Literacy

What is it?

Literacy is the foundation of all learning. Reading, writing and oracy underpin every lesson in school. It is the shared responsibility of all teachers to ensure that the explicit teaching of literacy takes place.

Why is it important?

Literacy supports learning. Pupils need vocabulary, expression and organisational control to cope with the cognitive demands of all subjects.
Writing helps us to sustain and order thought.
Better literacy leads to improved self-esteem, motivation and behaviour. It allows pupils to learn independently. It is empowering.
Better literacy raises pupils’ attainment in all subjects.

What is the Central Line on Literacy?

Our three values and Literacy go hand in hand.

Community – we want to build a community of competent and developing readers who enjoy reading for pleasure

Commitment – in takes commitment to be a proficient reader and to keep developing and honing those skills

Creativity – reading allows our students to think creatively, imagining other possibilities and learning from texts

Further links:

Literacy - The Central Line

What is it?

Why is it important?

Literacy supports learning. Pupils need vocabulary, expression and organisational control to cope with the cognitive demands of all subjects.

Writing helps us to sustain and order thought.

Better literacy leads to improved self-esteem, motivation and behaviour. It allows pupils to learn independently. It is empowering.

Better literacy raises pupils’ attainment in all subjects.

What is the Central Line on Literacy?

Our three values and Literacy go hand in hand.

Community – we want to build a community of competent and developing readers who enjoy reading for pleasure

Commitment – in takes commitment to be a proficient reader and to keep developing and honing those skills

Creativity – reading allows our students to think creatively, imagining other possibilities and learning from texts

Literacy - The Central Line

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Students should be encouraged to engage with a range of texts to stretch and challenge them with scaffolded support. One way this can be achieved is through the use of the Reciprocal Reading approach. Core skills, such as prediction, clarifying, questioning and summarising texts can support with understanding of ‘Goldilock’ texts – not too difficult that it puts students off but equally not so easy that they do not learn new words and their meaning.