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.
CPD and Consultancy
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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
Red Rose Letters and Sounds
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.
What's New
- Y1 Phonics Check 2012 – 2024
- Telling the Story - Summary and Support Document
- Ofsted Soundbites Summer 2024
- End of KS2 Standardisation Materials 23-24 - samples of WTS/EXS/GDS with commentaries
- End of KS2 Standardisation Materials 22-23 – samples of WTS/EXS/GDS with commentaries
- Updated - English Events Calendar 2024/2025
- NEW - The Lion and Albert - Year 6 Unit
- NEW - Subscription Resource - Writing Health Check 2024
- Free Resource - Updated Reading Deep Dive March 2024
- Free Resource - The Reading Framework - Support Documents for School Leaders
- Free Resource: LPDS English Planning Template
Contact the English and Literacy Team
Nicola Martin (Senior Teaching and Learning Consultant, Primary English and Literacy)
Resources and Support
Reading and Writing
A collection of free and premium reading and writing resources and guidance.
Subscription required for access to premium content.
Phonics
A list of free phonics resources and guidance.
For Red Rose Letters and Sounds - see section above.
English EYFS
Early Years Support for English and Literacy. Annual subscription required for Premium Resource access.
VLOG
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.
Publications
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Evidence-based publications to aid your classroom practice. From our Award-winning English and Literacy Team.
New Publications
Primary Sentence Toolkit
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.
Key Learning in Spoken Language
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.
Brand New English Planning Units
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.
