What We Offer
Roade English Hub provides support to local schools, academies and free schools to improve teaching of phonics, oracy and reading for pleasure.
Primary support includes:
- We invite schools to view best practice in action at our engagement events, please book here
- For those schools meeting the eligibility criteria, match funding of up to £3,000 is available to invest in resources and training;
- For those schools meeting eligibility criteria and chosen to be a partner school, £6000 is available for resources and training alongside up to six days of school to school support over an academic year by one of our specialist English teachers;
- For schools meeting the eligibility criteria, where appropriate, full audit of a school's early language and phonics provision carried out by one of our experienced Literacy Specialist, with support for further action planning.
- Training opportunities and an annual conference, please book here
Secondary support includes:
- For those schools meeting the eligibility criteria, match funding of up to £3,300 is available to invest in resources and training;
- For schools meeting the eligibility criteria, where appropriate, full audit of a school's reading, oracy and reading intervention provision carried out by one of our experienced Literacy Specialist, with support for further action planning.
- Training opportunities and an annual conference, please book here
- Up to three days of in school support from secondary Literacy Specialist
We will prioritise applications from schools that meet at least two of the following criteria:
- Lower than average percentage of pupils meeting the expected standard in the PSC;
- Low attainment in the bottom 20% of children;
- A higher than average proportion of children eligible for pupil premium;
- Ofsted judgement of Requires Improvement or Inadequate;
- A high proportion of groups considered hard to reach such as boys; and,
- Schools referred by local partners (e.g. NLEs, LAs, Opportunity Area teams).
The programme is open to all state-funded schools and academies in our designated area. If you are a Primary School who would like to apply for support from the English Hub please complete an online Self Referral Form
If you are a Secondary School who would like to apply for support from the English Hub please complete an online Self Referral Form