E-Reader Literacy
Taking every opportunity to help students develop their functional skills of literacy the LRC has been utilising ebook readers. Showing best practice around inclusion the e-reader...
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Taking every opportunity to help students develop their functional skills of literacy the LRC has been utilising ebook readers. Showing best practice around inclusion the e-reader...
Posted by Claire Till
Posted by Danielle Bowe
Posted by Danielle Bowe
Shakespeare’s play of the month is Hamlet. Set in Denmark, Hamlet is a play that explores conscience, madness and the nature of humanity. A young prince meets his father’s...
Posted by Natalie Stanton
Posted by Danielle Bowe
This week, I have had the pleasure of meeting with our new subject leaders for English. Luka Kovalevskyte, Prisha Tapre, Aagarsan Velautham and Myfanwy Taylor-Bean brought some...
Posted by Jade Denmark
The Young Writers’ Award is a competition for those between 11 and 18 years of age who have a passion for writing. The participants can write in various forms, for example:...
Posted by Lynn Court
Posted by Danielle Bowe
After one of the most challenging half term’s that most teachers can remember, it was good to listen to our inspirational Lead Practitioner for English and Whole School...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Posted by Danielle Bowe
Taking every opportunity to help students develop their functional skills of literacy the LRC has been utilising ebook readers. Showing best practice around inclusion the e-reader allows students to take advantage of text-to-speech facilities alongside those of the dictionary and adjustable text size. Building on our CDC reading program of following the text with their ruler while an adult reads the information the advantage of the text-to-speech facility is that it allows students to hear and see the text at the same time, thereby simulating our CDC experience and reinforcing processing skills for our students. Reinforcing our staff development strand of Lifting Literacy to the Next Level seeing and hearing text simultaneously will further develop all students as both confident readers and an eloquent speaker. The additional ability to change the text size also enables us to ensure that all students, including ones with impaired vision, are able to participate in every aspect of their learning and so, better cope with the demands of extended writing challenges of our curriculum areas. Do take a look at our Reading Cloud drop-down on the top of the home page for an insight into our LRC and the host of fiction and non-fiction texts that we stock.

Mythology with year 7 at the start of a new academic year is one of my favourite things to teach! All the students thoroughly enjoy learning the meaning behind myths, how they’re...
The Comedy of Errors is a five-act comedy by William Shakespeare and his shortest play. It was written in 1589–94 and first published in the First Folio of 1623 from Shakespeare’s...