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During the first stage, you will need to gather information about the current Literacy situation in your school to determine your current position. This process will identify any strengths and establish key areas for improvement.
Aims
Aims
To gain an understanding of the school’s current provision and standards in Literacy.
To identify the barriers and enablers that contribute to this
Possible Actions
Possible Actions
Staff skills audit
Work scrutiny
Planning review
Discussions with staff members
Personalised assessment data
Pupil voice
Important Considerations
Important Considerations
What is the school's language category? How will this affect literacy across the curriculum?
Which departments are already demonstrating effective practice?
How broad are the experiences currently offered?
Which departments require significant support?
Are there any consistent factors? e.g. current expectations around literacy in every classroom; current expectations for Cymraeg across the curriculum.
What are the current planning models for implementing literacy progressively?
Is there a relation between the skills taught through language lessons, the embedding of the Cymraeg and cross-curricular application of these skills?
What are the opportunities outside of the classroom?
Useful Resources
Useful Resources
The purpose of this audit is to enable disciplines to evaluate the literacy skills that are an authentic part of their subject. It is also to tool to help subject leaders identify where professional learning needs are, to promote teaching which develops effective literacy skills for learners.
Make sure you are fully familiar with the Estyn guidance for the inspection of literacy in schools.
This compendium of thematic reports and supplementary materials describes practice that supports the successful development of learners’ listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in the language of the setting or school.
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