At St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School we aim to:
• Provide a rich and stimulating language environment, where speaking and listening, reading and writing are integrated.
• Provide opportunities for pupils to become confident, competent and expressive users of language with a developed knowledge of how it works.
• Encourage children to express opinions, articulate feelings and formulate responses to a range of books and texts, both fiction and non-fiction, using appropriate technical vocabulary.
• Foster an interest in words and their meanings, and to promote the development of a growing vocabulary in both spoken and written form.
• Engage children with an understanding of a range of text types and genres.
• Foster an enthusiasm for, and love of, reading for life.
• Enable children to write in a variety of styles and forms showing awareness of audience and purpose.
• Develop the powers of imagination, inventiveness and critical awareness in all areas of literacy.
• Teach the children to use grammar and punctuation accurately.
• Develop the understanding of correct spelling conventions.
• Encourage the production of effective, well presented written work using fluent and legible handwriting.
• Provide opportunities for pupils to communicate ideas using ICT.
• Provide opportunities for role-play and drama.