LNF
The National Literacy and Numeracy Framework (LNF)
The LNF is designed to help teachers embed literacy and numeracy into all subjects for learners in Wales aged 5 to 14.
How is the LNF used nationally?
The Framework is a curriculum planning and assessment tool, identifying clear annual expected outcomes in literacy and numeracy for all learners aged 5 - 14. Both primary and secondary schools use the Framework to make sure that the teaching of literacy and numeracy is embedded in all subjects across the curriculum rather than just in English and Maths lessons alone. The framework allows all teachers to monitor student progress against year on year expectations for literacy and numeracy and help schools identify how best to challenge and support all of their learners.
The LNF sets the skills we expect learners to develop.
Within literacy we expect learners to become accomplished in:
- oracy across the curriculum
- reading across the curriculum
- writing across the curriculum.
Within numeracy we expect learners to become accomplished in:
- developing numerical reasoning
- using number skills
- using measuring skills
- using data skills.
Teachers will be able to use the LNF to:
- develop curriculum content to ensure that all learners have opportunities to develop and refine the skills set out in the LNF
- integrate literacy and numeracy into their teaching – whatever the subject matter
- inform discussions with parents/carers, learners and other teachers about learner performance
- help learners with their own self-assessment activities and planning for learning
- monitor, assess and report on individual learner performance
- identify learners who may benefit from intervention or who are working beyond age-related expectations.
How is the LNF used in St Julian’s?
All aspects of the Framework are delivered across all subjects in Years 7, 8 & 9. Staff will communicate to students when they are working on specific numeracy and literacy skills using our LNF skills breakdown chart. This document is displayed in all teaching classrooms and is also in student planners. The chart provides an overview of all the different skills the Framework covers so that students are able to make links to skills they have already covered in different lessons.
All schools must assess students’ progress against the LNF and report home to parents. The school uses the EAS LNF Tracker, a web based tracking tool, to monitor the progress of students and specify the areas of the LNF they are comfortably meeting and the areas in need of improvement. Parents will receive a literacy and numeracy report produced from the Tracker, alongside national test results in July.
If you have any questions or concerns linked to your child’s literacy and numeracy skills, further information can be found in the Literacy and Numeracy Intervention section.
Useful support documents and website links
