Hannah Magee, English Subject Lead
Since joining the teaching staff at Jenny Hammond Primary School in 2011, Hannah has enjoyed contributing to many aspects of school life and teaching across different year groups. She is presently the English Subject Lead, as well as the Staff Governor, with the primary aim that every child receives an exceptionally strong start in Reading, Writing and all aspects of the Spoken and written word to aid their journey attaining skills for life. Hannah's intention for English within the school is to ensure that there is a rich and diverse curriculum based around the engaging topic themes and brilliantly inspiring books, empowering all children across the school to enjoy Literacy within the school.
Vision Statement
At The Jenny Hammond Primary School, we believe that English and communication are key life skills. Through our English curriculum, we help children develop the skills and knowledge that will enable them to communicate effectively and creatively through spoken and written language and equip them with the skills to become lifelong learners. We want children to be capable and fluent readers and writers.
We believe that English is central to children’s intellectual, emotional and social development - it has an essential role across the curriculum and helps pupils’ learning to be coherent and progressive. It is at the heart of all children’s learning and enables children both to connect with others effectively for a variety of purposes and to examine their own and others’ experiences, feelings and ideas, giving these order and meaning.
Documents
Reading Inspiration...
Following are the recommended books for each year group from the National Literacy Trust
Helpful Links
Parents and carers are able to sign up to access all the Monster phonics books electronically via computer, phone or tablet. Please follow the link to sign up:
https://monsterphonics.com/register/ebooks-whole-scheme/?ca=65c5d869b2f5f2a758f3da0fd07a5a05
This useful video shows how to say the Monster phonics pure speech sounds (graphemes and how to say the phoneme):
This useful video shows the Monster phonics actions (digraph ‘monsters’ and the graphemes associated with them)
The CLPE (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education) has some great book videos of authors reading high quality texts aloud:
https://clpe.org.uk/books/videos
The Book Trust website has some great story books to share with Reception and Year 1 aged children and activities to do with them.
https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/have-some-fun/hometime-for-your-child/hometime-4-5/
Gallery
Once Upon a World Book Day...
a collaborative story written and illustrated by the pupils on Jenny Hammond Primary School to celebrate World Book Day 2024
