LITERACY & LANGUAGES
Literacy is a core element of Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence. It is fundamental to all areas of learning, as it unlocks access to the wider curriculum.
Literacy encompasses listening and talking, reading and writing.
The pupils in St. John Bosco will develop their literacy skills by having the opportunity to:
• communicate and collaborate with their peers in a variety of situations
• engage with and create a wide range of texts in different media, making excellent use of digital technologies to enhance learning in literacy
• develop an understanding and an appreciation of the unique qualities of our own and other cultures and languages
We use a wide variety of resources to support literacy development across the school, these include; Key Comprehension, Collins Big Cat Reading resource and age appropriate novels used within the school. In the Early Stages, we raise phonological awareness through our Jolly Phonics Programme. Each class has a library consisting of a wide range of books which children can access.
Writing is taught systematically at each level to enable children to write in a variety of contexts across the curriculum.
French is taught from Primary 1 to Primary 7.
Italian is taught in Primary 7 by a visiting specialist teacher from Trinity High School.
