Welcome to Ilsham English Hub

One of 34 English Hubs appointed by the Department for Education that serve all the regions of England.

Ilsham English Hub has grown out of our base school, Ilsham C of E Academy, which is the founding school in the Learning Academy Partnership (School Trust). Ilsham C of E Academy was designated as an English Hub due to a track record of excellent phonics and reading outcomes.

Our commitment as an English hub is to place partnership and collaboration at the core of what we do. From the very beginning, we have sought innovative approaches to doing things differently - sharing and harnessing the outstanding practices already thriving in schools.

English Hubs Programme priorities:

In the Opportunities Mission, the department is committed to achieving a series of key pillars including 'the best start to life' and the aim to have every child achieving and thriving. The English Hubs programme aligns to support this ambition by driving up standards in reading and supporting a full school commitment to reading.

All support offered by the hub will promote at least one of the programme's priorities outlined below.

Age-appropriate phonics provision: encouraging best practices in SSP teaching from Reception to the end of Key Stage 1, and as the primary reading strategy throughout the school. This includes:

1. Encouraging fidelity to a single SSP programme.
2. Supporting the effective use of decodable books in the early stages of learning to rea, as a way of establishing phonic decoding.
3. Supporting effective practice in formative assessment in relation to phonics/early reading.
4. Demonstrating neutrality across validated SSP programmes and ensuring they are all represented equally and fairly. While hubs can model good practice using their school's current SSP programme, any marketing or social media activity carried out by hubs should be neither misleading nor critical of other programmes.

Promoting a love of reading: encouraging reading for enjoyment, including by supporting whole-school reading approaches, reading to children at least once a day and encouraging reading at home, developing teachers' knowledge of appropriate children's literature.

Early language development: providing evidence-based approaches to early language development and closing the word gap in school-based early years settings.

Supporting reading fluency: encouraging schools to take a strategic, evidence-informed approach to understand how to build on phonics and with support across KS1 and KS2. The ultimate aim is to improve reading assessment outcomes in KS2.

Supporting secondary schools: supporting secondary schools to establish reading as a strategic priority, improve outcomes for pupils with reading needs and increase knowledge on supporting reading at secondary level.

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