What are English Hubs?
In 2018 the DfE launched 34 English Hubs across England to support schools to improve the teaching of phonics and early reading. Hubs are able to offer funding and free support to schools.
We support schools across Early Years, KS1, KS2 and now into KS3 too.
Support provided by the hubs focuses on the following three areas:
- Early language development and 'closing the word gap'.
- Age-appropriate phonics provision: encouraging best practice in systematic synthetic phonics teaching. This includes encouraging fidelity to a single systematic synthetic phonics programme and supporting the effective use of decodable books in the early stages of learning to read as a way of establishing phonic decoding.
- Promoting a love of reading through a focus on reading aloud, developing teachers' knowledge of children's literature, supporting whole school reading approaches and encouraging reading at home.
What we offer
- Sharing of best practice in action at our showcase events.
- School-based audits of early language and reading provision.
- Become a Partner School to benefit from in-school support run by our team of Literacy Specialists.
- Funding or match funding schools to buy resources including validated phonics packages and training.
- Training in developing reading for pleasure.
- A network of expertise to provide support and advice for leaders.
We are continually looking for ways to share the expertise and skills across our schools in the most effective ways. If you are looking for support, we would love to hear from you. Please do get in touch with us.