At Maiden Erlegh School, every teacher, regardless of subject specialism, is a teacher of literacy and has a responsibility to improve students’ literacy skills in the following areas:

• Oracy (spoken language)

• Reading for learning (Read to Achieve)

• Reading for pleasure and wider reading (Love to Read)

•Writing for a range of purposes and audiences

• Building vocabulary

The Literacy Overview sets out how we will deliver literacy across Maiden Erlegh School.