ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the role literacy played across the curriculum and throughout the school day. In Tulip class, from morning to afternoon, the children were involved in various learning activities, relating to maths, science or religious education (RE). While the primary focus of these lessons was not on the teaching of literacy, they relied on reading and writing as means to access information and as tools for engaging with and communicating new knowledge and ideas. So these lessons offered 'practise' that is, opportunities for both reading and writing. Singing songs, learning prayers, and listening to stories, whether biblical or not, were regular activities in Tulip class. Singing was a practice the children greatly enjoyed. It always worked as an activity that brought everybody back together after group work or playtime and which calmed down tired and hungry children who were waiting for their lunch break or afternoon playtime.
