Six great principles of English teaching which reflect our pedagogy:-
- Understanding that the subject is an interconnected body of knowledge - integration across subjects
- Always supported by ambitious text choices - exposure to challenging text and vocabulary
- Places great literature at the heart of every lesson - class novel, subject fiction and non-fiction, whole class reading
- Hinges on subtle and sensitive modelling - key to what great teaching means to us
- Places a great value on words - the best, the most powerful, the most appropriate
- Gives students lots and lots of writing practice - basic skills, incidental writing opportunities, cross-curricular writing