Our curriculum is built around a carefully selected range of high-quality texts that inspire, challenge and engage our pupils. These texts form the foundation of learning, providing rich language, strong narrative structures and meaningful themes that support both reading and writing development.

Pupils experience repeated exposure to a variety of text types across the curriculum, allowing them to become familiar with key features, language patterns and structures. This deliberate revisiting helps children to deepen their understanding and develop confidence when crafting their own writing.

A central focus of our approach is writing with a clear purpose. Through discussion, modelling and shared exploration of texts, pupils learn how authors shape their writing for different audiences and outcomes. They are then supported to apply these techniques in their own work, producing thoughtful, purposeful writing across a wide range of genres.