At Marner, we are committed to ensuring our children leave us as confident readers, writers and communicators. We use a range of strategies to teach our children the necessary skills to succeed in the English Language, and the wider world.

Our English texts are chosen carefully to either correspond with children’s learning across the curriculum or inspire their imaginations. At Marner, we are committed to an Anti-Racist approach to our curriculum, and as such we are reviewing our current offer to ensure we are exposing children to a wide range of diverse authors and ideas. This is an ongoing task so there will be changes as this embeds.

Reading
At Marner, children learn to read through our robust Approach to Early Reading. We follow the Tower Hamlets Education Partnership Phonics Programme.
THE Partnership Phonics Programme

Reading is encouraged and celebrated throughout children’s school life: in classrooms, at home and in our school library. Our Approach to Reading ensures our children develop as confident readers, with their own voices and opinions about the book choices they make.

“Reading for pleasure is the single biggest indicator of a child’s future success – more than their family circumstances, their parents’ educational background or their income.” - Worldbookday.com

We ensure a wide range of books is available through our school library and class book corners. Every classroom has special shelves for ‘recommended reads’ to develop our Reading for Pleasure culture.

We would like to thank The Book Trust, The Children’s Book Project, Tower Hamlets Schools Library Service and CPLE for their support in developing our Readers.

Writing
Writing is the next step for our children as they become more confident readers and speakers. We are a Storytelling school, and this approach is used throughout our curriculum. Our Approach to Writing incorporates evidence-based practice and is supported by high quality CPD for our teachers.

Our Curriculum is based on the National Curriculum English objectives, and is balanced between texts chosen to inspire imagination and texts chosen to support wider curriculum learning. We review our curriculum each year to ensure our children get the best range of outcomes to feel confident as writers for any purpose.