At Cheslyn Hay Primary Academy, we aim to give pupils the knowledge and the strategies required to become confident writers and accurate spellers – understanding the English language and the importance of grammar. We feel it is essential for children to develop a good understanding of SPAG to strengthen their writing and reading. Our Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar curriculum is based on what we know is best for our pupils. We want all children to make a conscious effort to learn words and spelling patterns.

Our children learn an array of spelling patterns regularly through phonics teaching and by using Place Value of Spellings and within our Grammarsaurus curriculum, which is also used in the teaching of Grammar.

During the first term, children will be following PVPG (Place Value of Punctuation and Grammar) which focuses on teaching and deepening children’s understanding of basic sentence structure. This will allow opportunities to reinforce and elicit links to prior learning to subsequently progress onto new learning.

Spelling tests are completed each week. Year 1 use the phonic scheme to generate their spellings, Year 2 (weekly) and KS2 (every 10 days) use a range of words from the topic being covered, spelling rules taught as well as the age-related words within their spelling tests.