Lealands High School in Luton is a foundation-based secondary school for children in years 7 to year 11 (KS3 - KS4). Although it isn’t part of an academy, it’s the founding school in the Lumen Partnership comprising that includes Lealands and three feeder primary schools, supporting children of all ages across Luton and surrounding Bedfordshire villages and towns.
Lealands selected ReadingWise Decoding in July 2016. The intervention is still in place as of 2024, and the school expects to continue working with us to support learners into the future.
In May 2023, Lealands had its Ofsted inspection, achieving a Good grade (previous inspections were also good or satisfactory).
Ofsted Inspection of a good school: Lealands High School
At ReadingWise, we are proud to champion the schools we work with. Here are a few of the highlights from the report:
“At Lealands, pupils learn to understand and respect others. It is a diverse community. Pupils new to the school say, ‘It is like joining a family’. Pupils from many backgrounds mix successfully and happily. Pupils learn through the curriculum about different parts of society.”
“Pupils learn a well-considered curriculum. They benefit from leaders’ high expectations of their learning. This includes pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). These pupils receive strong support. When pupils need extra help, this is effective. As a result, they build up their knowledge well.”
What does the Ofsted report say about reading?
“Leaders prioritise reading and literacy.”
“They plan carefully how pupils build up important vocabulary over time. Pupils value reading. The weakest readers get effective support to read more confidently. This helps them to understand their learning.”
As this shows:
How ReadingWise supports reading and literacy at Lealands High School
ReadingWise is an online, evidence-backed, intervention programme designed for every aspect of reading – decoding, comprehension, and vocabulary. This provides leaders, teachers, TAs, and SENDcos with a coherent, unified approach to improving literacy.
To support literacy and reading across the school, Lealands benefits from access to the following module:
Decoding: So much more than just another phonics programme for Years 2-11. Our decoding module, for primaries and secondaries, develops deep independence in learners, empowers them, and consistently improves reading ages by over 9 months in just 20 hours.
Decoding is a powerful literacy intervention module.
Delivery: 20-25 minute sessions 3-5 times a week. Supervised by 1 trained TA working with 10 learners.
Training for schools and teachers
Staff at every level, including teachers, TAs, literacy leads, and SEND specialists, were trained in Zip, Vocab, Comprehension, and Decoding, the four modules deployed to raise reading levels across this outstanding secondary school.
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