Is ELS (Early Literacy Support) still current/relevant?

[PantsyMcPantsface]

Sounds like DD2's been picked up for this - I know the general content of it - but as far as I was aware it hooked fairly strongly into the old Literacy Strategy that has long since gone out of the window. Is it still relevant or does it involve a lot of searchlights-based reading that's going to fuck up the habits I've just spent ages getting DD2 OUT of?! (The queen of guessing based on context for an easy life here)

I have other concerns about it - namely I suspect it's being used to get the class "personalities" out of the teacher's hair for 20 minutes a day and I don't think it's particularly appropriate for her areas of weakness (in terms of phonics and reading she's actually very very capable and just has a motor skills deficit making it hard for her to physically write) and the kid who's been bullying her for 2 years is in there with her - but I don't know the intervention well enough to know how they're approaching reading on this, but with it being the era it's from I suspect it's probably not a good idea for her!

ELS is very old. We stopped using it ages ago. You’re right it was part of the old National Literacy Strategy. Is she part of a motor skills group at all?

Confirms what I'm thinking somewhat - it was around when I did my nqt year and that was in a year that started with a 1 not a 2! Have a Sen review soon and going to query it - last thing she needs is guessing her way through texts encouraged after I had got her out of that habit too!

We get naff all in terms of support for her actual needs this year - it's letter formation and motor skills and hand strength she needs! Strongly suspect this is a "look we're doing something so leave us alone" measure!

We still use First Move( which is pretty old but good) for developing motor skills together with Write from the Start. You could ask about those!

ELS has a strong social and emotional aspect, do they think that she needs that?

At the expense of any relevance to today's reading and writing curriculum - do you think she needs that?

Reading the revised version of it it seems they re-wrote it to fit with Letters and Sounds rather than using the old NLS methods so I hope that's the version school are using (although I've seen the ringbinder lying around and it seems to be the old Literacy Strategy binder - guess they could have printed the revised version out and are just re-using it)... but it still does not seem like something that's at all relevant to DD whose phonics is really very very good (assuming they're using the updated version - and I'm not sure they are really).

As for emotional support - she's in a group with the kid who's been bullying her all the last 2 years!

Spanieleyes I do Write from the Start with her at home - in the absence of anything suitable going on at school this year (class teacher's attitude to SN is really shocking)