SCHOOL:Knockavoe School DATE: November 2016 October 2017

LITERACY ACTION PLAN

SCHOOL: Knockavoe School DATE: November 2016 –October 2017

PRIORITY AREA FOR DEVELOPMENT: Raising Standards: Celebration of Success/ Teaching & Learning/ Library

PROCESS OF IDENTIFICATION: School Development Plan: Aim 1

Success Criteria Approaches to be Used How will we get there? Targets to be Achieved How will we know when we’ve got (including external links) Baseline Position (Qualitative and Quantitative) there? e.g. Business/Education Where are we now? Where do we want to go? (Qualitative) (Quantitative Partnership)

RAISING AWARENESS OF LITERACY

Literacy Provision has been very much at the core of Knockavoe for the past three - Celebrate pupils’ Literacy - Each classroom will have a - Co-ordinator to explain to teachers what is years, due to its’ prominent role on the achievement. designated area in the classroom expected. School Development Plan. There is a lot which will show pupil success in of great teaching and learning activities the area of Literacy. - Examples of wall displays to be shown to teachers. taking place within each classroom and - These wall displays will be these should be celebrated by the entire changed at least once a term. -Deadline for first wall display given before school community. - Pupil success will be shared on Literacy Team member photographs display. school website. - Pupil success will be included on -Examples of pupils work and photographs of HIGH QUALITY TEACHING AND Language & Literacy Newsletter. success will be uploaded on school website. LEARNING

A Sensory Literacy target was on the previous Action Plan. This target afforded a sensory sub-group the opportunity to - Provide ICT training for staff on creating collate and share sensory literacy ideas sensory literacy stories. with the whole school during a sharing - Inform staff of current Sensory Literacy - Sensory Literacy Program - Sensory Literacy program resources and stories. good practice event. During that session, implemented across all classrooms. referenced and evaluated on all - Provide staff with information sheet on and afterwards, all teachers expressed teacher’s planners. the desire for their knowledge, skills and sensory literacy activities e.g. writing activities. experience of sensory literacy to be - Evidence of pupil progress - Sharing Good Practice event with departments (photographic / teacher for sensory stories. developed. It was also highlighted and evaluation). agreed that sensory stories could be used in all classrooms. Writing continues to be an area of development for Knockavoe’s Literacy Provision. An audit completed in April/May 2015 highlighted that there was limited consistency in the teaching of writing genres across Key Stages. The previous action plan addressed this - KS1, 2 & 3 teachers collaboratively plan to through introducing the collaboration teach a specific genre of writing during each between KS 1 2 & 3 when planning and planner cycle. - Writing genre referenced and - KS2 & 3 Teachers share good practice after teaching writing genres. Report writing - Improve quality of teaching & learning evaluated on all teacher’s teaching each genre. was taught like this. The success of this of ‘Writing’ by collaboratively planning planners. - ICT/ Media is included in lessons. needs to be built upon and collaboration and teaching selected writing genres - Evidence of pupil progress during planning and teaching writing across Key Stage 1, 2 & 3. (photographic / teacher genres should be developed. evaluation).

LIBRARY Knockavoe library stock was catalogued and became available for pupils to borrow in Term 2 of the 2015/16 academic year. A Library Questionnaire (Oct 16) highlighted that while all classes make use of the library, pupil access is still a difficulty due to size/ resources etc.

-Trial use of library stock trolley. -Organise termly story telling sessions with - Photographic evidence of pupils appropriate seating / space for all classes. from all classrooms accessing - Informal discussions with class teachers Knockavoe’s Library provision. regards provision for their classes. - Knockavoe’s Library provision will be - Area available within Library for suggestions accessed by all pupils in order to about how to make our library provision more foster a love of books. accessible.

MONITORING STRATEGIES:

- Targets to be time allocated and responsibility of achieving targets to be shared by all members of the Team. - Monthly Language and Literacy Team meetings to address target progress. - Informal discussion with staff used to help monitor target progress. - Minutes of meetings/ evaluations from training used to monitor progress. Resources and Support Responsibility for Effect on Learning and Teaching Completion Date Required Action - Celebrating pupil success within Literacy should have a positive effect on Teaching and Learning by motivating Language and Literacy October 2017 pupils, providing opportunities for self-evaluation/ peer- Literacy EA Team Team evaluation and ensuring there is a high expectation for Literacy. Celebrating Literacy success should also help SMT Knockavoe School improve parental involvement. Knockavoe Parents - High Quality Teaching and Learning across all Key Stages will be developed as a result of this Action Plan. Sensory Literacy Programmes should be available within each classroom, thus ensuring high quality teaching and learning is accessible for all our pupils. Writing collaboration will ensure pupils progress within all areas of writing. - An effective School Library provision, which is accessible by all our pupils should inspire, motivate and promote teaching and learning in the school.

EVALUATION STRATEGIES:

- Evaluation of Action Plan will be completed by Language and Literacy Team in October 2017. - Examples of pupils’ work will be used to track their progress. - Assessment outcomes will be used to inform planning.

Chair – Board of Governors Principal

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