LEARNING CENTRE Lifting literacy for Year 9s
College is committed to ensuring each boy’s learning is personalised and based on his individual learning needs.
In the Learning Centre, teacher Kate Morris is running a new Year 9 literacy programme for boys who have come to College with either significant learning needs, or gaps in their basic literacy skills. This programme offers expert tuition designed to lessen these gaps and equip boys with the skills they need to become independent learners. Boys with these needs are identified before entering Year 9.
“We have three groups of five boys who, for some reason or another, need a boost to their knowledge and skills. The main areas of focus are reading fluency and comprehension, punctuation, spelling and grammar, all the skills they need to be independent within their wider school classes,” says Kate. “Most literacy programmes remove students from their mainstream
Participants continue with their normal English classes and come to the programme for three periods a week, instead of attending a second modern languages class. Kate Morris is enthusiastic about the work the boys are doing and believes that, even though the programme has only been running for a term, it has already made a big difference for the boys taking part.
Head of Department for Learning Centre & ESOL, Lesley Anderson-McKenna
Christ’s College Canterbury
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