The quality of our child’s English work has been recognised by the founders of The Literacy Curriculum as they have asked Woodlea to be one of only 19 ‘Flagship’ schools across the country. To become a flagship school, the founders came to school at the end of the summer term and interviewed staff on our use of the scheme and carried out a mini deep dive of our English curriculum. They also looked at children’s work from across all year groups and were suitably impressed.

I have copied Literacy Tree’s explanation of what a flagship school is below:

“Our Flagship Schools have been chosen for their innovative use of our book-based approach across the curriculum. They have adopted and adapted our planning sequences to complement their own topics or use our themes. Our flagship schools enjoy sharing how they have used the sequences to support engagement and raise attainment in English…….. https://literacytree.com/flagship-schools/

We use the Literacy Tree scheme as the backbone of our English curriculum. Within this we use their Writing Roots aspect as our whole school approach to writing which involves a daily 60-minute session. We grow literary knowledge and develop skills by using whole books, rather than extracts, promoting a love of learning and an eagerness to engage with similar texts. Many of our texts link to aspects of other curriculum subjects, leading to deeper thinking and further discussion. 

Our book-based Writing Root Overviews (see below) show our journey through the books in the Literacy Tree over each school year. The books sit together under literary themes and the wide range of high quality and significant children's literature engage, challenge and support children to be critical readers, as well as confident and informed writers.

Through our use of Writing Roots, all National Curriculum requirements of grammar, spelling, vocabulary, literary language and composition are embedded, leading to a wide variety of purposeful and exciting shorter, longer and extended pieces of writing, where the audience and purpose is clear.

Writing Roots use carefully selected novels, poetry collections and high-quality, non-fiction books that connect to our Litarary Leaves through literary themes.

For more information about The Literacy Tree go to https://literacytree.com/

The quality of our child’s English work has been recognised by the founders of The Literacy Curriculum as they have asked Woodlea to be one of only 19 ‘Flagship’ schools across the country. To become a flagship school, the founders came to school at the end of the summer term and interviewed staff on our use of the scheme and carried out a mini deep dive of our English curriculum. They also looked at children’s work from across all year groups and were suitably impressed.

I have copied Literacy Tree’s explanation of what a flagship school is below:

“Our Flagship Schools have been chosen for their innovative use of our book-based approach across the curriculum. They have adopted and adapted our planning sequences to complement their own topics or use our themes. Our flagship schools enjoy sharing how they have used the sequences to support engagement and raise attainment in English…….. https://literacytree.com/flagship-schools/

We use the Literacy Tree scheme as the backbone of our English curriculum. Within this we use their Writing Roots aspect as our whole school approach to writing which involves a daily 60-minute session. We grow literary knowledge and develop skills by using whole books, rather than extracts, promoting a love of learning and an eagerness to engage with similar texts. Many of our texts link to aspects of other curriculum subjects, leading to deeper thinking and further discussion. 

Our book-based Writing Root Overviews (see below) show our journey through the books in the Literacy Tree over each school year. The books sit together under literary themes and the wide range of high quality and significant children's literature engage, challenge and support children to be critical readers, as well as confident and informed writers.

Through our use of Writing Roots, all National Curriculum requirements of grammar, spelling, vocabulary, literary language and composition are embedded, leading to a wide variety of purposeful and exciting shorter, longer and extended pieces of writing, where the audience and purpose is clear.

Writing Roots use carefully selected novels, poetry collections and high-quality, non-fiction books that connect to our Litarary Leaves through literary themes.

For more information about The Literacy Tree go to https://literacytree.com/

The quality of our child’s English work has been recognised by the founders of The Literacy Curriculum as they have asked Woodlea to be one of only 19 ‘Flagship’ schools across the country. To become a flagship school, the founders came to school at the end of the summer term and interviewed staff on our use of the scheme and carried out a mini deep dive of our English curriculum. They also looked at children’s work from across all year groups and were suitably impressed.

I have copied Literacy Tree’s explanation of what a flagship school is below:

“Our Flagship Schools have been chosen for their innovative use of our book-based approach across the curriculum. They have adopted and adapted our planning sequences to complement their own topics or use our themes. Our flagship schools enjoy sharing how they have used the sequences to support engagement and raise attainment in English…….. https://literacytree.com/flagship-schools/

We use the Literacy Tree scheme as the backbone of our English curriculum. Within this we use their Writing Roots aspect as our whole school approach to writing which involves a daily 60-minute session. We grow literary knowledge and develop skills by using whole books, rather than extracts, promoting a love of learning and an eagerness to engage with similar texts. Many of our texts link to aspects of other curriculum subjects, leading to deeper thinking and further discussion. 

Our book-based Writing Root Overviews (see below) show our journey through the books in the Literacy Tree over each school year. The books sit together under literary themes and the wide range of high quality and significant children's literature engage, challenge and support children to be critical readers, as well as confident and informed writers.

Through our use of Writing Roots, all National Curriculum requirements of grammar, spelling, vocabulary, literary language and composition are embedded, leading to a wide variety of purposeful and exciting shorter, longer and extended pieces of writing, where the audience and purpose is clear.

Writing Roots use carefully selected novels, poetry collections and high-quality, non-fiction books that connect to our Litarary Leaves through literary themes.

For more information about The Literacy Tree go to https://literacytree.com/