English
Caring Respect Empathy Courage Resilience
Subject leader: Miss Brussels
The aims of English are:
- To enable children to speak clearly and audibly in ways which take account of their listeners
- To encourage children to listen and to read with concentration in order to be able to understand the world around them
- To develop children’s abilities to reflect on their own and others contributions and the language used
- To develop confident, independent readers and writers through an appropriate focus on word, sentence and text level knowledge.
- To encourage children to become enthusiastic and reflective readers and writers through enjoyable texts
- To help children to value and enjoy speaking, reading and writing
Please refer to the English National Curriculum here for more detail of your child’s English expectations:
