Edssential article from @davidfawcett27 :
Last month I wrote a guest blog post for Subject Support (which can be found here). It looked at ways that as a PE teacher I can improve the quality of students written work in theory lessons. Since then I have had a number of very unrelated conversations about this topic and worked with a number of colleagues on this same problem. Although I am not a specialist in this field, I am still a huge advocate that I have as much of a duty to develop students reading, writing and general literacy skills as any other colleague. Simply because I am a PE teacher should not be an excuse or reason why I should see this as the work of other departments (more often than not the English Department). I feel it unfair that I should feel the benefit of their hard work and do nothing with my students to help support, reinforce or move students competence in this skill forward. At our school we have a number of whole school literacy strategies that, as individual teachers or departments, we should be following to help develop students literacy. This is a positive set of strategies and ones which are designed to