West Derby School - We Deliver Success
364 West Derby Road, Liverpool, L13 7HQ
admin@westderbyschool.co.uk
0151 235 1300

West Derby School

We Deliver Success
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  • Key Information
    • Headteachers Welcome
    • Values & Ethos
    • School Contact Details
    • Covid-19 - Living With Covid
    • OFSTED Reports
    • Exams & Assessments
    • Performance Tables
    • Pupil Premium & Catch Up
    • SEND Report
    • Financial Information
    • Trust
    • Safeguarding Statement
    • Attendance
    • Key Staff
    • Remote Learning
    • Policies/Additional Information
    • Vacancies
  • Admissions
    • Admissions Consultation 2026-27
    • Year 7 Transition
    • Local Offer
    • Admissions Policy
    • Applying for a Year 7 Place
    • Open Evenings
    • Appeals
    • In Year Admissions/Appeals
  • Parents
    • Safeguarding for Parents
    • Letters Home
    • School Calendar
    • War in Ukraine
    • Brexit Guidance
    • Uniform
    • Road Safety - Secondary School
  • Curriculum
    • Curriculum Design
    • Subject Overviews
    • Careers & Higher Education
      • Careers info for Teachers
    • Key Stage 4 Options
    • PSHE & RSE
    • Knowledge Organisers
    • Literacy: The Big 4
    • Year 10 Work Experience
  • Daily Life
    • Sports
    • Meet Our Pastoral Staff
    • Achievement Hub
    • School Day
    • Assembly
    • Term Dates
    • Lunchtime Menu
    • School News
    • School Clubs
    • Staff Resources
  • Sixth Form
    • Welcome Message
    • Sixth Form Admissions
    • Learning at Sixth Form
    • Sixth Form Bursary
    • Sixth Form Daily Life
    • Higher Education
    • Sixth Form Curriculum
    • Enrichment
    • Sixth Form Staff
    • Year 11 Post 16 Options
    • Destinations
    • Work Experience
    • Unifrog
  • Pupils
    • Literacy
    • Assessments & Intervention
    • Reading Ready
    • Key Stage 3
    • Key Stage 4
    • Key Stage 5
    • Homework
    • Vocabulary
    • Literacy in English
    • Communication
    • Celebrations & Events
    • Peer Mentors
    • E-Safety
    • GCSE Support & Revision
    • Exam & Revision Timetables
    • Keeping Safe

Literacy Support for Parents and Pupils

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Useful links to support literacy

The links below will help parents and students alike with literacy outside of the classroom:

100 best books for young people

Booktrust ‘Bookfinder’

Liverpool Libraries

Read Liverpool

The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards

The Reader

Books for Keeps

Love Reading

https://stories.audible.com/ep/audible-stories-thank-you

Bookfinder: find children’s books for every age | BookTrust

The Creeping Hour (wgbh.org)

Videos – MouseCircus.com – The Official Neil Gaiman Website for Young Readers

Moment of Fame (pobble365.com)

Literature Map – The Tourist Map of Literature (literature-map.com)

BBC Sounds – Classic Stories

Book Sorter | Summer Reading Challenge

Roald Dahl HQ – YouTube

Recommended Reading Lists For Schools, Book Extracts and Book Reviews | LoveReading4Schools

Year 11 suggested reading list for pupils in KS4 age 15-16 (schoolreadinglist.co.uk)

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