If you work in secondary school, do you know what literacy intervention scheme your school uses

[roisin]

.. with yr7s arriving just below level 4 (or weak 4c)?

And is it any good? i.e. good conversion rate to Level 4s at Progress Tests?

Thanks,
Roisin

We're a middle school (Yrs 6-8) but will check for you when back in on Monday.

thanks

In my year group I have about 15% working towards national curriculum levels in literacy about another 10% at level 2, only half of our year group are at level 4 the average benchmark.

I don't like to rely soly on SATS data so we use reading and spelling tests , the lowest reading score in the year is 6. I then have booster classes and they do progress units in lessons. Last years groups responded well to booster classes although the effects were sometimes shortlived and the progress units.

We also do literacy activties in form time as well as handwriting activities.

We have programmes and strategies - individual and group - for those coming through on B or Level 2 or weak Level 3.

But I'm going to be involved with the weak Level 4s/high Level 2s ... i.e. the borderline students for NC-expectations.

We have increasing % of these students, but not to the level you describe Twinset. Can I ask what sort of 5A*-C percentage you get after 5 years?

We have massive underachivement in KS4 after doing very well at KS3 in terms of value added , it is about 30% which drops to around 20% when you include english and maths. I think this year we went up by about 5%.

BY the end of KS3 we get about 55* at level 4 or above in Maths, English and Science.

I am interested this year in offering support programmes for the students you describe, am seeking advice in school for how to do that.

That's interesting Twinset.

Our feeder primaries are excellent (loads of Outstanding Ofsted reports!). We then don't do so well at KS3, but pull up a bit at KS4. But overall our CVA is not good.

Does anyone else know what materials their schools use for literacy boosters? (We use the DfES Literacy Progress Units, which are mostly pretty dry and dull and need a lot of imagination/creativity to inject a bit of life into them!)

We are in the top 10% in the country for CVA but just cannot mantain it in KS4, this is especially puzzling as our feeder primaries are not strong schools.

We also use the progress units and they do get results but perhaps not long term ones.