Literacy

The school embraces and delivers a full and enriching curriculum, which incorporates the Primary Framework in a creative manner. Throughout the school literacy skills are developed with changing emphasis as children grow in competence and maturity. Children are provided with opportunities to develop the spoken word and increase their listening skills. Good provision is made to support those children who display temporary or longer term learning needs.

Individual learning needs are celebrated and developed by using teaching techniques which are suited to all learning styles, such as, drama, outdoor learning, hot seating, ICT and multi-media learning. Outside visitors are used to enhance all areas of the curriculum.

We actively encourage children to take pride in their work, assessment is carried out regularly using success criteria that gives pupils the opportunity to self-assess, pair-assess and receive formal assessment feedback through "two stars and a wish".

Reading is promoted as enjoyable and as a gateway to life long learning made accessible to all through a creative cross - curricular approach with an emphasis on comprehension, understanding and the ability to infer hidden meaning in a wide range of texts.