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Adaptive Teaching
Jan
29

Adaptive Teaching

Audience: Teachers, English Subject Leaders and SLTs
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp

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.

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Assessing Book-based Writing EYFS - Year 6
Feb
4
to 7 Feb

Assessing Book-based Writing EYFS - Year 6

Audience: Individual year group teachers & TAs
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp

  • Are you looking for practical strategies for assessing writing and identifying next steps?

  • Course per year group (EYFS - Year 6) for specific and detailed training and support

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FREE Webinar: Spoken Language Guidance
Feb
5

FREE Webinar: Spoken Language Guidance

Audience: Class Teachers, English Subject Leads, SLT, Headteachers & governors.
Venue: Zoom
Price: FREE

  • Are you looking to develop staff subject knowledge around year group expectations, what speaking and listening teaching looks like in the classroom and the scaffolds to support

  • Do you want to develop a clear progression for spoken language from EYFS to Y6?

  • Are you looking to develop planned opportunities for oracy to support reading and writing across your school?

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Strategies for Success in SATs
Feb
7

Strategies for Success in SATs

Audience: Y6 teachers and TAs, English Subject Leaders & SLT
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp

  • 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?

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Subject Leader Updates - Termly Network Sessions
Feb
13

Subject Leader Updates - Termly Network Sessions

Audience: English Subject Leaders and SLT
Venue: Zoom
Spring: 13/02/25 09:15am - 12:00pm Price: £60pp
Summer: 22/05/25 09:15am - 12:00pm Price: £60pp

  • These online 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.

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Refresher & New To Ready Steady Spell
Jan
17

Refresher & New To Ready Steady Spell

Audience: English/Curriculum lead, class teachers and TAs
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp
This course is for schools who already engage with our Ready Steady Spell resource and are looking to make sure their team are confident in how to effectively deliver spelling within each year group.

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Deep Dive Reading
Jan
16

Deep Dive Reading

Audience: English Subject Leaders, Reading Leads, Phonics leads and SLT
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp

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.

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Refresher & New To Ready Steady Phonics
Jan
14

Refresher & New To Ready Steady Phonics

Audience: Phonics lead, individual year group teachers & TAs
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp
This course is for schools who already engage with our Ready Steady Phonics resource and are looking to make sure their team are confident in how to effectively deliver writing within EYFS or Year 1.

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Supporting Children with SEND
Nov
14

Supporting Children with SEND

Audience: Teachers, English Subject Leaders and SLT
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp

  • Would you like to further support children with SEND in reading and writing sessions?

  • Are you looking for guidance on making reasonable adjustments to meet needs and ensure all children progress in literacy?

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Developing Reading Fluency and Comprehension
Oct
24

Developing Reading Fluency and Comprehension

Audience: Teachers, TAs, English Subject Leaders & SLT
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp

  • Are you looking for clarity on how to build fluency and comprehension across the primary phase?

  • Are you looking to support children to control the pace and intonation of their reading?

  • Do you need guidance on supporting the development of comprehension skills?

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Meeting the Needs of Children with EAL
Oct
15

Meeting the Needs of Children with EAL

Audience: Teachers, English Subject Leaders, TAs and SLT within schools who have EAL learners
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp

  • Do you have children who have English as an Additional Language in your school?

  • This professional development will provide ideas, strategies and approaches for supporting with English as an Additional Language within a rich literacy curriculum.

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Support for Reading, Writing & Grammar for ECTs
Oct
10

Support for Reading, Writing & Grammar for ECTs

Audience: Early Career Teachers
Venue: Zoom
Price: £150pp (if all sessions are booked)


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.

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Building Reading Habits at KS2 & KS3
Oct
8

Building Reading Habits at KS2 & KS3

Audience: English Subject Leaders, reading leads, SLT, Heads of Department, English Teachers, Librarians
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp

  • Do your pupils have mixed attitudes towards reading?

  • Are you keen to develop long lasting reading habits for your learners in KS2 and beyond?

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Refresher & New To Ready Steady Spell
Sept
26

Refresher & New To Ready Steady Spell

Audience: English/Curriculum lead, class teachers and TAs
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp
This course is for schools who already engage with our Ready Steady Spell resource and are looking to make sure their team are confident in how to effectively deliver spelling within each year group.

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New to Year 6
Sept
20

New to Year 6

Audience: Year 6 Teachers and Teaching Assistants
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60 pp

  • This professional development opportunity will provide details of the expectations for teachers that are new to Year 6.

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New to Year 2
Jul
11

New to Year 2

Audience: Year 2 Teachers and Teaching Assistants
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60 pp

This professional development opportunity will provide details of the expectations for teachers that are new to Year 2.

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Subject Leader Updates
May
23

Subject Leader Updates

Audience: English Subject Leaders, Reading Leads, Phonics leads, SLT
Venue: Zoom
Price: £50 for remaining Summer session
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.

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Apr
24

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

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Apr
19

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

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Apr
17

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.

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