The English curriculum develops four skills that are essential for learning in school and for life outside of school. These are speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

Speaking and listening includes teaching children how to express themselves verbally, how to listen carefully and respond to what they hear, and how to adapt what they say for different purposes.

Children learn to read and understand a wide range of types of text, including stories, plays, poems and information texts.

Children learn to produce writing of a similar range of types, paying attention to handwriting, spelling, punctuation and grammar to an increasingly high level as they move through the school.

Though the large majority of English teaching takes place during our daily literacy lessons, there are many planned opportunities to develop literacy skills in other areas of the curriculum.