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Ofsted Briefing Notes

• Overall effectiveness has a greater emphasis on literacy

• If literacy progress is judged to be inadequate then the school will be judged to be inadequate

• The emphasis needs to be on the whole school taking responsibility for developing literacy

We are already using:

Common annotation

Students have this in their organiser – we should now be

marking according to the marking grid

AF1: To write

imaginative, interesting

and thoughtful

texts

AF2: To produce texts which

are appropriate

to task, reader and

purpose

AF3: To

organise and

present wholetexts

effectively

AF4: To

construct paragraphs

and cohesion within and between

paragraphs

AF5: To vary

sentences for clarity, purpose

and effect

AF6: To write

with technical

accuracy of syntax and punctuation

AF7: To select

appropriate and

effective vocabulary

AF8: To use correct

spelling

Literacy AF Posters

We are already using these in each classroom

Know your connectives

Use of connectives explicitly taught – poster

in each classroomWe are already using these in

each classroom

Ofsted also now says that:

• Reading: All pupils need to be able to access the whole curriculum

• Reading aloud will happen in secondary schools

Implications: RA and SA below 8 yrs

• Basic rules for literacy not been absorbed• Very low self-esteem• Worry about reading aloud• Reading back notes copied from board

impossible• Extra information during writing not absorbed• Copying might be letter by letter• Rather be seen as clowns/lazy

• Can access simple text without hidden meanings so may appear to manage with support

• Still miss large chunks of information unless checked orally

• Eligible for a reader at GCSE• Words with more than 2 syllables will be very

difficult

Implications: RA and SA between 8 and 10

• Won’t want to be noticed in class• Realise that their literacy skills are limited• Some strategies for managing but not always

reflecting their true level of understanding• Problems interpreting written questions in a

stressful situation• Handwriting speed may be adequate so not

eligible for readers/scribes

Implications: RA and SA above 10 but below 14

However……

• Out of 223 Year 10 students, 7.6% have a reading age of below 10 and 6.2 % of those have a reading age of below 8

• 65.9% of Year 10 students have a reading age of between 10 and 13.99.