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Developing Literacy

ADDITIONAL WAYS TO DEVELOP LITERACY

Subject:	Focus / Activity:	Literacy Link:
Art	Feedback books	Promoting independence and use of wider vocabulary
Business Economics Sociology Psychology	Regular discussion of additional reading that is promoted to students The department also lends books to students to promote additional reading Keywords set as homework to learn and use Writing skills lessons – focus on how to justify an argument KS5 expectation of wider reading with scaffolded activities in class to widen vocabulary and improve comprehension	Promoting reading for pleasure
Computing	Homework will include: Students will read a mini story about a programming concept, to which they will complete a comprehension task explaining what concept they have learnt with regards to the story Three new texts will be promoted they focus on Computational Thinking in a very creative way: Computational Fairy Tales Best Practices of Spell Design The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software. CODE	Promoting of wider reading and reading for pleasure
Drama	National Theatre New Views Competition Mrs Power and students from Year 11, and Year 13 are entering this competition Students study a variety of plays in all year groups and focus on putting the text into performance	Promotion of writing and reading for pleasure and performance
Drama and Music	School show: ‘Hairspray’ – Reading the play and learning the songs	Development of vocabulary Wider reading
English	Rotary Debating Creative Writing Club	Promoting a wider variety of reading and reading for pleasure Promoting the importance of vocabulary and imagination
Geography	Students are encouraged to read news articles about current Geography in the News Literacy based Starter twice a half term where students read a current news article and derive key points Promotion of keywords in all lessons. Sixth form have reading records they have to complete during a piece of additional reading	Promoting importance of vocabulary and effective reading skills that is around the subject
History	Students are encouraged to read news articles about History in the News Literacy based Starter twice a half term where students read a current news article and derive key points (more so for 6^th form) Promotion of keywords in all lessons. 6th form have reading records they have to complete during a piece of additional reading PAH students in Year 11 sent targeted articles to help with revision	Promoting importance of vocabulary and effective reading skills that is around the subject
Maths	As part of the Mastery curriculum, there is an expectation that students use correct Mathematical language in lessons. Students are regularly required to explain their reasoning and problem solving approaches in many different ways.	Promoting importance of vocabulary and effective reading skills
MFL	Students use grammatical terms every lesson as they explore and grow in their linguistical knowledge. Students engage with higher level language and understanding when grasping new concepts. Linguaspring Competition Spelling Bee	Developing language skills A competition focused around languages A competition focused around languages
Music	Orchestra, Concert band, Vocal Harmony, Crescendudes, Senior Choir, Ukulele group, keyboard club and Theory Club	Use of technical vocabulary used when performing and some subject specific to the instrument
RE	In Key Stage 3 students read various religious stories and answer questions on them Key terms are shown at the start of each lesson - activities are based on these Key words from part of the GCSE syllabus Sixth form complete wider reading to ensure knowledge and application of key terms	Promoting vocabulary and quotes around the topics
Science	Promotion of 'the language of science' and keywords in all lessons. Literacy based homework is built in to the curriculum at all key stages. There is an expectation for Sixth form students to undertake wider reading relating to the development of science throughout history and news articles.	Promotion of reading for pleasure and reading around topics
Technology	Students read recipes in food lessons. They also complete research for homework across Technology	Promoting independence Developing wider vocabulary Encouraging reading for pleasure

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