We believe that:

• enhancing pupils’ language enhances their subject learning
• all subjects can make a specific contribution to developing pupils’ language through the teaching of subject-specific vocabulary and patterns of language
• all teaching contributes to pupils’ development of language since speaking, listening, reading and writing are, to varying degrees, integral to all lessons.

Literacy across the Curriculum is important because:

• reading helps us to learn from sources beyond our immediate experience
• pupils need vocabulary, expression and organisational control to cope with the cognitive demands of subjects
• writing helps us to sustain and order thought
• language helps us to reflect, revise and evaluate the things we do, and on the things others have said, written or done
• responding to higher order questions encourages the development of thinking skills and enquiry
• improving literacy and learning can have an impact on pupils’ self-esteem, on motivation and behaviour. 
• It is empowering as it allows pupils to learn independently.