Detailed long term plans (LTPs) for year7,8,9,10 and 11 that have been created to reflect the new GCSE specification 9-1 skills. These detailed long term plans contain the following information: - The key concepts that are specific to that unit. - A clear outline of additional skills that are to be taught as part of the unit that help students to work towards the skills needed for other GCSE 9-1 examination components - speaking and listening is signposted The year 10/11 LTP contains interleaving strategies. Medium term plans available for the units outlined

CPD resources including power point presentations, evaluation forms and tasks to support the development of teachers in whole school literacy. The first CPD power point covers: - Pedagogy and research - Ofsted - removing the barriers to literacy - What literacy is - How it is different to English - Blooms taxonomy and 3 level questions - Inference and deduction - Ways of reading - Reading exam questions - Active reading strategies including cloze and restructuring The second CPD power point covers: - Note making skills - Reading critically - TAP analysis - critical literacy - interrogating and deconstructing texts - research skills Following the CPD session the idea is that staff go away and trial using one of the strategies to improve literacy in their subject areas and bring feedback to the next session.

Comment back for Media studies teachers in an excel file. The comments cover the following areas: - Pupil effort - Pupil homework - Pupil classwork - Pupil targets for improvement