Our aim is to engage pupils in a vibrant and exciting thematic curriculum.  Our curriculum sits alongside other key subjects, helping pupils to make links across their learning and apply their understanding across a broad range of contexts.  Our curriculum allows pupils the opportunity to develop the skills they will need to access our KS3 curriculum, whilst being flexible enough to allow them time to work on foundational literacy skills.

We aim to develop pupils’ reading skills using a range of vibrant and relevant texts. Texts have been chosen for interest and engagement but also with the understanding that our pupils may have widely different contexts and needs.   Activities are planned to build pupils’ fluency and comprehension and support them to lay the foundations for success at KS3 and beyond.

We aim to develop writing skills through the explicit teaching of different forms.  Pupils will have the opportunity to write for a wide range of audiences and purposes, developing their individual voices and engaging their imagination, creating opportunities for self-expression and creativity.  We recgonise that reading is breathing in; children internalise the big ideas and creativity of others and writing is breathing out; children express their thoughts and ideas, formed and informed by their reading.

We aim to nurture the skills of verbal communication through a range of speaking and listening activities, which build confidence and fluency, helping pupils to articulate themselves with clarity and expression

Cultural capital and global awareness are built through the deliberate choice of diverse texts and writers.  We aim to the teach British Values through our texts and the discussion of issues which arise from these choices.