Literacy Workshop

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Literacy Workshop

• November 2009 for KS1 and KS2

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Extended Services

• All schools should be providing the Full Core
  Offer. This means that schools provide quality
  childcare, a varied menu of activities, have
  community use, parenting support and swift and
  easy access to specialist services.
• Although we have parent information meetings for
  each year group, the general consensus was that
  as a school, we needed to provide more in depth
  workshops for parents, based around literacy and
  numeracy.
• The view is to develop these into family
  learning sessions.

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Why are we having this workshop?

• Part of the Extended Services agenda is to
  provide parent information workshops, to develop
  family learning.
• Through parent discussions and consultations,
  literacy was highlighted as an area that parents
  wanted more information about, in order to help
  their children at home.
• We decided to run this workshop as an initial
  introduction, to give you a basic overview and to
  discover what you would like future workshops to
  contain.
• We felt, that in order to see what the interest
  would be for these type of workshops, we would
  hold a combined introductory session for Key
  stage one and two parents initially, with a view
  to holding family workshops for each key stage
  in the future.

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Literacy

• The Literacy curriculum incorporates the
  following areas
• Speaking and listening
• Reading
• Writing- this includes spelling and handwriting.

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Literacy in the Primary School

• Children in the Foundation Stage follow the
  Early Learning Goals, which are divided into
  four areas of learning. These are
• Language for communication and thinking
• Linking sounds and letters
• Reading
• Writing
• Once the early learning goals have been achieved,
  the children will progress to the National
  Curriculum.
• We follow the Primary Framework which is where we
  get the objectives for each year group.

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Words associated with Literacy

• Commonly used words/ sayings your child may use
  at home
• edingly
• Wow words
• Magpie - ing
• Big Write/ Power Write/ Big Talk

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Resources

• There are a variety of websites that may be of
  use to you and your child.
• Please take a sheet away with you when you leave
  today.

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What would you like?

• What would you like future workshops to contain?
• How can we help you?
• Please fill in the suggestion slip on your chair.