At our school we strive for each child to be able to:

• Read and write with confidence, fluency and understanding.
• Have a positive reading and writing culture throughout school.
• Engage children through wider opportunities.
• Developing a love of reading and writing across the curriculum.
• Have an interest in texts of all types and to read for enjoyment – to foster a love of reading in many children.
• Have an interest in words and their meanings; developing a growing vocabulary in spoken and written forms.
• Understand a range of text types and genres, being able to write in a variety of styles and forms appropriate to the situation.
• Be developing the powers of imagination, inventiveness and critical awareness.
• Have a suitable technical vocabulary to articulate their responses.