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Secondary programmes

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

Words for Work

Words for Work is the National Literacy Trust’s flagship literacy and employability programme.
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Literacy for Life

Literacy for Life helps students develop the literacy skills they need to do well at school and in their future lives.
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Lyric Masters

Lyric Masters uses songwriting to encourage secondary school students to write for pleasure and purpose.
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Skills Academy

Skills Academy helps Year 7 and 8 students improve their reading, rewarding their progress by teaching them exciting freestyle football tricks, beatbox techniques and...
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Young City Poets

Young City Poets gives pupils the opportunity to visit famous cultural venues in their city, using the visits to inspire poetry.
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Inspire and motivate pupils with our teaching resources to support and improve literacy provision at secondary school.

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Language and Literacy within the Curriculum CPD

Develop literacy teaching across the secondary curriculum and get your students writing like experts in their subject
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Understanding the Literacy Requirements of the new GCSEs

Explore language features of different subjects and develop skills to embed literacy in your teaching
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Reading for Pleasure CPD

Engage with research and develop sustainable strategies to embed a culture of reading in your school and classroom
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We run exciting competitions every term to inspire young people and help improve their literacy.

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