Our English Curriculum has been designed to create confident writers through the use of quality core texts and a structured approach to teaching the core skills. We have been fortunate enough to work closely with Newford Academy in Stoke on Trent to develop the teaching of writing across our school. Similarly to Newford, Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling at All Saints is taught in a structured, consistent manner; ensuring all learners retain the essential knowledge and skills they will need in their adult life. STEM sentences are used to ensure key grammatical terms are consistently taught and applied across the school. Daily Sentence Not Sentence sessions (SNS) ensures children revisit previously taught skills daily and teaches them to become excellent editors. The wider curriculum provides children with varied opportunities to apply the writing skills they have acquired and to use the rich vocabulary they have absorbed along the way. Letter formation and handwriting are taught both through discreet sessions and through regular modelling during SNS sessions. This ensures presentation standards remains high but also that the children maintain stamina when writing throughout.
We have adopted the Emile Spelling scheme as a school which places emphasis on the etymology and the morphology of words by teaching words in groups with similar roots. The scheme aims to revisit the key
principles of phonics by linking earlier learning with new content. Please find the yearly spelling overviews below:
We have spaces available in our Reception cohort for September 2026. Please visit the Staffordshire County Council website for admission information: