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=**__Literacy For Learning (LFL) Focus__**= From September 09, all students at Heartlands Academy will be focusing on specific aspects of English each week to help them to improve their overall writing skills. In all lessons, all staff will be encouraging students and reminding them via **'LFL Focus Objective'** posters to focus on a specific aspect of grammar (i.e **'Accurate Apostrophes'**) when completing work in class, adding a literacy objective to lessons across the curriculum. There is a different focus each week (ten in total in a repeating cycle) Subject teachers will mark work on a weekly basis, according to the literacy objective (and in line with marking policy) for that week and provide effective, comment-based feedback on literacy objective too.

Form Tutors will be sharing the Literacy For Learning (LFL) focus at Monday morning registration and students will be expected to

- Write the L4L focus in the allocated space in their planners for that week - Be aware of the L4L objective ('Checking Capital Letters') and review work thoroughly in order to meet the LFL objective each lesson - Read marking feedback from subject teachers and take an independent approach to strengthening each particular part of their writing using the department website and opportunities in English lessons BEFORE the next time it is the school's LFL Focus.

For more information on Literacy For Learning see your Form Tutor or Learning Manager or email: S.Rahnie@heartlands-academy.org.uk


 * TEACHERS: Do you have your 'Literacy For Learning Focus Objective' posters for your classrooms? Download one here - you'll need to laminate!

Find out the ten-objective Literacy For Learning cycle that will run continuously and how to use LFL in your lessons and marking by downloading the guide:**