English

Curriculum Leader: Katie Mabey

Miss Mabey is our English Leader and is responsible for this curriculum area. Miss Mabey is also responsible for leading our systematic synthetic phonics programme (SSP) which in our setting is 'Monster Phonics'. We are fortunate that Miss Mabey is also employed by 'Monster Phonics' as an ambassador and it is her role to champion the scheme and promote excellence in phonics teaching and learning. In both her roles, this means Miss Mabey is responsible for:
 

• Ensuring consistency of subject teaching, including through observations and ‘book looks’.
• Curriculum sequencing and mapping.
• Meeting with Local Authority and Ofsted inspectors about the subject.
• Supporting planning, team-teaching, and delivering CPD.
• Attending subject network meetings.
• Organising subject events

We are also very fortunate at Chiltern Primary School to have a 'Speech and Langauge Support Assistant' who supports children across the school with their speech and language development. This can take the form of a tailored, personalised programme, provision against EHCP targets or children that need support to catch up in their learning. 

The children immensely enjoy the whole class text and it makes for some excellent whole-class discussions, which often inspire the writing in our English curriculum. It is, however, important they can apply their reading skills completely independently so regular opportunities to read and respond to an unfamiliar or unseen text are built into the reading diet available to the children.