At Callington Community College we know that literacy underpins all subjects: without a good grasp of reading and writing skills, students will struggle to access the content of a lesson or express themselves in a coherent way.  In order to give our learners the best access to education, all teachers in all subjects promote a high level of literacy in their lessons. This will be through the explicit teaching of skills, feedback on work or facilitating the literacy focus of the half term. Our website contains a range of resources that you can use to help support your child at home with specific literacy skills; these range from five minute tasks to longer activities and are suitable for all ability ranges.

One important way is with the one-to-one support that we offer some students using the Catch Up® Literacy intervention. This intervention enables students to develop a greater level of confidence and ability in their reading and literacy skills. Students have made outstanding progress with this support. Catch Up® has produced some useful guides for parents and carers who want more information about how to support their child with literacy and we have included them here for your use. In September this year we introduced Catch Up ® Numeracy here at the College and through this we provide additional support with numeracy for some students who may benefit from it.