Reading and Writing
Reading and writing are key skills that underpin all areas of our curriculum. Please read the attached for more details:
At Heathbrook, we use Letters and Sounds to help us to teach phonics in conjunction with Thrass and Jolly Phonics.
Reading and writing is underpinned by a whole school commitment to oracy. We have worked closely with the Communication Trust to further enhance staff skills and communication-friendly learning environments. To further support children with speech and language difficulties we buy in a Speech and Language Therapist.
Recent Reading and Writing News
Little Red Playscript
Prop and technical support teams are busy at work! Today Year 5 had a rehearsal of the playscript they have been working on in teams for the last couple of weeks Each [...]
First News Editors
Today Year 5 had the wonderful oppportunity to learn about how stories are chosen and placed in the news paper. We learned about ‘teaser’ section, the ‘front page news’, ‘big news stories’ and ‘editors comments’ [...]
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Little Red Author Visit – Bethan Woollvin GalleryLittle Red Author Visit – Bethan Woollvin
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Little Red Author Visit – Bethan Woollvin
Today we were very excited to welcome Bethan Woollvin to Heathbrook. After three weeks of studying her traditional tale twist Little Red, we were ecstatic to be able to have Bethan visit us and share [...]
Reading Volunteers information session
Many parents attended our Reading Volunteers’ PTA coffee morning to find out how they can support children of all ages in a variety of ways.
Little Red setting description
Year 5 have been spending this week in literacy practising techniques to develop detail for their setting descriptions. In groups, the children worked together to create setting descriptions which contained personification, simile, adjectives, adverbs and [...]
Year 6 “Little Red” drama
This week, year 6 learnt and performed the fractured fairytale "Little Red" (written by Bethan Woollvin, the author who is coming to visit Heathbrook next Wednesday). We then spent a couple of sessions adapting the [...]