Flagship Schools

Our Flagship Schools have been chosen for their innovative use of our book-based approach across the curriculum. They have adopted and adapted our planning sequences to complement their own topics or use our themes. Our flagship schools enjoy sharing how they have used the sequences to support engagement and raise attainment in English with new schools looking to change their pedagogy and curriculum.

Find out more about each Flagship School here.

Lead Teachers

Our Lead Teachers work in Literacy Tree schools and have a wide range of expertise in using and adapting a book-based curriculum. Many of them are subject leaders and are happy to share their stories of implementation and impact.

Literary Libraries

Literary Libraries are a free service to Literacy Tree schools where they can borrow sets of Literary Leaf books. For the next year we are focussed on building collections of the novels for the Literary Leaves and each school will have a set of 15 of each title. (Bilton Infants only stocl books listed within Y2). Please get in touch with us at libraries@literacytree.com if you have a request you would like to make. Schools will need to make their own arrangements to pick up books and return them on designated days at the end of a half-term. In the future we would love to have some more varied locations so please get in touch if you think you could host one in your school!

Advisory Panels

Our three panels are made up of teachers with the experience to guide and inform us to help us to ensure our chosen texts meet standards of inclusivity and authenticity in terms of representation of cultures and communities. Our advisory panels are used to provide advice and guidance in a non-executive function and are a non-decision making forum. The three panels are as follows:

• Race & Cultures Representation Panel

Donny Morrison, Senior Literacy Consultant, Literacy Tree (Chair)

Karla Edwards, Executive English Lead, Phoenix Federation, Lewisham

Abbey Kershaw, Y6 Teacher, Worsborough Common, Barnsley

Tania Findlay MBE, Deputy Head, Newquay Junior Academy. 

Joanna Leru, Reading Lead, Ditcheat Primary School, East Somerset

Lindsay King, English Lead, Dulwich Village Infants school, Southwark 

• LGBTQ+ Representation Panel

Anthony Legon, Co-CEO and Co-founder, Literacy Tree (Chair)

Michael Buck, Betty Layward Primary School, Stoke Newington

Jade Murray, Sheringham Community Primary School, Norfolk

Ed Lockwood-Wells, Albemarle Primary School, Wandsworth

Dan Taylor, Assistant Head, Yew Tree Academy, Knowsley

• Disabilities, SEND and Neuro-Diversity Representation Panel

Pippa McGeoch, Senior Consultant, Literacy Tree (Chair)

Emmalene Greene, Singleton School

Siobhan Casey, Coppettswood Primary, Barnet

Donna Williams, Tubbenden SOLA MAT, Orpington