English at St Charles’ Catholic Academy
We firmly believe that reading is the key to all learning and so the impact of our reading curriculum goes beyond the results of the statutory assessments. We give all children the opportunity to enter the magical worlds that books open up to them and we promote reading for pleasure as part of our reading curriculum. Children are encouraged to develop their own love of genres and authors and to review their books objectively. This enhances a deep love of literature across a range of genres, cultures and styles.
We firmly believe that developing children as writers is so much more than asking them to remember grammatical constructions or tricky spellings. It is a complicated and intricate process. If we enable a child to become a writer then we have given them a voice, supported them to communicate and provided them with a skill that is vital for all of their schooling and to their life beyond.
‘In every writer, there is a reader. Give them reading. Let them lift the words off the printed page to enrich their own written work.’
