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At St Teresa’s, we place reading at the core of our primary curriculum which links directly with writing, recognising them as interconnected skills fundamental to learning, personal growth, and academic success. We are committed to developing confident, articulate communicators who can read with deep comprehension and write with clarity, creativity, and purpose.
Through a carefully sequenced, ambitious curriculum, we aim to equip all pupils with the reading and writing skills (including handwriting and spelling) necessary to become confident, skilled communicators who can express themselves eloquently, think critically, and engage meaningfully with the world around them.
Our approach ensures that reading and writing are not seen as discrete skills, but as powerful, interrelated means of understanding, exploring, and communicating ideas.
Our core scheme is CLPE’s Power of Reading. At the heart of each unit is a purposefully chosen, high-quality text from which all of the writing opportunities arise. It fosters reading and writing for pleasure. We have also carefully interwoven the grammar objectives to ensure that the teaching of writing is rigorous and high quality. We further supplement our approach to English with a carefully chosen spelling scheme- Spelling Shed- and teaching quality handwriting in order to achieve excellence.
Reading is at the heart of our school. We are very proud of our new school library and the children love it! Our Reading Ambassadors take great care of the library and books and love recommending new reads to the other children. We also have fully embraced the year of reading, taking part in exciting initiatives to continue to champion Reading in our school- we even have Reading champions in each class!
As part of our offer in English, children also get the opportunity to visit Little Lever Library across the school year. They get to select their own book that they choose to read for pleasure and explore the library resources!
Our English Subject Leader is Mr Marshall.
