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Aims
The aim of the English at Wick is to enable pupils to:
*Have a growing awareness that language serves a range of purposes and varies according to context and audience or readership;
*Speak clearly and with increasing confidence and flluency;
*Communicate information effectively and give and respond to instructions appropriately;
*Listen purposefully and engage confidently in role play and drama and interact with  one another and the teacher using appropriate language;
*Increasingly sustain discussion and advocate and justify points of view;
*Be familiar with a range of strategies for reading and employ them effectively;
*Be able to read accurately, fluently and with appropriate expression;
*Have a clear understanding of what they read and view;
*Read and respond to a wide variety of literary, non literary, media and moving image texts, including some which have special reference to Wales or are from other cultures and traditions;
*Be able to respond orally and in writing to texts of increasing complexity;
*Be able to understand implicit as well as explicit meanings;
*Write a variety of formats and for different purposes and audiences;
*Are increasingly able to produce purposeful and sustained writing using accurate spelling and punctuation and appropriate handwriting;
*Demonstrate an appropriate command of standard English and be able to recognise and use an increasing range of styles and language registers;
*Revise and redraft their writing and present it appropriately;
*Become increasingly able to reflect independently on what they have written.