Our Curriculum Aims:

English is the oxygen of learning across the whole curriculum. We aim for our students to be:

• enthusiastic, swift and critical readers across a wide range of texts, forms, periods and cultures
• clear, creative, accurate and effective writers across a wide range of purposes, audiences and forms
• confident, articulate and effective speakers across a wide range of contexts and purposes
• knowledgeable about British culture, values and literary heritage, aware and appreciative of different cultures
• active, engaged, articulate citizens of a multi-cultural society and enthusiastic lifelong readers and learners

Curriculum Core Concepts 

• Reading (Reception): synthesis, inference, analysis, evaluation, context 
• Writing (Production): creativity, structure, language, tone, accuracy