Primary English and Literacy

Welcome to the Lancashire Primary English and Literacy page. Here you will find a great mix of expert guidance, exciting resources and interesting links that can help to impact teaching and learning in your primary classroom.

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CPD

CPD and Consultancy

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English Consultancy and School-based training for schools and other agencies can be tailored to meet the needs of individual members of staff, groups of staff, or the whole school staff team. These can be delivered by members of our English team on a full-day, half-day, staff meeting or an evening twilight basis.

Advice and support can be provided across a range of topics including:

  • Improving subject knowledge (eg Phonics, Spelling, Reading, Writing, Grammar) for teachers and teaching assistants
  • Support for the English Subject Leader to audit, monitor and implement action plans
  • Planning units of work with individual teachers
  • Assessing reading and writing for every year group; moderating reading and writing with individual teachers and/or Subject Leaders
  • Working with Subject Leadership teams to support action planning and monitoring

We can provide bespoke packages of support including the above, tailored to meet the needs of your school.

Contact Nicola Martin - Senior Consultant for English and Literacy

"The course presenter was a brilliant facilitator - super-friendly, and the course was delivered superbly."

English Lead from a Primary School in Salford

Red Rose Letters and Sounds

Red Rose Letters and Sounds

The Primary English and Literacy Team at Lancashire Professional Development Service (LPDS) have developed a new systematic, synthetic phonics planning programme using the Letters and Sounds approach titled Red Rose Letters and Sounds.

"My EYFS/Key Stage 1 teacher is really seeing the impact in her children's writing from us consistently using Lancashire's Red Rose Letters and Sounds SSP for the past two years. Changing our phonics scheme was an outcome from our last OFSTED, so we've been keen to measure the impact, which we've seen in our improved phonics check results too! We are excited to begin our Red Rose Spelling journey into Y2 and beyond next year."

Headteacher in a Lancashire School


Publications

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Evidence-based publications to aid your classroom practice. From our Award-winning English and Literacy Team.

New Publications

Primary Sentence Toolkit


Primary Sentence Toolkit

Sentences are essential building blocks to written composition. Without a secure understanding of sentences and what a sentence does, the success of children’s written compositions will always be limited.

Key Learning in Spoken Language

Key Learning in Spoken Language

Based upon the expectations outlined in the National Curriculum, this publication will support teachers to plan spoken language opportunities in English and across the curriculum. Publication available electronically for instant download.

New English Planning Units


Brand New English Planning Units

The Lion and Albert - Year 6

This unit has been designed to provide Year 6 teachers with both modelled and independent writing opportunities to support writing assessment judgements at the end of Key Stage 2.

Free Units


FREE Updated LPDS English Planning Units

Year 1, Autumn 2 - Fire! Fire!
Year 2, Spring 1 - Explorers
Year 3, Autumn 2 - Healthy Humans
Year 4, Spring 2 - Passport to Europe
Year 5, Spring 2 - Inventors and Inventions
Year 6, Summer 2 - Oh! I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside


Resources and Support

Reading and Writing

Reading and Writing

A collection of free and premium reading and writing resources and guidance.

Subscription required for access to premium content.

Phonics


Phonics

A list of free phonics resources and guidance.

For Red Rose Letters and Sounds - see section above.

English EYFS

English EYFS

Early Years Support for English and Literacy. Annual subscription required for Premium Resource access.

VLOG


VLOG

Watch the monthly VLOG episode from the Teaching and Learning Consultants for Primary English and Literacy. Covering topical areas like a Deep Dive in Reading.

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