The Curriculum - C forms (Year 6)

The C Form follow an integrated programme of speaking and listening, reading and writing. We follow some of Year 6 of the National Curriculum and the National Literacy Strategy, but our adherence is less rigid as we bridge the gap to CE. During Key Stage 2 pupils learn to change the way they speak and write to suit different purposes and audiences. They read a range of texts and respond to different layers of meaning in them. They explore the use of language in literary and non-literary texts and learn how language works. A variety of strategies is used to teach spellings from the appropriate sections of the National Literacy Strategy Spelling Bank, together with words arising from the children’s own work. Reading is supported by class libraries, the School Library and the Bookshop. The range of genres covered includes:

• Classic fiction
• Poetry and drama by long established authors
• Longer established stories and novels selected from more than one genre, e.g. mystery, humour, science fiction, historical, fantasy worlds
• A range of poetic forms
• Autobiography and biography
• Diaries
• Journals
• Letters
• Records of observations which recount experiences and events
• Journalistic writing
• Non-chronological reports
• Discussion texts
• Formal writing
• The use of non-fiction texts