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Secondary English Newsletters

Below are North East Lincolnshire's Secondary English and Literacy Across the Curriculum newsletters. They are sent out termly to Heads of English, Whole School Literacy Co-ordinators and Schools' Strategy Managers.

Click here for older newsletters.

Secondary English Curriculum and Assessment

 The online Framework for Secondary English from the National Strategy is accessible through the following link: English Framework or can be downloaded here Revised Framework.  

The Framework website provides:

  • lines of progression and a bank of learning objectives;
  • support for planning for increased pupil progress;
  • plenty of useful guidance – both on screen and materials that can be downloaded;
  • links to additional guidance, to key National Strategy materials, and to other useful websites;
  • link to interactive planning tool for English which can be downloaded.

Assessing pupils' progress (APP) - Revised version including examples of Level 8 work.The speaking and listening APP is now available here too.

Assessing pupils' progress in English at Key Stage 3 (PDF) - A3 grids

Progression Maps for English - new website version. The speaking and listening progression map is now available here too.

Progression Maps for English - the original cd

CROSS CURRICULAR FRAMEWORKS

Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning SEAL learning outcomes   

Personal Learning and Thinking Skills PLTS   

Secondary English Training 

Heads of English  - Below are the PowerPoints for the Spring term's Heads of English Network meeting.

 icon hods jan 2010

icon reading in england (pisa)

Progression banks - useful teaching resources replacing the old 'key objectives' banks.

01_en_progressionmap_speak_listen      02_en_progressiomap_reading      03_en_progressionmap_writing

For resources from last term's meeting on teaching Shakespeare, see below. Warning! - some of the files are 'zipped' because they contain interactive whiteboard resources.

04_shakespeare_ y7_snippets         05_shakespeare_y7_snippets_resources    06_shakespeare_y8_romeo_juliet    07_shakespeare   _y8_romeo_juliet_resources

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 Regional English conference - an ever popular event. Check out last year's conference by clicking the link. If you like the look of it book yourself onto this year's!

http://tlfl.org.uk/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=12&task=videodirectlink&id=31
Secondary English Resources

 English Core Plus materials

These resources were designed for schools facing 'National Challenge' (below 30% A*-C at GCSE in English and Maths). However, the materials are useful for any school wanting to raise attainment at Key Stages 3 or 4. Core Plus is divided into 6 elements with sections a and b, 'a' being short term measures and 'b' being for longer term implementation. 

Click here to access the resources.

GCSE

Click here to go to GCSE revision materials.

KEY STAGE 3

Click here for some exemplar medium term schemes of work for the revised National Curriculum.

The SATs may be no more but there are still some useful resources around. See the two below.

SATS revision materials      

The Tempest by William Shakespeare - Scheme of Work 2008.

(For more Shakespeare resources see Heads of English section above).

READING

Want to know more about how to teach and assess reading? 

Click here for self-study training resources and teaching materials.   

Want to more about how to improve pupils' progress in reading, writing, speaking and listening? Click here to try this learning course - Increasing Progress in English

The National Strategy Suggested Teaching Sequences (powerpoint document)

English QCA assessment focuses for reading and writing

Chance Chart for Key Stage 3 (powerpoint document) 

STARTERS 

Wordswork  - English problems for Key Stage 1, 2 and 3. There are now 21 Wordswork Resources for Key Stage 3.

Literacy Across the Curriculum 

 For subject specific department training in Literacy click here. 

Functional Skills

To understand how Functional Skills links with the National Curriulum see the two documents below.  

Functional Skills in English KS3  icon   Functional Skills in English KS4 icon

NEW!! QCDA's National Standards for Functional Skills. These were revised in November 2009.  NEW FS criteria for English (Nov 09) 

Don't know a lot about Functional Skills in English? Begin with the introductory training folder here - Functional Skills in English training icon