at BGP and also some links to useful sites that will help you to support your child’s learning. 

BGP English Curriculum

We follow the School Improvement Liverpool medium term plans for English which link directly to the National Curriculum. Click here for an overview of the unit plans for each year group. You can also visit your child’s class page on this website for current curriculum information. For our English related school policies, click here.

WE ARE SO PROUD TO HAVE ACHIEVED THE LIVERPOOL READING QUALITY MARK SILVER AWARD AND THE LIVERPOOL WRITING QUALITY MARK GOLD AWARD.

Useful English Websites

Here are some useful sites to help you to support your child’s learning in English:

A wonderful side, packed with fun games to help your child in all areas of English. http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html

This site links to ‘Magic Key’ activities to support some of the books we use as part of our home reading scheme. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey/index.shtml

Fun activities for KS1 from the BBC to help your child with literacy  http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/

Phonic games and activities from Words and Pictures http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/

Reading, writing and spelling and grammar skills can help you tell a story, share your ideas, write a letter and make sense of instructions. We use them every day and they help us understand each other. This KS2 Bitesize site from the BBC has lots of information, clips, revision and games to support the English curriculum http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/

Look, Cover Check spelling practice game http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/lookcover/lookcover.html

Print out this writing mat to help you to improve your writing https://parkfield.edmodo.com/file/view-crocodoc-new-window?uuid=dc39e5e2-22b8-4850-b2a2-81cf338f3939&file_id=7216430

On-line Oxford dictionaries and word games https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/schools

Space themed ‘hangman’ spelling game http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacyresources/files/alpha/alpha.htm