Case studies

Implementing Literacy Progress Units

How the Key Stage 3 National Pilot links into our school's own priorities

Chris Martindale, head of English, describes how timetable changes and innovative ways of managing cover requirements have helped the school to implement the Literacy Progress Units programme.

Featherstone High School is a mixed, community school with 824 pupils on roll, located on the outskirts of Wakefield, West Yorkshire. The school places literacy high on its list of priorities. A strategy for raising standards was already in place at the beginning of the Pilot. Much work had been done with all subject departments to implement a whole school literacy policy. The Pilot was seen as an opportunity to strengthen this work.