At the Crescent we are passionate about all our children becoming independent and enthusiastic readers, writers and spellers. Our Intent is to foster the love of reading by exposing pupils to a wide range of quality texts. The teacher’s enthusiasm for reading is one of the most important things that they do in their classroom.  It has a positive effect on reading achievement and the life-long love of reading.

Cross-curricular Opportunities

The skills that children are taught in Literacy underpin all other subjects.  They enable pupils to communicate and express themselves in all areas of their work.  Teachers will always make cross-curricular links wherever appropriate and will plan for pupils to apply the skills, knowledge and understanding that they have acquired during Literacy to other areas of the curriculum.

Drama and role play

At The Crescent Primary School we strongly believe that the more experiences children have the better writers they become. We therefore place a strong emphasis on bringing drama and role play into our English lessons, allowing the children to recreate those fantasy worlds that they so often read about.  Hotseating, teacher in role and freeze frames are just some examples of the types of activities your children will experience through our diverse literacy curriculum.