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Lessons
English lessons are taught every day at Hollywood. Every week there are 3 ‘warm up’ sessions, which are approximately 10 minutes. The warm-up covers SPAG (spelling, grammar and punctuation) objectives and basic skills.
English lessons teach key reading, writing, SPAG and handwriting skills and objectives. Lessons are divided up into units of work, which are approximately 2-3 weeks. These units cover different genres of fiction and non-fiction.
During these units, the children will read examples of the genres, discuss the genres, analyse the structure and content and write in the style of the genre. The teacher will model writing with the children, share and guide children in writing and plan for independent written tasks. As part of the units, the children learn handwriting, grammar, spelling and punctuation skills too.
Children are expected to write every day in school and will be provided with the opportunity to complete at least one piece of extended writing every 2 weeks in the English lesson.
Opportunities for writing and developing writing skills extend across the whole curriculum. Children will be provided with opportunities to consolidate and extend their writing skills in other curriculum areas, including Science, Topic, RE and Computing.
Handwriting at Hollywood is cursive. Children from Reception up to Year 6 are taught to write in the cursive style. Handwriting is taught both as a stand-alone session as well as integrated into writing lessons.
Every two weeks children have a grammar-based lesson where they practise and embed the grammar skills they are taught.
Spelling is taught 3 per week and is based on Nelson Spelling resources for year 1, which is completely matched to Letters and Sounds, and Read, Write Inc spelling resources for years 2 to 6. Year 2 have 5 spelling sessions per week and all other groups have 3 sessions.
English
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Congratulations to @SBPSFA from Hollywood School for your success (despite being short of players and coaches due to co-vid isolation) in the Daniel Sturridge cup at the weekend. This young man from Hollywood is very proud. (Thanks mum for the pics)
Recently Y5 have been attending Aztec Adventure @aztecadventure1 with sports premium money. Getting out of their comfort zone behind a school desk. Fun was had by all. Group 3
Recently Y5 have been attending Aztec Adventure @aztecadventure1 with sports premium money. Getting out of their comfort zone behind a school desk. Fun was had by all. Group 2
Recently Y5 have been attending Aztec Adventure @aztecadventure1 with sports premium money. Getting out of their comfort zone behind a school desk. Fun was had by all. Group 1
