Here at St Gerard's Catholic Primary School in Birmingham, we have been working with the Literary Tree since September 2021.The immediate response was extremely positive from teachers and children when first implemented. It was their excitement about the varying texts…
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Brigstock Lathams CE Primary School is a single-form school in rural Northamptonshire. As a small village school, we have mixed-age classes and the configuration of these varies from year to year depending on pupil numbers. We have Reception/Y1, Y2, Y3/4,…
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We are a British School based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Working with an almost exclusively EAL population, we are always seeking ways to increase the students' exposure to high-quality language and to prompt deeper thinking about the wider world.…
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Barlborough Hall is a co-educational independent day school and nursery on the border of North Derbyshire and South Yorkshire. During our English review in 2022, we decided that our English needed a shake up and we needed to increase the amount…
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Woodlea is a one form entry school in the North East of England. During the phases of lockdown - our small school network merged into a single entity - which stumbled across the Literacy Tree whilst looking for a new…
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After more than a decade of teaching Literacy the same way, through a tried and tested storytelling approach, we regularly saw results inline with and above national from EYFS-Year 6 year on year. However, increasingly we felt the need to…
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Amherst is a three-form entry primary school in Guernsey, Channel Islands. We started our journey with Literacy Tree in January 2023. After a change in leadership in September 2022, we reflected on our literacy provision and realised we had gotten…
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Ashford Park is a large, increasingly diverse, three form entry primary school located close to Heathrow Airport, right on the edge of Surrey. Our vision of ‘Inspiring a love for life-long learning’ is at the heart of everything that we…
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We are a one form entry primary school in north Sheffield. We are above average in terms of Free School Meals, ranked in the 85th – 100th percentile group. The background of the pupils gives the school a deprivation score…
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We are a two-form entry primary school in an increasingly diverse urban area. We plan our curriculum carefully to reflect our community, which is changing fast, and Literacy Tree texts and sequences fit perfectly with our values and ethos. Teachers…
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At The Grange School, Daventry we have placed reading and books at the heart of our curriculum, in order to introduce the children to a world beyond our small, market town. Our curriculum aim is for all our children to…
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As a Multi Academy Trust, we have 5 primary schools and 4 secondary schools. We began our Literacy Tree journey around 4 years ago when one of our primary schools, Whiston Willis, implemented the book-based approach, closely followed by Yew…
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We are a small one form entry school in the heart of Peckham. Each year, a large proportion of our children who join our school are well below age related expectations in reading and writing. Literacy Tree’s Literary Leaves,…
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A few years ago, our school made the decision to really focus on putting reading and books at the heart of our curriculum. We felt that by using books as the drivers for our writing curriculum children would have further…
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'At The Grove, we love books and we believe that they can open our minds to new ideas, new worlds and new adventures. Therefore, from the start of their journey with us, we want the children to be immersed in…
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Three years ago, Literacy Tree struck a chord for us. As an infant school our academic standards were good. However, with a changing demographic and decline in on entry standards, particularly around vocabulary, we recognised a need to revise our…
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Our Journey with Literacy Tree My personal journey started many years ago when I worked in the UK. In 2019 I relocated to San Jose, Costa Rica to be the principal of a primary school. The challenge that was set…
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Five years ago, we identified a need to drastically reform our English curriculum so that it was driven by high-quality texts that would bring learning to life for our children. As a result, we sought the help and advice of…
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The first thing we did after deciding to go with Literacy Tree's approach was to purchase one copy of every text in the scheme. After laying them all out in the hall, in the order they would be taught, we…
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When I look at the children’s books now I can see that Writing is where they take a leap of faith, try on another person’s shoes, venture an opinion they may not be sure of, report about something brand new…
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At Limpsfield C.E. Infant School, we have implemented Literary Tree for nearly two academic years. In that time, we have begun to integrate the holistic approach to reading and writing offered by Literacy Tree into our own provision, and have…
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Waterside is an SEMH primary school and as such, many of our children join us after a tricky time in a mainstream school. They often arrive feeling as though school isn’t somewhere they can be successful and with unusual gaps…
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Sellincourt School are one of the newer schools to join the Literacy Tree family, and that is exactly how it feels, being a part of something rather than simply having bought a product. Literacy Tree team are highly accessible and…
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Our Literacy Tree journey began four years ago when we decided that we wanted our English curriculum to be firmly rooted in high quality children’s literature. We are a large international school, catering for students of over 70 nationalities, many…
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"We have worked with Literacy Tree as part of our large multi academy trust (more than 20 primary schools). Many of our schools were already using a book based approach to literacy but this had, over the years, lost progression…
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'We started looking into using Literacy Tree plans about 3 years ago. We wanted to adopt a book basked approach throughout the school and ensure there was consistency in what we were teaching. We began by trialling it in Year…
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"We have all done it... scrolled through the internet looking for concepts to inject some new ideas into our teaching methods. Our journey started about a year ago when as English Coordinator I started to look for a different approach…
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"English at St John's needed some life breathing into it and that is exactly what Literacy Tree has done for us in the last year. The themes and lessons are both engaging and exciting and the plans are full of…
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"I became Headteacher at my new school in May 2018 and there were some whole class books with the new grammar content crammed in higher up the school and topics were mostly based around genre. Very often, each genre lasted…
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"In our first year of implementing and working working with Literacy Tree, our children’s love and knowledge of literature has grown exponentially and our staff are thoroughly enjoying teaching the planning sequences. Because of the quality texts, bespoke CPD and expert…
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"Van Gogh Primary opened its doors in September 2018 as an academy converter. Based on book reviews and pupil interviews, it was clear that the children did not see themselves as writers and their writing was flat. There appeared to…
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"Since starting to work with Literacy Tree, the standards of writing have soared at Dalmain Primary School. Children absolutely love the range of writing opportunities available through this book-based approach, and numerous parents and carers have commented on their child’s…
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"We implemented Literacy Tree across the school at the beginning of this academic year and the rapid results we are seeing already are outstanding. Exposing our children to high quality, age-appropriate literature from a range of authors has allowed them…
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"Children at Dulwich Wood have developed a real love of reading and awareness of authors since we started using Literacy Tree resources. Because each sequence begins with a hook that enthuses and engages the children, it offers creative and real…
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"At Highgate, we have been using Literacy Tree materials for almost 2 years now and the impact on our writing culture and on pupil independence has been phenomenal. Prior to using the materials, many struggled to see themselves as writers…
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