‘Young people who leave school without good literacy skills are held back at every stage of life. Their outcomes are poorer on almost every measure, from health and wellbeing to employment and finance’ (Education Endowment Foundation, 2020). As such, it is our aim at Manor Drive that all students become skilled and fluent readers with strong inference skills to allow them to gain cultural capital and access texts across the curriculum and beyond.

Literacy impacts self-esteem, motivation, behaviour, and academic attainment.  We aim to always promote high standards and expectations of literacy across our curriculum and beyond the classroom, where we have specific programmes to actively ensure the success of all our students.

In action, our Reading Strategy adopts a layered approach to ensure that reading is embedded across all aspects of the curriculum and supports students with barriers to learning in this area.