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Secondary

We offer resources, research, best practice, professional development and news to help you deliver outstanding literacy provision in secondary schools and alternative provision settings.
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Annual Literacy Survey 2025

Would you like to know what your pupils think about reading, writing, speaking and listening? Take part in our survey that explores children and young people’s literacy behaviours, attitudes and enjoyment. Participating schools receive a personalised school report outlining their findings.

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Secondary resources

Inspire and motivate pupils with our teaching resources to support and improve literacy provision at secondary school.

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Secondary professional development

We offer secondary CPD and workshops for leaders, teachers and subject specialists across the curriculum to develop a whole-school approach to literacy, equipping staff with innovative strategies and practical ideas.

Our secondary conference and seminar events celebrate best practice and explore the issues most significant to secondary practitioners through a combination of thought-leadership keynote presentations and interactive workshops.

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Secondary programmes

Our secondary programmes help students develop their literacy skills to succeed at school and in their future lives.

  • Literacy for Learning is our whole-school literacy improvement programme for secondary teachers and leaders.
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  • Words for Work is the National Literacy Trust’s flagship communication and aspirations programme.
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  • Giving students the opportunity to visit iconic cultural venues in their local area as inspiration for writing their own poems supported by a local professional poet.
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  • Inspiring the next generation of mystery writers drawing on the thrilling work of Agatha Christie!
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  • A poetry-based programme supporting schools to explore writing as a therapeutic, self-sustaining, and low-cost tool to promote the wellbeing of their young people.
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  • Discover our social action writing programme that empowers young people to share the stories that matter to them with a real audience and to drive change.
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  • Our national reading campaign that supports and celebrates reading culture within schools.
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Secondary: Alternative Provision

Our range of programmes that have been specially developed to support both students who have been excluded and those who are at risk of exclusion.

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