Language and communication is the most important life skill and fundamental to all learning. Effective use of literacy and oracy skills empower the learner; enabling skills essential for everyday life, the world of work and independent understanding. Most importantly, they enable pupils to communicate their thoughts and feelings to others, ensuring they can be understood and develop both academically and emotionally.
Achievements
We want our children to achieve by:
- enabling pupils to communicate their thoughts and feelings to others,
- listening carefully with concentration, to understand the main points of what they have heard,
- speaking clearly, audibly and with purpose,
reading with confidence, fluency and a deeper understanding, - writing with purpose, organisation and awareness of the reader,
- noticing the strategies and techniques real writers use and transferring these skills into their own work,
- developing a wider, rich and growing vocabulary in spoken and written forms,
- understanding a range of text types and genres,
- being able to write in a variety of styles and forms appropriate to the situation.
Choices
To make children aware they have choices through:
- developing their powers of imagination, inventiveness and critical awareness,
- taking into account their listeners and adapt their tone/level of formality to suit the appropriate context/situation,
- having a suitable technical vocabulary to articulate their responses,
- using a range of independent strategies to self-correct,
- applying an ability to self-correct and edit confidently.
Enjoyment
To enjoy school our children:
- be understood and listened to,
- listen to others and take on board the points of others with respect and interest,
- be encouraged and supported to read for enjoyment,
- have an interest in books and seeking out information independently,
- have an interest in words and their meanings.