The Governors and Headteacher of Brampton School have adopted the National Literacy Strategy framework of guidance for the teaching of Literacy across the school to assist in raising standards. We believe that through reading and writing children develop their powers of imagination, inventiveness and critical awareness.

Aims

At Brampton we aim to develop all pupils’ abilities and maximise their achievement within an integrated programme of reading, writing and speaking and listening.

We expect pupils to:

• Read, write and speak with confidence, fluency and understanding.
• Use a full and appropriate range of strategies to deal with reading and writing challenges independently.
• Have an interest in books and read for enjoyment.
• Understand the connection between the spoken and written word.
• Have an interest in words and their meaning and develop a growing vocabulary in spoken and written form.

Time allocation

There are 5 designated literacy hours per week. There are also 2 1/4 hours for the provision of the wider English curriculum.

Foundation Stage

The Reception classes teach in accordance with the Foundation stage requirements and through an integrated approach work towards achieving the Early Learning Goals and the learning objectives in the National Literacy Strategy.

Links with other areas of the curriculum

Where appropriate, literacy teaching should be linked to work in other areas of the curriculum. During the literacy hour however, the focus of the teaching must be on the literacy objectives from the National Literacy Strategy framework.