Our curriculum enables our pupils to become sophisticated and flexible users of English and maths, as well as highly competent readers and writers. Effective use of English and fluent mathematical knowledge are prerequisites for success across the curriculum.

 

In particular:

1. We think largely in language. The ability of pupils to consider broad and abstract concepts is dependent upon both their vocabulary and the sophistication of their grammar. 
2. The ability to understand the ideas of others and communicate one's own thoughts is central to learning in school. The quality of collaboration in our classes is dependent on pupils’ standards of English.
3. Learning in school and more broadly in life is hugely dependent on the ability to read. A very large amount of information in our society is communicated in written form.
4. Numerical fluency is core knowledge required by all subjects across the curriculum. Maths develops the skills of reasoning, deduction, problem-solving, representation and logical connection, which are crucial thinking tools for wider learning.

 

We teach English in a variety of ways. Click on the links below to see the detail:

Click below to find out more about our approach to maths: