Secondary English 

The LLC Team offers a wide range of professional learning opportunities. Please see the EAS Professional Learning Offer for English and literacy, including opportunities provided by Partner Schools. 

Please use the contents page on page 2 to direct you to our current PL offer. 

The LLC English Partner schools engage in activity to provide support which is accessible by all schools in our region. Lead teachers and school colleagues are:

• creating, trialling, sharing resources for teachers and pupils through our English and Literacy networks, Professional Learning offer and Supporting Our Schools site;

• providing bespoke support for middle leaders, teachers and teaching assistants, brokered through the Curriculum Partner: leanne.avery@sewaleseas.org.uk

Full list of EAS Partner Schools can be found here. 

In 2023-2024, a selection of primary and secondary schools were represented by teachers on Teach like a Champion 'Reading Reconsidered' professional learning programme. Participants were trained on strategies to improve the proficiency of pupils’ reading. Please see below a selection of case studies produced by participants.

 For further information, visit https://teachlikeachampion.org/books/reading-reconsidered/

During 2022-2023, the schools in the St Julian's Cluster undertook an Action Research Project, around the research question: What could progress in vocabulary look like across the learning continuum? Across the two primary schools and the secondary school, colleagues considered how do to support the acquisition of vocabulary through the selection of words to be explicitly taught, effective pedagogical practice and targeted professional learning. Watch a recording of their work presented at the Cross-Regional LLC Network in November 2023, and view the slides used here. 

NEW EAS Top Ten Reading Response resources

These materials have been developed by the EAS Curriculum Partner and the LLC Primary English and Literacy Curriculum Partner schools. The previously popular Top Ten teaching and learning resources have been updated to highlight the potential reading comprehension skills that can be developed through the use of these learning activities.  These new resources will provide adaptable templates for teachers and pupils, and exemplification will be added over the coming weeks and months, as teachers use these resources with their pupils.  

Behind each image you will find an overview document which provides:

• a description of the activity for the teacher

• sample pupil proformas to use and adapt as required

• suggested reading comprehension skills and strategies which could be developed by using the reading activity

• possible writing text types, purposes and forms resulting from the reading activity

• a selection of pupil samples from schools in our region

For any additional information, or to enquiry about bespoke school or cluster training in the use of these materials, please contact your Curriculum Partner catherine.mcmahon@sewaleseas.org.uk .

To access the 'original' EAS Top Ten materials, please use this link.