Literacy
‘A literate student is one who is confident with reading, writing, speaking and listening in any context and able to use this to navigate adult life.’ - Sarah Findlater
Our aims
- To be, as a school, knowledgeable and confident in the teaching of high quality literacy
- To promote the importance of oracy and the formal skills of debate through the Y7 Your Voice Matters and the Y8 Speak Up, Speak Out programmes
- To develop and promote a culture of reading, both for pleasure and to enhance academic progress
- To teach academic vocabulary explicitly and clearly, in a coherently planned way, across the curriculum
- To support students with vocabulary deficits
- To promote and scaffold high quality academic writing and talk in the classroom
- To help our students to become more conscious of the language they use, and help them to develop independent word learning strategies
We expect our students to
- Engage in specific activities that develop speaking and listening skills as well as activities that integrate speaking and listening with reading and writing
- Develop speaking and listening skills through work that makes cross-curricular links with other subjects
- Develop reading skills through work that makes cross-curricular links
- Develop writing skills through work that makes cross-curricular links
- Redraft their work in the light of feedback. This could include self-evaluation using success criteria, recording and reviewing performances, target setting and formal and informal use of peer assessment
Our overall ambition is for students
- To make extended, independent contributions that develop ideas in depth
- To read widely, with purpose and for pleasure
- To make purposeful presentations that allow them to speak with authority on significant subjects
- To engage with texts that challenge preconceptions and develop understanding beyond the personal and immediate
- To experiment with language and explore different ways of discovering and shaping their own meanings
- To use writing as a means of reflecting on and exploring a range of views and perspectives on the world
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