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Refresher & New To Ready Steady Write - Year 2 - 6
Audience: Year 2 - 6 Teachers and TAs new to Ready Steady Write
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp
Are you in Years 2 - 6, new to your school and new to Ready Steady Write?
Would you like further support around effective implementation?
FREE WEBINAR: Find out more about Ready Steady Comprehension
Audience: English Subject Leaders and SLT
Venue: Zoom
Price: FREE
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
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.
Refresher & New To Ready Steady Write - EYFS
Audience: EYFS Teachers and TAs new to Ready Steady Write
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp
Are you in EYFS, new to your school and new to Ready Steady Write?
Would you like further support around effective implementation?
Refresher & New To Ready Steady Write - Year 1
Audience: Year 1 Teachers and TAs new to Ready Steady Write
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp
Are you in Year 1, new to your school and new to Ready Steady Write?
Would you like further support around effective implementation?
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.
FREE WEBINAR: Find out more about Ready Steady Spell
Audience: English Subject Leaders and SLT
Venue: Zoom
Price: FREE
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
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.
New to Ready Steady Comprehension - EYFS & Year 1
Audience: EYFS & Year 1 Teachers and TAs new to Ready Steady Comprehension
Venue: Zoom
Price: £75pp
Are you new to your school and new to Ready Steady Comprehension? This professional development will explain all elements of this fantastic whole class shared reading resource.
New to Ready Steady Comprehension - Year 2 - 6
Audience: Year 2 - 6 Teachers and TAs new to Ready Steady Comprehension
Venue: Zoom
Price: £75pp
Are you new to your school and new to Ready Steady Comprehension? This professional development will explain all elements of this fantastic whole class shared reading resource.
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.
FREE WEBINAR: Find out more about Ready Steady Phonics
Audience: Phonics Leads, SLT, English Leads
Venue: Zoom
Price: FREE
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
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
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?
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.
FREE WEBINAR: Find out more about Ready Steady Write
Audience: English Subject Leaders and SLT
Venue: Zoom
Price: FREE
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
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?
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?
FREE: Mixed-age Planning Solutions Webinar
Audience: Class teachers, ECTs, TAs, ESLs, SLT and Headteachers.
Venue: Zoom
Price: FREE
This FREE webinar is open to all schools who wish to have a deeper understanding of how Ready Steady Write is a solution for mixed-age classes.
Supporting Struggling Readers - KS2 & KS3
Audience: Teachers, TAs, English Subject Leaders, SLT, Heads of department & English Teachers
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp
Do you have children who are struggling with word reading?
Is progression and pace difficult to secure for some of your children?
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?
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.
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.
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?
Getting Writing Right in Your School
Audience: English Subject Leads, SLT
Venue: Zoom
Price: £120pp
Is the development of writing a focus in your school?
Do you want to raise standards in writing across the entire primary phase?
Explicit Spelling Instruction: A Balanced Approach
Audience: English Subject Leaders, SLT & Teachers
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp
Are you looking to ensure your children gain higher degrees of fluency in spelling?
Do you want to develop a consistent and balanced approach to the teaching of spelling?
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.
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.
Developing a Spoken Language Curriculum - KS1 & KS2
Audience: SLT & English Subject Leads
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp
Are you a Primary school looking to further consider spoken language in your English curriculum?
Do you want to develop the teaching of conventions of spoken language to enable your pupils to speak well in a range of contexts?
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.
Impact Showcase - Ready Steady Write & Comprehension
Audience: Headteachers, SLT & English Subject Leads
Venue: Mill View Primary School, Chester, CH2 1HB
Price: FREE
Would you like to see how Literacy Counts’ award-winning resources have impacted on standards in spoken language, reading and writing? Come along to our showcase to find out more.
Olympics: Talk About It Write About It FREE Webinar with 'Picture News'
With the Award Winning Picture News & Literacy Counts
FREE: Ready Steady Write OLYMPIC Units of Work
FREE: Picture News OLYMPIC ASSEMBLY PACKS
Find your Oracy Solution
Audience: Headteachers, SLT, English Subject Leads, Curriculum Leads & Teachers who deliver assemblies.
Liverpool - Everybody Write: 2 Year Writing Impact Project
Everybody Write: 2 Year Writing Impact Project
We are inviting Headteachers, SLT & English Subject Leads (3 delegates welcome per school) from the surrounding area to meet at Banks Road Primary School to find out more about this project.
Olympics: Talk About It Write About It FREE Webinar with 'Picture News'
With the Award Winning Picture News & Literacy Counts
FREE: Ready Steady Write OLYMPIC Units
FREE: Picture News OLYMPIC ASSEMBLY PACKS
Find your Oracy Solution
Audience: Headteachers, SLT, English Subject Leads, Curriculum Leads & Teachers who deliver assemblies.
Cheshire - Everybody Write: 2 Year Writing Impact Project
Everybody Write: 2 Year Writing Impact Project
We are inviting Headteachers, SLT & English Subject Leads (3 delegates welcome per school) from the surrounding area to meet at Barnton Primary School to find out more about this project.
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.
Find Out More: Ready Steady Write PLUS+
Audience: English Subject Leaders and SLT
Venue: Zoom
Price: FREE
Find out more about Ready Steady Write PLUS+, with even more exciting units including: Olympics (EYFS-Yr6), Shakespeare (Yr3-Yr6) and Science (EYFS-Yr6).
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.