Literacy hour...

[mamaLou13]

Does anybody know where the literacy hour initiative came from? I can't find it anywhere?

According to this LSE discussion it comes from the National Literacy Project 1996

cee.lse.ac.uk/ceedps/ceedp43.pdf

It went out of flavour years ago. Don't quote me on it, but I think it was around 2006 (based on my own memory).

Maths hour is still pretty much the way it was at the start: mental oral starter, introduction to lesson, independent work, plenary.

Lots of schools now do the Big Write too, so that changes the traditional 15 minutes' starter, 30 minutes' lesson, 15 minutes' plenary approach.

thank you

There never was a maths/numeracy hour ...

Can someone tell me exactly what 'traditional' means. I have always thought that it was something that had been done for generations, or at least a very significant number of years. Now it seems to be applied to something that has been going on for, oooh, at least 10 years...

There was nothing like a 15 min starter, 30 min lesson, 15 mins plenary when I was at at school. But then, that was practically back in mediaeval times, so perhaps too early to establish a 'tradition'

It was a lot earlier than that Juniper. Based on knowing which school I was in when we first had to start implementing it, I'd say around 1998 (which links with the first reply)

I had a sand timer to keep me on track. God, how I hated the literacy hour.
It was the beginnings of many children starting to think that all literature came as an extract or a poster, and never getting to grips with an extended text.

yes, I remembe which school I was in when it was being introduced...

I must be iron age if I remember teaching before it came in.

We piloted it in 1996

It's OK mrz, I get this all the time at work.
Come visit me in my roundhouse, we can daub and wattle and reminisce about The Old Days. We trialled it in 1997, then it steamrollered through the whole school in 1998.

Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. I was saying I think it went out of fashion in 2006. No idea when it started.

I know Mathis has never officially been taught as an hour, but lots of schools see it this way.

In our case it went out of fashion in 1997 when we completed the pilot