Harbour Primary and Nursery School |
English has a fundamental place in education and in society. Our intent at Harbour is to provide high-quality education in English that will teach our children to read fluently, communicate effectively, write purposefully, and develop a life-long love of reading. Through reading in particular, children have a chance to develop culturally, emotionally, intellectually, socially and spiritually.
At Harbour, we believe that a quality English curriculum should develop children’s love of reading, writing and discussion, and expose them to a variety of high quality texts and stimuli, as well as frequent, purposeful opportunities to practise and review key skills.
Our curriculum closely follows the aims of the National Curriculum for English 2014 to enable all children to:
- read easily, fluently and with good understanding;
- develop the habit of reading widely and often, for both pleasure and information;
- acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language;
- appreciate our rich and varied literary heritage;
- write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting language and style for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences;
- use discussion in order to learn, showing an ability to elaborate and explain clearly their understanding and ideas;
- become competent in the arts of speaking and listening, making formal presentations, demonstrating to others and participating in debate.
These aims are embedded across our English lessons and in the wider curriculum, where expectations of writing (including handwriting) are consistently high and children continue to develop speaking and listening skills while also being presented with a range of inspiring reading materials.
You can view our vision, progression and overview documents for Reading, Phonics and Writing using the side tabs.