Advent Term

English Learning Weeks 1-4

At the start of every new school year, years 2-6 start their English learning with a unit called the Place Value of Punctuation and Grammar (PVPG). This unit has been curated by an organisation founded by ex-teachers, with the aim of improving the foundations of children's writing and grammar at the start of the year, providing building blocks to refine throughout the year. Historically, schools have focused on teaching children to write for a purpose and in a particular genre from September, however, research has shown this often meant that children were not explicitly taught the fundamentals of grammar and sentence writing in the same way they are taught place value in maths at the start of new academic year.

This unit will last approximately 4 weeks and will teach children different word classes, building on those they already know and will recap how to correctly write and punctuate a sentence using this knowledge. Your child has completed the PVPG units in Year 2 and 3 already, so this unit in year 4 is designed to recap this prior knowledge to support retention and understanding and to build on it to encourage your child to write coherent, grammatically correct sentences  and can explain how they know their sentences are correct. This unit will also aid editing of their own writing once they start the PAINSLEY writing process of deconstructing, contextualised construction, reconstructing, drafting, editing and publishing.