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Curriculum Aims
Wisdom – Our children will acquire a wide vocabulary, read easily with fluency and good understanding and write accurately and coherently to communicate ideas. We will endeavour to ensure that phonics and early reading provide excellent foundations for building these skills.
Independence - Our children will learn to read widely for both pleasure and information. Through the use of exciting rich texts, we want children to produce unique and inspiring outcomes selecting their own ideas for presentation and genre.
Creativity - Our children will learn to be able to seek opportunities to create, refine and share outcomes with a real audience.
Kindness – Through reading, our children will learn to develop culturally, emotionally, intellectually, socially and spiritually.
English Progression
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English Policy
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Please follow this link to our phonics page for more information on our Rocket Phonics programme:
VIPERS
At Newick, we regularly assess the children’s reading comprehension using VIPERS questions.
What are VIPERS?
VIPERS is an acronym to aid the recall of the 6 reading domains as part of the UK’s reading curriculum. They are the key areas which we feel children need to know and understand in order to improve their comprehension of texts.
VIPERS stands for
Vocabulary
Inference
Prediction
Explanation
Retrieval
Sequence or Summarise
The 6 domains focus on the comprehension aspect of reading and not the mechanics: decoding, fluency, prosody etc. This is covered in our early reading scheme, Rocket Phonics.
If you would like more information on the type of VIPERS questions you can ask your child when listening to them read, please click on the links below:
KS1 VIPERS Questions KS2 VIPERS Questions
Useful Documents
Resources for Parents and Carers
Click on the 'Rocket Phonics' logo below to take you to the Parents Information Page
Phonics FAQ page 
Recommended Reading Books
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Recommended Reads Early YearsRecommended Reads Year 1 Recommended Reads Year 2 Recommended Reads Year 3 Recommended Reads Year 4 Recommended Reads Year 5 Recommended Reads Year 6
Books Recommendations for Home
Download the blocks below to see good examples of early and challenging chapter books suitable for KS1
Writing Champions
To inspire and stimulate children to write, every term we will hold a writing collective worship. We will share ideas and prompts that children might like to write about. Any writing done at home can be placed in the box on our Writing Champions display by the library. At these collective worships we will also share and celebrate lots of the writing completed at home and in class.
For Term 5, we have provided the children with three pictures to use as inspiration. They are to choose one of the pictures and create a piece of writing using the question prompts.
Follow the links below to access the pictures:
Underwater Dragon - https://www.onceuponapicture.co.uk/portfolio_page/dragon/
Glowing Girl - https://www.onceuponapicture.co.uk/portfolio_page/glow/
Girl on a House on a Dragon - https://www.onceuponapicture.co.uk/portfolio_page/girl-house-dragon/
All those who enter will receive a writing champions certificate and a special pen!
Writing on Display
