Our love for reading and reading rationale explains our reading intention at Leonard Stanley. We want children to love reading and hold reading as our golden thread, bringing together our school curriculum. Our guided reading programme allows children to read a wide variety of texts on topics that enrich the curriculum. For example, texts about adventure, scientists, religions, and cultures from around the world, famous authors, and texts about our local area.

At Leonard Stanley Primary School, we strive to help our children develop into articulate and imaginative communicators who are well-equipped with the basic skills they need to become life-long learners; writing is key in this. We aim for all of our pupils to be able to confidently communicate their knowledge, ideas and emotions through their writing.

We want pupils to have high-quality writing opportuities in a range of genres, engage in active and experiential learning and take pride in their outcomes. It is ambitious and empowers our children to become independent and resilient. We enrich their time in our school with memorable, unforgettable experiences and provide opportunities that are normally out of reach; this promotes a love of writing that reaches far beyond the classroom.

We want our children to love science. We want them to have no limits to what their ambitions are and grow up wanting to be astronauts, forensic scientists, toxicologists, or microbiologists. We want them to embody our core values. The science curriculum has been carefully crafted to be exciting and challenging and work within the parameters of our class structure and the National Curriculum. We want our children to remember their science lessons in our school, to cherish these memories and embrace the scientific opportunities they are presented with.