The Aims of English are: 

At Arco Academy, our intent is to teach a balanced and progressive English curriculum to engage with diverse literature from a range of periods, styles and cultures. This enables the students’ critical thinking skills to be enhanced, developing their ability to comprehend and communicate effectively.

• We aim to provide students with basic language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) to acquire the linguistic competence necessary to progress.
• We want to empower students with the skills to speak eloquently and with consideration to their audience.
• We encourage students to listen actively in order to effectively recall, engage with, and challenge their understanding.
• We aim to develop students’ abilities to understand the expression of English Language and Literature through drama and debate.
• We want to instil confidence in our students to create independent readers through an appropriate focus on phonics, vocabulary, sentence structure and literary devices.
• We want to engage students to become enthusiastic and reflective readers through contact with challenging and lengthy texts. This can be achieved by introducing different styles of writing to recognise its value in a variety of forms and the relationship to artistic expression.

To read about the above in more depth, please see our English Curriculum Map.

Please also see our Bedrock Curriculum Map.