English Curriculum
OLOL English Policy
English Progression Grids
Genre and Text Types
OLOL English Texts List
OLOL Class Authors
OLOL Phonics Materials
OLOL English Knowledge Organisers (Key things your child should know and do)
OLOL English Key Knowledge
100 books that you should read
Reading Resources
Writing Resources
Spelling Information and Resources
Handwriting
National Curriculum Information
English at OLOL
OLOL Library
Our school library is packed with engaging texts from every genre. Our newly elected Year 5 librarians are here to help us out at break-times and lunch-times: choosing books, making recommendations and completing reading challenges.
Whole Class Texts
We share a range of whole class texts throughout the year to expand our vocabulary, develop our reading skills and inspire our writing. Here are our English Champions with their class’ texts.
Read with DERIC (KS1) or ERIC (KS2)
At OLOL, we love ‘reading with ERIC’. ERIC helps us to demonstrate our comprehension of the texts we read and to articulate which reading skill we are using when answering a question.
Reading tasks
In our home reading diaries, we reading challenges. Our English Champions monitor diaries and tasks completed. When we complete our first ten challenges, we are awarded a bookmark. When we complete all twenty challenges, we choose a new book to take home from Mrs David.
Favourite Authors
We keep a record of our favourite authors, which we add to throughout the year, at the back of our reading diaries. We enjoy sharing our favourite authors with our friends.
Vocabulary Ninja
At OLOL, we want to extend our language so that we are using unique and ambitious vocabulary in our writing. Every week, we study five challenging words in class. We use post-its to share ideas when delving into deeper meaning and investigating the origin of each word: finding synonyms and antonyms, writing sentences, modifying the word and locating its definition.
Which Vocabulary Ninja are you? Check out the 100 commonly over-used words and Vocabulary Ninja’s alternatives to help you move from Grasshopper to Shinobi to Warrior to Samurai to Assassin and finally the Grand Master.
Writing Journey
At OLOL, we know that our writing journey is important to produce high-quality written pieces. When introducing a new genre, we complete text style analysis and text style planning. We spend time exploring unique language and mature sentence types and even 'magpie' effective choices from authors to use in our own writing. During our drafting, we use ‘edit flaps’ to edit targeted paragraphs and ‘double-line spaces’ and blue pens to make amendments to our writing.
Fantastic Writing at OLOL
Check out the superb writing we have produced inspired by the first texts we shared in our classes.
Hay Festival 2021
Enriching Literacy at OLOL: Class Act Theatrix
At OLOL we are lucky to work with Class Act Theatrix director and West End star, Ashley Russell who greatly enhances the communication and language offer in EYFS with her weekly Reception Class workshops. Funded through the Pupil Premium Grant, Ashley’s work develops the oracy and confidence of our youngest children, enriching their love of story, drama and vocabulary.
Ashley runs a wide range of classes for children of all ages outside school and runs a once weekly drama skills after school club at OLOL. She can be contacted via her website https://www.classacttheatrix.com