ENGLISH ACTION PLAN 2021-2022 by MUSIIMENTA Beatrice

To improve attainment and achievement in phonics, reading and writing throughout the curriculum so
that all learners make at least good progress.

Success criteria: -
-Staff are skilled at assessing pupils’ writing
- Staff are skilled at giving pupils appropriate writing targets.
- Progress for reading and writing visible in books, on reading progress sheets .
- Writing in other areas of the curriculum regularly used to inform writing assessments
- Consistency visible across school and key stages in use of working walls, assessment, planning and
moderation
- Time given for teachers to implement and organize activities
- Time for subject teachers to attend CPD meetings and conferences, staff training as appropriate

Monitoring
Lead outcomes/progress
Action Point Activities personnel Timescale Resources and Success criteria
1. Familiarize  Ensure new Teachers/ Nov 13th Internet  New teachers will be
members of teachers have HOD Department able to access the
department with copies of the Meetings Cambridge Curriculum
Cambridge curriculum and on teacher’s website.
Curriculum schemes of  Teachers will be
standards and work. familiar with the style,
programme of  Individual aims and objectives of
study through meeting to the Curriculum
CPDs discuss and  Teachers will be
highlight key aware of the
points. integration of ESL and
 Continue EFL.
offering  All teachers will be
training clear about their
sessions on the strengths and
use of weaknesses
Cambridge
curriculum
levels
2. Continuous  Identify External Nov 29th Appropriate internal A high standard of
Professional training needs Trainers, and teaching and learning
Development of of staff interested External trainers. will be in evidence
dept. Staff  CPDs staff/HOD during lesson
 Continue to Literacy consultant. observations.
conduct dept.  Regular use of
workshops on: Appropriate venues. interactive whiteboards
-Differentiation during lessons will be
- Interactive Release time for observed.
Whiteboard staff as appropriate.  Teachers will be
- Writing more confident about
Lesson Plans taking risks and making
- Diagnostic changes in their
 ENGLISH ACTION PLAN 2021-2022 by MUSIIMENTA Beatrice
To improve attainment and achievement in phonics, reading and writing throughout the curriculum so
that all learners make at least good progress.

Success criteria: -
-Staff are skilled at assessing pupils’ writing
- Staff are skilled at giving pupils appropriate writing targets.
- Progress for reading and writing visible in books, on reading progress sheets .
- Writing in other areas of the curriculum regularly used to inform writing assessments
- Consistency visible across school and key stages in use of working walls, assessment, planning and
moderation
- Time given for teachers to implement and organize activities
- Time for subject teachers to attend CPD meetings and conferences, staff training as appropriate
Marking teaching style and
Standardization methodology.
in marking  Ideas from training
- Starters and will be incorporated
Plenaries into classroom practice.
- Assessment
for learning
3. Promote  Create dept. All staff Access to useful Selected schemes of
catering to MAGT policy material on work will be modified.
Multiple  CPD for dept. differentiation and  Teachers will be well-
Intelligence, members on MAGT. planned for their
Differentiation, differentiation lessons and show a
and MAGT (More and MAGT. clear understanding of
Able, Gifted and  Create the curriculum to be
Talented) department covered for each year
students booklet on group.
differentiation  Use of interactive
with whiteboard lessons will
suggestions be more widespread.
and strategies
on how to
differentiate.
 Include
differentiation
strategies in
schemes of
work
4. Update and Upload All Staff Internet, Students will access the
maintain Google resources on appropriate website regularly and
class Google class: resources online discussion will
including be evident
revision tips,
interesting
articles, short
stories, and
book reviews in
order to
 ENGLISH ACTION PLAN 2021-2022 by MUSIIMENTA Beatrice
To improve attainment and achievement in phonics, reading and writing throughout the curriculum so
that all learners make at least good progress.

Success criteria: -
-Staff are skilled at assessing pupils’ writing
- Staff are skilled at giving pupils appropriate writing targets.
- Progress for reading and writing visible in books, on reading progress sheets .
- Writing in other areas of the curriculum regularly used to inform writing assessments
- Consistency visible across school and key stages in use of working walls, assessment, planning and
moderation
- Time given for teachers to implement and organize activities
- Time for subject teachers to attend CPD meetings and conferences, staff training as appropriate
encourage
independent
learning and
home study.
5. Encourage  Greater Subject Copies of  Most pupils will be
Reading cooperation Teachers, Supporting Reading familiar with a range of
from parents in books/novels
encouraging Literacy Novels,newspapers, appropriate to their
reading. leader . magazines, Internet year group.
 Book Club Posters,  There will be active
and Book Student participation in Book
review captain. club meetings and Book
competition. review competitions.
 Introduce  All students will have
reading activity a recommended book
once a week list.
(Newspaper  Students will
clippings, maintain a list of books
interesting they have read each
articles, term
famous
speeches etc)
 Distribute
recommended
reading lists for
each year
group and for
first and
second
language
students.
-Reading
Kinyarwanda
and French
articles and
newsreport.
6. Continue to Continue to HOD, Internet, laptops /  Teachers will regularly
 ENGLISH ACTION PLAN 2021-2022 by MUSIIMENTA Beatrice
To improve attainment and achievement in phonics, reading and writing throughout the curriculum so
that all learners make at least good progress.

Success criteria: -
-Staff are skilled at assessing pupils’ writing
- Staff are skilled at giving pupils appropriate writing targets.
- Progress for reading and writing visible in books, on reading progress sheets .
- Writing in other areas of the curriculum regularly used to inform writing assessments
- Consistency visible across school and key stages in use of working walls, assessment, planning and
moderation
- Time given for teachers to implement and organize activities
- Time for subject teachers to attend CPD meetings and conferences, staff training as appropriate
build online save copies of lSubject access to upload lesson plans,
resource base assignments teachers computers, copies worksheets and
and lesson of past exam resources.  Teachers
plans online. papers, lesson will be able to access all
 Update and plans. past exam papers.
maintain  Teachers will regularly
database of print off and make
exam papers. class-set copies of
 Download online resources.
worksheets  Students will have
and save as access to list of useful
soft copies. websites
 Add to
collection of
scanned text
book resources
and save as
soft copy.
 Distribute list
of Internet
resources and
English lang.
websites.
7. Continue to  Initial Subject Copies of All teachers will be
standardize meeting to teachers department grade marking using the
marking within discuss ie checkpoint, appropriate bands and
each year group department IGCSE,AS/A level grade descriptors.
grade ie Check bands.  There will be very
point bands, Department little variation in
IGCSE bands, meeting awarding marks.
and As/A
Levels.
 Cross-
marking
sessions after
term exams.
8 Use marking  Use marking Subject -Students will be aware
 ENGLISH ACTION PLAN 2021-2022 by MUSIIMENTA Beatrice
To improve attainment and achievement in phonics, reading and writing throughout the curriculum so
that all learners make at least good progress.

Success criteria: -
-Staff are skilled at assessing pupils’ writing
- Staff are skilled at giving pupils appropriate writing targets.
- Progress for reading and writing visible in books, on reading progress sheets .
- Writing in other areas of the curriculum regularly used to inform writing assessments
- Consistency visible across school and key stages in use of working walls, assessment, planning and
moderation
- Time given for teachers to implement and organize activities
- Time for subject teachers to attend CPD meetings and conferences, staff training as appropriate
frames for frames teachers of where they were
writing tasks prepared last awarded marks for a
year for writing particular assignment
to Persuade, and what areas they
Argue, Review, need to focus on to
and Analyse; improve.
and for
Summary-,
Diary- and
Letter Writing
11 Emphasis on Training with All Easy access to Regular use of
Interactive Learning language docking stations and interactive whiteboard
Whiteboard and Coaches for teachers. interactive lessons will be evident.
ICT help with ICT whiteboards.  Interactive
 Encourage whiteboard lesson
teachers who plans will be
are not incorporated into
experienced Schemes of work by
with ICT. year-end

14. Develop AS/A Allocate areas -Subject Access to CIE AS/A Level teacher will
Level English of teacher teachers’ resources be clear about syllabus
learning activities responsibility -HOD website. and marking criteria.
 Compile AS Subscription to  A good percent of
Level English appropriate AS /A student grades will be
Literature Level resource sites. in the A – C band.
Handbook. Adequate funding  Adequate resources
 Include for resources will be available.
course
summaries,
exam papers,
exam weight,
yearly
overview and
grade
descriptors.
 Write
 ENGLISH ACTION PLAN 2021-2022 by MUSIIMENTA Beatrice
To improve attainment and achievement in phonics, reading and writing throughout the curriculum so
that all learners make at least good progress.

Success criteria: -
-Staff are skilled at assessing pupils’ writing
- Staff are skilled at giving pupils appropriate writing targets.
- Progress for reading and writing visible in books, on reading progress sheets .
- Writing in other areas of the curriculum regularly used to inform writing assessments
- Consistency visible across school and key stages in use of working walls, assessment, planning and
moderation
- Time given for teachers to implement and organize activities
- Time for subject teachers to attend CPD meetings and conferences, staff training as appropriate
schemes of
work
 Prepare
resource list
with titles of
recommended
texts, general-,
subscription-,
and author-
specific
websites
15. Encourage -Ensure All Staff SAT books, Students will be
library activities students are vocabulary games productively occupied
occupied and worksheets. during library lessons.
during library
lessons.
-Organise
scavenger
hunt, SAT prep,
vocabulary
games.
16. English-based One event per All staff. Venue ,Projector, Posters and
extra-curricular term: laptop, advertisements will be
activities.  Conduct microphones, on display.
Spelling Bee poster  Student participation
Competition, will be high.
Formal Debate,  Possible teams for
Elocution inter-school
contest, and competitions
extempore
speech
contests
17.English/Frenc Appoint one All staff Backing paper, Classrooms will have
h Displays and teacher English,French,Kinya neat displays that are
French/ responsible for language posters. regularly updated.
Kinyarwanda- displays in each
based assemblies English
 ENGLISH ACTION PLAN 2021-2022 by MUSIIMENTA Beatrice
To improve attainment and achievement in phonics, reading and writing throughout the curriculum so
that all learners make at least good progress.

Success criteria: -
-Staff are skilled at assessing pupils’ writing
- Staff are skilled at giving pupils appropriate writing targets.
- Progress for reading and writing visible in books, on reading progress sheets .
- Writing in other areas of the curriculum regularly used to inform writing assessments
- Consistency visible across school and key stages in use of working walls, assessment, planning and
moderation
- Time given for teachers to implement and organize activities
- Time for subject teachers to attend CPD meetings and conferences, staff training as appropriate
classroom.
 Run one
French/
Kinyarwanda-
based
assembly a
month to
foster a love
for the
language and
promote a
broader
understanding
of the subject
among the
students.
(Details of each
assembly to be
discussed
during monthly
departmental
meeting.
18. Yearly -Create yearly HOD Schemes of work At any given time all
Overview of overview with teachers within a year
Syllabus set time span group will be teaching
for each unit or the same module of
module of study.
study.
19. Periodic Agree on All staff Meetings Teachers will be clear
Lesson observation Lesson Observation about their strengths
Observations criteria during Allocate time and areas for
appraisals. improvement
 Prompt
feedback
 Scrutinize
homework,
files, and
 ENGLISH ACTION PLAN 2021-2022 by MUSIIMENTA Beatrice
To improve attainment and achievement in phonics, reading and writing throughout the curriculum so
that all learners make at least good progress.

Success criteria: -
-Staff are skilled at assessing pupils’ writing
- Staff are skilled at giving pupils appropriate writing targets.
- Progress for reading and writing visible in books, on reading progress sheets .
- Writing in other areas of the curriculum regularly used to inform writing assessments
- Consistency visible across school and key stages in use of working walls, assessment, planning and
moderation
- Time given for teachers to implement and organize activities
- Time for subject teachers to attend CPD meetings and conferences, staff training as appropriate
notebooks.
 Set targets
and identify
action to follow
up on findings
of appraisals
20. Effective  Teachers will All staff Departmen Department Underachievers will be
teaching and be required to t Meetings Meetings identified and their
Learning select a small grades monitored.
number of  Teachers will be
underachieving aware of the different
students in methods of
their classroom differentiation (by task
who have low and outcome).
comprehension  Teachers will be
and writing aware of their
skills. Their individual targets.
progress will be  Support lessons for
carefully IGCSE and AS/A level
monitored over year groups will be in
time by place
teachers.
 Focus on
differentiation
in English
Lessons.
 Challenge
MAGT students
 Set targets
for each
teacher.
 Maintain a
record of all
English
assignments
and tests in
order to trace
 ENGLISH ACTION PLAN 2021-2022 by MUSIIMENTA Beatrice
To improve attainment and achievement in phonics, reading and writing throughout the curriculum so
that all learners make at least good progress.

Success criteria: -
-Staff are skilled at assessing pupils’ writing
- Staff are skilled at giving pupils appropriate writing targets.
- Progress for reading and writing visible in books, on reading progress sheets .
- Writing in other areas of the curriculum regularly used to inform writing assessments
- Consistency visible across school and key stages in use of working walls, assessment, planning and
moderation
- Time given for teachers to implement and organize activities
- Time for subject teachers to attend CPD meetings and conferences, staff training as appropriate
progression.
21. Target Setting -Create Target- -All Dept. -Target-setting pro -Students will be aware
setting pro Staff -forma of their targets and will
-forma have the target forms
 Feedback in their files.
after each
assessment
cycle
22. CPD in the Introduce All Exam papers, Students will be
IGCSE ESL and teachers to the dept.staff course content, encouranged to use the
AS/A level course texts books and sample essays student guide all the
discuss course regularly.
outline, exam  Teachers’ lesson
content, and plans reflect classroom
teaching activities.
strategies.  Scaffolding of writing
 Cross tasks will be evident.
marking of 2nd  Speaking and
Language listening practice will
assignments. be evident.
 Regular
lesson
observations
with
opportunities
for feedback.
 Encourage
self lesson
observations