{"id":69,"date":"2018-10-22T19:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T19:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2024-08-18T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T11:27:07","slug":"literacy-and-languages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/curriculum\/literacy-and-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Literacy and Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Our\u00a0Literacy and English\u00a0programmes and courses cover:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Listening and Talking<br \/>\nReading<br \/>\nWriting<\/p>\n<p>At St Francis we use a wide range of resources to teach reading.\u00a0 In the infant department our core resource is <em>Jolly Readers, <\/em>these book will be sent home as part of your child&#8217;s\u2019 homework programme.\u00a0 In the middle and upper school <em>Bug Club <\/em>\u00a0is our core resource.<\/p>\n<p><i>Phonics International<\/i> is used to teach spelling throughout the school.\u00a0 We promote active spelling strategies and use these for homework.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout their time at St Francis your child will develop a range of writing skills, these skills are taught weekly with pupils writing imaginative stories, poetry, reports, recounts, letter and more.\u00a0 These writing skills are then developed in a variety of real life situations e.g. writing a letter to invite a visitor into school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our\u00a0Literacy and English\u00a0programmes and courses cover: Listening and Talking Reading Writing At St Francis we use a wide range of resources to teach reading.\u00a0 In the infant department our core resource is Jolly Readers, these book will be sent home as part of your child&#8217;s\u2019 homework programme.\u00a0 In the middle and upper school Bug Club &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/curriculum\/literacy-and-languages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Literacy and Languages<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16128,"featured_media":0,"parent":18,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5722,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/5722"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/stfrancisprimaryandnurseryclass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}