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FREE WEBINAR: Find out more about Ready Steady Write
Ready Steady Write is comprehensive and evidence-based. It provides a sequenced, ambitious curriculum, that places quality literature at its core. Our units have been carefully mapped out to match the entire statutory curriculum for writing.
🏆 Award-winning: This resource has won the 2023 Teach Primary Award and was a finalist at the 2024 Bett Awards and 2024 ERA Awards.
Find your writing solution:
Introduction to Ready Steady Write
How it would look in your school
EYFS - Year 6 whole school consistency
FREE sample access to the resource
Q&A session with our expert consultant
Come along to find out more!
FREE WEBINAR: Find out more about Ready Steady Comprehension
Ready Steady Comprehension (formally known as Steps to Read) is planning support for whole class Shared Reading through carefully crafted units of work. They empower teachers to teach all aspects of word reading and comprehension through high-quality fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts.
Find your reading solution:
Introduction to Ready Steady Comprehension
How it would look in your school
EYFS - Year 6 whole school consistency
FREE sample units
Q&A session with our expert consultant
Come along to find out more!
FREE WEBINAR: Find out more about Ready Steady Phonics
Ready Steady Phonics is a DfE Validated progressive systematic synthetic programme which builds upon and expands the original Letters and Sounds. It contains detailed guidance for effective implementation, and carefully crafted fully decodable text that exactly match children’s growing phonic subject skills and knowledge.
Find your phonics solution:
Introduction to Ready Steady Phonics
How it would look in your school
FREE sample access to the resource
Q&A session with our expert consultant
Come along to find out more!
FREE WEBINAR: Find out more about Ready Steady Spell
Ready Steady Spell is a progressive systematic spelling programme from Year 2 up to Year 6. It covers all National Curriculum expectations progressively for all these year groups. It provides full coverage, in a cyclical way, by providing opportunities to reinforce and embed learning systematically and interactively!
Find your spelling solution:
Introduction to Ready Steady Spell
How it would look in your school
FREE sample access to the resource
Q&A session with our expert consultant
Come along to find out more!
Subject Leader Updates
Audience: English Subject Leaders, Reading Leads, Phonics leads, SLT
Venue: Zoom
Price: £50 for remaining Summer session
The three sessions are intended to strengthen subject leadership and delegates will have the opportunity to engage in professional dialogue with colleagues. Information about current literacy developments, approaches, guidance and thinking will be shared. Subject leaders will have an increased awareness of guidance and can use this to inform actions and priorities to improve standards in the subject across the school.
Autumn Session - Already Taken Place
Spring Session - Already Taken Place
Summer Session
Date: Thursday 23rd May 2024
Time: 09:15am - 12:00pm
Everybody Write - Birmingham 2 Year Project
Project Outcomes:
Whole school improvement of writing
A fully sequenced, ambitious curriculum implementation
Comprehensive professional development for leaders and practitioners
Access to a wealth of writing resources YR - Y6 (Ready Steady Write)
Lead and develop pedagogy & practice
Improving outcomes in writing for all children
Empower practitioners to provide high-quality teaching of writing through hi-quality literature
Support all learner’s fluency and
stamina for writing
Please express your interest before Thursday 28th March 2024.
Please note, your school will be able to split the payment for this opportunity over this academic year 2023-2024 and next academic year; 2024-2025.
If you would like further information, please contact us on 07522 514759 or email the consultant leading this project, hannah@literacycounts.co.uk.
We look forward to working with you!
New to Year 6
Audience: Year 6 Teachers and Teaching Assistants
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60
This professional development opportunity will provide details of the expectations for teachers that are new to Year 6. Delegates will explore the details of the STA summative assessments for reading; the exemplifications materials for writing and the National Curriculum expectations for grammar, punctuation and spelling.
No gaps in knowledge here! The sessions will be full of practical ideas to support teaching, accurate assessment and next steps.
New to Year 2
Audience: Year 2 Teachers and Teaching Assistants
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60
This professional development opportunity will:
provide details of the expectations for teachers in Year 2
transition information and preparing for your new class
explore STA summative assessments for reading and writing and the implications of the changes to these
examine National Curriculum expectations for grammar, punctuation and spelling
What's the Story of English at your School?
What's the story of English at your School?
Responding to the Ofsted English Subject Report
Audience: Headteachers, SLT, English Subject Leads
The aims of this CPD session are to:
Unpick the findings of the Ofsted report
Consider recommendations
Set priorities in light of current school position
Cover all elements of English education including speaking and listening
Cost: £60 per delegate
Using Ready Steady Write in EYFS
Audience: Practitioners new to EYFS, ECTs and English Subject Leads.
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60 per delegate
This course is for schools who already engage with our Ready Steady Write resource and are looking to make sure their team are confident in how to effectively deliver writing within EYFS.
The course will include:
How to deliver the Ready Steady Write units
Sentence Accuracy
Enhancing your continuous provision
Letter formation
Writing through Sentence Snake
Adaptive Teaching in KS1 & KS2
Audience: Teachers, English Subject Leaders and SLTs
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60
Adjust and Adapt – the Power of Adaptive Teaching for Reading and Writing in the Primary Classroom
This course will provide practical support to plan for and adapt your teaching in light of the reading and writing learning needs of all of your pupils.
The focus for this half day session will be:
What is adaptive teaching?
How can teachers focus on whole class teaching whilst responding to individual pupil needs?
How can planning be adapted for groups of pupils needing specific support?
How can writing activities be adapted to meet the needs of the class?
How can teachers ensure all pupils make progress and succeed in reading and writing?
NB: This is a repeat of the same course held in January 2024, thank you.
Ready Steady Write Using Shakespeare in KS2
Open up the world of Shakespeare to your school through quality literature!
This session covers how to ensure clear Intent, Implementation and Impact whilst also delivering creative literacy lessons for your Key Stage 2 students.
Audience: English subject leads & KS2 class teachers.
Year 3: A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream
Year 4: The Tempest
Year 5: Macbeth
Year 6: Romeo & Juliet
Click HERE to read more about this CPD on Shakespeare North’s booking page.
New to EYFS Sessions
Audience: EYFS Leads, EYFS Teachers, TAs and English Subject Leads, SLT
Venue: Zoom
Price: £100 for the remaining 2 sessions
These termly meetings will cover all aspects of Early Years Literacy. The practical and supportive sessions are for teachers who are new or returning to EYFS. The sessions will be held termly, focusing on the following:
Developing effective provision in EYFS, including enabling environments
Early Language and Extending Vocabulary
Reading and writing. There will be engaging units of work to take away.
Moderation
Autumn Session - Already taken place
Spring Session
Date: Thursday 15th February 2024
Time: 09:15am - 12:00pm
Summer Session
Date: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Time: 09:15am - 12:00pm
Assessing Book-based Writing in Year 6
Audience: Y6 teachers, English Subject Leads
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60
Are you looking for practical strategies for assessing writing and identifying next steps?
This half day course will:
Ensure teachers know the requirements of writing at the end of KS2 in the National Curriculum
Explore why audience and purpose are key to assessing children’s writing
Identify how to use and interpret the framework to make judgements
Provide guidance and practical examples for collecting assessment information
Provide exemplification materials
Model assessing writing
Assessing Book-based Writing in Year 2
Audience: Y2 teachers, English Subject Leads
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60
Are you looking for practical strategies for assessing writing and identifying next steps?
This half day course will:
Ensure teachers know the requirements of writing at the end of KS1 in the National Curriculum
Explore why audience and purpose are key to assessing children’s writing
Identify how to use and interpret the framework to make judgements
Provide guidance and practical examples for collecting assessment information
Provide exemplification materials
Model assessing writing
Ready Steady Write at Banks Road Primary School
FREE EVENT!
Banks Road Primary School and Literacy Counts would like to invite you to find out more about Ready Steady Write!
Why attend?
See how quality resources create meaningful and engaging writing lessons
See how quality environments can support and scaffold learning
Opportunities to speak to staff, look at books and explore the resource
Samples of our full suite of award-winning resources will be available to look at on the day!
Audience: English Subject Leads, Headteachers, Deputy Headteachers, SLT
Please note there is a limit of 3 SLT attendees per school.
Support for Grammar for ECTs
Delegates will be supported in developing their practice through three interactive and informative sessions. They will gain a deeper understanding of effective pedagogies and their application in the primary classroom. The sessions will cover:
Reading (Already taken place)
Writing (Already taken place)
Grammar: Thursday 25th January 2024 09:15am - 12:00pm
Developing understanding of grammar terminology
Contextualised grammar and how it is used for effect writing
Teaching approaches and strategies
Ready Steady Write at Brownmead Academy - Birmingham
Audience: Senior Leadership, English, Phonics and Curriculum Leads
Literacy Counts & Brownmead Academy would like to invite you to find out more about Ready Steady Write and the positive impact it can have across your school!
Why attend?
Opportunities to speak to staff, look at books and explore the websites.
See how quality resources create meaningful and engaging writing lessons.
See how quality environments can support and scaffold learning.
Samples of our full suite of our award-winning resources will be available to look through on the day.
This event begins at 2pm to talk to practitioners from Brownmead Academy, look at books, working walls, displays and explore the website.
At 3pm, a Literacy Counts Consultant will be presenting on Ready Steady Write. Following this, there will be a further opportunity to look at books, working walls, displays and explore the website.
Please note, you do not need to stay for the full 2 hours.
*Please note that this is an in-person event at Brownmead Academy in Birmingham.
Deep Dive Reading
Audience: English Subject Leaders, Reading Leads, Phonics leads, SLT
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60
In this professional development course delegates will have the opportunity to carefully consider the quality of the intent, implementation and impact of their schools’ reading curriculums.
The session will include:
Ways to prioritise reading across the school
A consideration of adequate pace and progression in the teaching of phonics
The application of skill and knowledge in reading
The use of environmental audits and how they can enhance provision
Ways to develop a love of reading across the school
Using audits to support planning for next steps and whole school improvement
Using tracking documentation to ensure early identification of pupils who will need additional support
Year 6 SATS: Strategies for Success
Audience: Y6 teachers and TAs, subject leaders and senior leaders
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60
Are you looking for guidance on ways to support your children as they approach their end of key stage assessments?
Would you value an in-depth focus on the standards and expectations, and how to help your children reach them?
If so, this is the course for you. This practical session will support all teachers by:
providing details of the expectations in Year 6
exploring the exemplifications materials for writing
examining National Curriculum expectations for grammar, punctuation and spelling
providing guidance on effective approaches and strategies for success
Cracking the Phonics Screening Check
Audience: Year 1 Teachers and TAs
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60
This professional development opportunity will arm delegates with essential skills and knowledge to help maximise the number of children to pass the phonics screening check. This interactive course unpicks the complex code and analyses the difficulties and barriers children have. It will also support practitioners on how best to address the needs of those children who do not meet the required standard. Cracking the Phonics Screening Check will provide delegates with the skills of diagnostic assessment and help them reflect on pedagogy and provision, improving outcomes for all children.
FREE WEBINAR: Find out more about Ready Steady Spell
Ready Steady Spell is a progressive systematic spelling programme from Year 2 up to Year 6. It covers all National Curriculum expectations progressively for all these year groups. It provides full coverage, in a cyclical way, by providing opportunities to reinforce and embed learning systematically and interactively!
