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English
At Valley Invicta Primary School at Leybourne Chase, children from Foundation Stage to Year 6 are provided with many opportunities to develop and apply their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills across the curriculum. We intend for all of our pupils to be able to speak, read and write to an excellent standard to enable them to reach their full potential in the world of work and as global citizens.
We value reading as a crucial life skill and that becoming a fluent reader is the key to accessing the wider curriculum and becoming a successful, resilient learner. We place huge importance and emphasis on the teaching of reading and on nurturing a life-long, love of reading.
We inspire our children through using high-quality texts, immersing children in vocabulary rich learning environments. The children here are exposed to a wide and rich vocabulary enabling them to write and adapt their language to a range of genres as well as support purposeful speaking and listening. Our curriculum has been designed to engage children in writing and build their enjoyment as well as build their self-belief and resilience. They plan, revise and evaluate their writing. Teachers show pupils how to spell with common patterns and use rules in order to help them recall spellings as well as teaching exceptions to these rules.
