At Christ the King, we recognise that strong literacy skills are essential for success across the curriculum and beyond school. Literacy underpins learning, supports personal development and enables students to participate confidently in society.
We believe that effective literacy:
- improves students’ self-esteem, motivation and behaviour
- enables students to learn independently and express themselves with confidence
- opens up personal pathways to success and active participation in society, culture and the economy
- equips students with the vocabulary, expression and organisational skills needed to meet the demands of different subjects
- supports learning through reading beyond students’ immediate experiences
- helps students develop clear, structured thinking through writing
- enables reflection, revision and evaluation in both spoken and written language
- develops higher-order thinking skills through responding to challenging questions.
