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Primary English and Literacy

Welcome to the Lancashire Primary English and Literacy page. Here you will find a great mix of expert guidance, exciting resources and interesting links that can help to impact teaching and learning in your primary classroom.

What's New

CPD and Consultancy

Course spotlight

Courses and programmes not to be missed in Summer / Autumn 2026

  • Summer Subject Leader Network Sessions - featuring Key Updates and a CPD Session on Adaptive Strategies

  • Red Rose Spelling

  • New Course! Handwriting from EYFS to Year 6

  • Red Rose Letters and Sounds

  • Developing Spoken Language Approaches to Underpin a Quality English Curriculum - Live Link Coming Soon

  • TALK Programmes - Live Link Coming Soon

  • Return to TALK - Live Link Coming Soon

View our comprehensive list of English Courses.

English Consultancy and School-based training for schools and other agencies can be tailored to meet the needs of individual members of staff, groups of staff, or the whole school staff team. These can be delivered by members of our English team on a full-day, half-day, staff meeting or an evening twilight basis.

Advice and support can be provided across a range of topics including:

  • improving subject knowledge (eg phonics, spelling, reading, writing, grammar) for teachers and teaching assistants

  • support for the English Subject Leader to audit, monitor and implement action plans

  • planning units of work with individual teachers

  • assessing reading and writing for every year group; moderating reading and writing with individual teachers and/or Subject Leaders

  • working with Subject Leadership teams to support action planning and monitoring.

We can provide bespoke packages of support including the above, tailored to meet the needs of your school.

Contact Nicola Martin - Senior Consultant for English and Literacy

"The course presenter was a brilliant facilitator - super-friendly, and the course was delivered superbly."

English Lead from a Primary School in Salford

Supporting English: Audit Tools

Additional English Subject Leader support materials can be found on our designated English Subject Leader pages

Planning Support Tools

Additional resources can be found on our full Reading and Writing pages

On-Demand Training

View our current range of On-Demand Primary English and Literacy training. Check back regularly for new sessions.

Red Rose Programmes and Schemes

The Primary English and Literacy Team at Lancashire Professional Development Service (LPDS) have developed a new systematic, synthetic phonics planning programme using the Letters and Sounds approach titled Red Rose Letters and Sounds.

"My EYFS/Key Stage 1 teacher is really seeing the impact in her children's writing from us consistently using Lancashire's Red Rose Letters and Sounds SSP for the past two years. Changing our phonics scheme was an outcome from our last OFSTED, so we've been keen to measure the impact, which we've seen in our improved phonics check results too! We are excited to begin our Red Rose Spelling journey into Y2 and beyond next year."

Headteacher in a Lancashire School

Red Rose Spelling provides a structured approach that supports children as they move beyond early phonics into confident, accurate spelling. The programme offers clear progression, practical resources and expert‑led guidance that strengthens daily teaching and improves outcomes in writing. Explore the full suite to see how it can support your curriculum.

Publications

View our full range

Evidence-based publications to aid your classroom practice. From our Award-winning English and Literacy Team.

New Publications

Sentences are essential building blocks to written composition. Without a secure understanding of sentences and what a sentence does, the success of children’s written compositions will always be limited.

Based upon the expectations outlined in the National Curriculum, this publication will support teachers to plan spoken language opportunities in English and across the curriculum. Publication available electronically for instant download.

The Lion and Albert - Year 6

This unit has been designed to provide Year 6 teachers with both modelled and independent writing opportunities to support writing assessment judgements at the end of Key Stage 2.

Year 1, Autumn 2 - Fire! Fire!

Year 2, Spring 1 - Explorers

Year 3, Autumn 2 - Healthy Humans

Year 4, Spring 2 - Passport to Europe

Year 5, Spring 2 - Inventors and Inventions

Year 6, Summer 2 - Oh! I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside

Resources and Support

A collection of free and premium reading and writing resources and guidance.

Subscription required for access to premium content.

Early Years Support for English and Literacy.

Annual subscription required for Premium Resource access.

Watch the monthly VLOG episode from the Teaching and Learning Consultants for Primary English and Literacy. Covering topical areas like a Deep Dive in Reading.