At KS2 the English curriculum is led by a specialist teacher and designed with two major aims.

• To develop skills in reading, reading comprehension and writing (including spelling) that will support learning across the curriculum at KS3 and 4

• To ensure that pupils are able to explore literature and express themselves, both in writing and orally, at age and developmentally appropriate levels. This would be scaffolded to support any barriers to learning which are presented by literacy or language and communication skills.

Each pupil has individual targets for literacy development that will be worked on through challenging and engaging class-based literacy and writing tasks. We aim to develop a love of literature and writing so that literacy learning has a meaningful context. One lesson a week will be an IT lesson where the pupils will develop the skills needed to allow them to read and write accurately, fluently and independently. The pupils will be taught how to use spell checks accurately, how and when to use text to speech or speech to text facilities, touch typing, use of predictive text and using IT to support proof reading.   

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The English schemes of learning at both KS3 and KS4 concentrate on building and consolidating the key skills that will prepare students for the best possible outcome at KS4 whatever their level of entry. These skills are embedded in themed examples and content which allow the sharing of vocabulary and ideas with other subjects taught at The Levels School. Often, what makes dyslexic students so special is their ability to make links and the content of both schemes allows students to do this confidently.  As a skills driven curriculum for English, it means that it is a unique curriculum in that it can be personalised and adapted to suit individual needs and promote progress. Each lesson focuses on using the shared literacy based vocabulary and building confidence when talking about work and progress across the half termly schemes and the year group.