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At the heart of everything is a personalised approach to each unique individual as part of our Christian Community. The strong family ethos ensures that all children and staff feel valued, respected and grow in self-confidence. Enthusiastic and caring staff with high expectations, demonstrate care of the whole child. Through God’s guidance we encourage each and every child to grow academically.

Article 29: Children’s education should develop each child’s personality, talents and abilities to the fullest. It should encourage children to respect others, human rights and their own and other cultures. It should also help them learn to live peacefully, protect the environment and respect other people.

The curriculum at Clutton is constructed in order to provide systems of learning and lived experiences that enable the pupils at our school to develop and grow as learners, empowering all children to fulfil the school’s motto: “Together we grow, together we shine’. The curriculum is focused on growing the whole person, through a broad range of subjects and wider opportunities. Its intent is to empower pupils in learning; to facilitate efficient acquisition of knowledge and to provide clear steps for progression and to develop a rich cultural capital. Through high-quality texts, resources and experiences, it aims to inspire our pupils to develop inquiring minds and to have a world view that is full of hope, with a knowledge of the love of Jesus. The curriculum meets the needs of all our children through a loving, nurturing environment, rich in social, spiritual and moral learning. It equips our pupils with the tools that will enable them to succeed in academic, professional and personal contexts throughout their lives

Reading

Reading has always had extremely high importance in Clutton and our aim is to develop a life- long love of reading for all children whilst developing their fluency, accuracy and comprehension skills.  Our aim is for all children to love reading at all ages and we encourage this by using a range of high- quality texts across our English curriculum which are enjoyable for children but also provide a challenge for them. In Foundation Stage, phonics has high priority to ensure that their phonetic skills are developed to ensure fluency and accuracy and in their reading. Phonics is taught through Little Wandle before children move onto Pathways to Read. We believe that through reading a wide range of texts and genres, children’s writing skills will be improved by enchaining their imagination and their vocabulary.

Reading comprehension is taught from years 2 to 6 using the Pathways to Read scheme. This is a systematic approach to the teaching of the reading skills outlined in the National Curriculum using a range of engaging texts. It consists of a whole class lesson, followed by small grouped reading lessons which provide children with the opportunity to master a key reading skill, then a follow on task which allows them to evidence the skills they have mastered independently.