Project resources
These resources have been produced by the National Support Team to support the Building Bridges project. They could provide valuable support for any planning of change across the curriculum.
Building Bridges Newsletters
PDF file: Building Bridges Newsletter Aug 04 In this newsletter you can read:
- about changes to the project support team and links with Assessment is for Learning
- a report on the third round of area seminars
- personal accounts of the project from practitioners
- a report on the conference Travel and Make the Road: Moving Forward Together
- about developments on the Building Bridges in Literacy website.
PDF file: Building Bridges Newsletter Feb 04 By reading this newsletter you can find out:
- what the project is about
- who is involved
- what key issues for local literacy project teams have been identified across the country
- the support that has been available to project teams
- how to access and use the Building Bridges website.
Literacy audit support materials
These materials support the vital processes of information gathering and giving pupils a sense of ownership at the outset, and to help with monitoring.
Audit guidance
Word file: Audit guidance (28 KB) How to use audit support materials.
Literacy audit resources
Word file: Attainment in language (59 KB) Questions and activities focusing on attainment, to help with monitoring and data analysis.
Word file: Auditing language teaching and learning (95 KB) Audit tool in tabular form providing quality indicators and areas for comment to monitor the processes of teaching and learning in literacy.
Word file: The language curriculum (66 KB) Audit tool in tabular form providing quality indicators and areas for comment to monitor effective courses and programmes of study.
Word file: Resources for literacy (75 KB) Audit tool in tabular form providing quality indicators and areas for comment to monitor resources for literacy, including staffing, staff review and development, texts and IT.
Word file: Ethos in literacy and Quality assurance (66 KB) Audit tool in tabular form providing quality indicators and areas for comment to monitor departmental ethos and strategies for quality assurance.
Word file: Pupil questionnaire guidance (26 KB)How to use pupil questionnaire support materials.
Word file: Pupil questionnaire (110 KB) Statements to support the creation of a questionnaire to explore the pupils' view of literacy, and literacy teaching.
Auditing literacy across the curriculum
Word file: Auditing Literacy across the Secondary Curriculum (192 KB) Statements re: listening, talking, reading and writing activities and skills to identify literacy skills across the curriculum, with comments section and summaries to aid identification of common development needs.
Outcomes of literacy audit
Word file: Outcomes of Literacy Audit: Development Priorities (57 KB) Template to create a summary of development priorities for individual local authority teams, for the Building Bridges project.
Action planning support materials
Documents providing an action plan template and support notes to aid its completion.
Word file: Action plan guidance (80 KB) How to use the action plan resources.
Word file: Action plan sections 1-5 (81 KB) Template to frame action plan for Building Bridges project. Sections on project overview, key focus, likely strategies and possible implications, mechanisms for monitoring progress of project, timescales.
Word file: Action plan section 6 (79 KB) Detailed planning template for Building Bridges project, for LA officer to identify tasks, personnel, monitoring, etc.
Word file: Action plan virtual project exemplar (215 KB)
To be read in conjunction with the area seminar notes on action planning. One project team's attempt to complete the action plan, which may be of use as a model.
Miscellaneous
Word file: Time log (61 KB) In order to keep track of the allocation of release days, you may wish to keep a log of the hours spent on project activities that require cover, particularly where these activities do not last for a full day. This document provides a template.
Word file: East Dunbartonshire information to parents (23 KB)East Dunbartonshire's initial response to the issue of informing parents about their project.