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=**__Links for Staff__**=

Department Development:


 * __The documents below should be adapted and completed each year by Subject Leader. 2009/10:__**





For English teachers to complete each year:

=**__Data__**=



[|www.raiseonline.org] (Username: JBarto969 Password: ZnpB$7+X)

[|www.ssatrust.org.uk/results] (jaybarton@hotmail.co.uk, woodkitten84)




 * __KS3 Assessment Performance Data__**


 * __KS3 Exam Analysis Data:__**

To Inform Teaching in Year 8:

To Inform Teaching in Year 9:



To Inform Teaching In Year 10:


 * __English/Maths Targeted Students in KS4:__**

Upload the students and predicted grades in relevant subjects to get a Venn diagram and plan strategies/interventions for selected students:





- a document outlining intervention strategies for Challenge Groups


 * __KS4 Performance Tracking:__**





=**__Admin__**=

Internal Email: [|www.outlook.com]

[|**Heartlands E-Portal**] - E-Portal

Download an adjustable template for your seating plans:

Adjustable Detention Letter (to be printed out on headed paper):

Memo to Form Tutor if student misses a detention:

=**__General Teaching and Learning Resources__**=

'Jazz-up' your lessons with TEEP ideas/resources and activities including a wealth of adaptable starter and plenary ideas:

Download further adaptable plenary games:

[|www.teachit.co.uk] - a useful resource bank.

Literacy and Learning - a whole-school approach to improve literacy across the curriculum

End of KS3 exams resources for assessment (including AF posters, schemes of work and revision materials)

=**__Display__**=

All English classrooms should have the minimum of these posters on display. Teachers should arrange for them to be printed and laminated.



These should be divided between the three walls of 'Achievement', 'Reading' and 'Writing' so students know where to access the posters in a collaborative learning environment. To download a guide to accomplishing this, look at the document below:

=**__Revised Curriculum KS3__**=

Read all about the new programmes of study:

Framework Objectives for the Revised Curriculum:

Plan a new scheme of work using the template below:

Planning a new scheme? Download and print the front cover:

Expectations when planning a new scheme of work:

Ask the centre leader of a different centre to fill in this BEFORE you plan to give your scheme a cross-curricular edge:

Lesson structure :

=**__Developing Reading and Writing:__**=

Use the RaW Mats to develop reading and writing skills across specific assessment focuses:

__Writing__

Writers as Designers - key questions all good writers ask themselves:


 * Persuasion/Argument** - 9 lesson scheme of work/resources/teacher notes/additional activities


 * __Reading__**

Short of ideas for reading activities? Download the document below:

Lots of ideas to improve students' understanding of non-fiction texts:

Strategies to improve specific AF focuses and a blank Reading Improvement Plan Template - THIS IS ESSENTIAL WHEN MODIFYING YOUR SCHEMES TO DEVELOP SPECIFIC AFs:

A downloadable document for parents/carers to enable them to support their childs' development as a reader: (to be given out on Review days/parents evening in Year 7+8)

=**__Inspirations__**=

All of these videos are available from Teachers TV:

[|Moving Your English Lesson From Good To Outstanding]

[|An English Lesson from a former teacher of the year]

[|Some Different Ideas For Teaching Grammar]

[|Alternative Poetry Strategies]

[|Using Drama To Improve Performance in Much Ado Paper in SATs]

[|Managing EAL - Plotting Progress]

[|The Future of English]

[|The Debates Over Phonics Teaching]

[|Using Businesses - Coaching Interview Techniques]

=**__Continuing Professional Development__**=

What are your strengths. What would you like to develop? The department uses a 'buddy' system of professional development where staff are matched to gain mutual skill-specific experience through observations/feedback etc

Complete the form below and hand to Subject Leader:



Below are links to organisations that offer courses in different aspects of English. Find one that offers you a chance with your priority areas for development in line with teh Staff Skills Audit and Performance Managment Targets: :

http://www.creativeeducation.co.uk/

http://www.dragonfly-training.co.uk/

http://www.bhamteep.info/