Our St Barnabas’ School Vision and Rationale for the Reading Curriculum

Our aim at St Barnabas’ School is that all children aspire to master a broad range of skills, knowledge and understanding relating to English and Communication.

Our Vision

• Developing an enthusiasm and love for Reading.
• Ensuring that we promote highs standards of language and literacy.
• Ensuring children fluently express the ideas of themselves and others through a variety of genres in writing, reading, speaking and listening.
• Enabling children to access reading through a broad selection of reading materials and provide opportunities for purposeful and enjoyable reading.
• The children becoming lifelong readers so they can pass it on to the next generation.

  Our Rationale

• Preparing each child for a place in education and society so they can communicate their emotions and ideas to others.
• Ensuring that the children become autonomous, confident and passionate learners.
• Providing opportunities for performance to a wider audience.
• Enabling children to use language and communication to address local, national and global issues and provide opportunities for free speech and the expression of opinion.
• Encouraging pupils to appreciate the power and beauty of the spoken and written word as well as to ask questions and think critically.
• Ensuring that pupils will access a rich variety of reading materials aimed to promote purposeful and enjoyable reading experiences.