ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the importance of how other subjects across Key Stage 3 (KS3) need to become an active part of the planning cycle in the future if literacy skills such as SPAG are to be successfully transferred across the curriculum. The departmental review that took place during the first planning cycle between 2014 and 2015 focused on how successful schemes of work, different texts and assessments had been in this new KS3 English curriculum model. Two of the main features of the spelling programme included were the introduction of bronze, silver and gold spelling awards across KS3, which meant weekly spelling tests to be undertaken by all pupils like those they would have experienced in their primary schools. Even before SPAG was firmly placed at the epicentre of current KS3 English Programmes of Study, focus of this literacy across the curriculum (LAC) project was specifically on writing and raising standards in spelling, punctuation, vocabulary and grammar across the curriculum.
