A successful bid proposal to the DfE has meant that from November 2023, Three Spires will be the lead and key Delivery Partner of the ‘Stoke-on-Trent Priority Area: raising attainment in English across KS3 and KS4’.

The project aims to support teachers to successfully embed ‘formative and summative assessment strategies’ into their teaching practice as a means to measure progress more accurately and effectively.

The programme will focus on a variety of elements that will be of interest to schools, including:

• using key skills and knowledge to underpin planning
• explicit teaching with a focus on pedagogical practice and instructional strategies
• interleaving
• oracy