St Wilfrid's English Hub
St Wilfrid's Primary School is an outstanding school in the South of Sheffield with a track record of high performance.
The school is places a high profile on early reading through a strong commitment to systematic, synthetic phonics. From the moment the children start at St Wilfrid's, our mantra is that 'reading is the core purpose' because reading opens up the world to our children and, if they can read, they can access the curriculum, develop a strong vocabulary and ultimately love reading for the rest of their lives. The school is part of Learning Unlimited Teaching School Alliance and is outward-facing with a track record of school to school support.
St Wilfrid's English Hub
The English Hub exists to promote three priority areas:
- Early Language Development
Providing evidence-based approaches to early language development and closing the word gap in school-based early years settings,including appropriate use of formative assessment;
- Age-appropriate Phonics Provision
encouraging best practice in systematic synthetic phonics teaching from school-based early years provision to the end of Key Stage 1, and as the primary reading strategy throughout the school. This includes encouraging fidelity to a single systematic synthetic phonics programme;
supporting the effective use of decodable books in the early stages of learning to read, as a way of establishing phonic decoding;
supporting effective practice in formative assessment in relation to phonics/early reading.
- Promoting A Love Of Reading
encouraging reading for enjoyment including by supporting whole school reading approaches, reading to children at least once a day and encouraging reading at home, developing teachers' knowledge of appropriate children's literature.