English

The English Committee oversees the implementation of the English Operational plan. Whole school events including National Simultaneous Storytime and Book Week are organised and promoted by the committee.

At Edney Primary School in English, we implement a range of programs across our Early Childhood, Middle and Upper Primary School to support the developmental progression of our students Literacy skills.

In Early Childhood the Letters and Sounds program is implemented and teaches the skills of blending for reading and segmenting for spelling. It progresses through all sounds, working from the simple to the more complex. The program effectively targets the development of oral language, reading, spelling and written expression in the early years. To ensure we capture students who need extra intervention and support in the early years we offer the Sounds-Write intervention program. It teaches the skills, conceptual knowledge and code knowledge that are essential for learning to read and spell successfully.

The Soundwaves Program is used in Year 4-6. The Sound Waves Spelling follows a logical scope and sequence and is organised around the 43 phonemes (sounds) of Australian English and the graphemes (a letter or letter combination) used to represent them in written language.

A priority for Edney Primary School is for students to improve their reading and writing skills based on previous years NAPLAN results. T4W is a sequential process that uses spoken activities to develop writing skills and is implemented in all year levels. It develops and expands students’ oral language skills and ideas for stories and is extended into formative steps of being able to produce sentence, paragraph and text ideas in a range of genres.