Enhance Literacy Outcomes with Expert-Led CPD for Primary Schools
Explore expert-led literacy CPD for UK primary schools and MATs. Our training supports the effective teaching of reading, writing, spelling, phonics and oracy from EYFS to Year 6. These high-impact courses are also ideal for international schools and KS3 settings seeking to embed strong foundational literacy practices. Whether you're a classroom teacher, English Subject Lead or senior leader, our CPD is designed to raise outcomes and embed consistent, whole-school literacy practice.
Explore below to view our full offer and find the solution that is right for your school.
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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.
FREE WEBINAR: Find out more about Ready Steady Read Together
Audience: English Subject Leaders and SLT
Venue: Zoom
Price: FREE
Find your reading solution:
Introduction to Ready Steady Read Together
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 Write - EYFS
Audience: EYFS Teachers and TAs new to Ready Steady Write
Venue: Zoom
Price: £75pp
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: £75pp
Are you in Year 1, 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 2 - 6
Audience: Year 2 - 6 Teachers and TAs new to Ready Steady Write
Venue: Zoom
Price: £75pp
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: Introducing our FREE Wellbeing Units!
Join us for a free 30-minute webinar where Gareth will introduce our new Wellbeing Units—a valuable addition to Ready Steady Write PLUS+. Designed to support Mental Health Month in May, these units provide engaging, high-quality teaching sequences that help children explore emotional literacy, resilience, and self-regulation through rich literature.
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
Year 6 - Meeting the Writing Standard
Are you confident in assessing writing at the expected standard in Year 6? This course unpicks Y6 expectations, explores STA guidance and exemplification materials, and provides practical strategies to support accurate assessment and effective teaching.
EYFS and the Writing ELG: Supporting Schools
Are you confident in assessing writing against the EYFS Early Learning Goals? This course explores the EYFS Profile, identifies barriers to progress, and provides practical strategies for developing oracy, reading, and writing, ensuring a smooth transition into Year 1.
FREE Webinar: Driving Whole-School Impact with Literacy Counts
🎯 Audience: SLT, MAT Leads, Cluster Leads
Looking for whole-school consistency, improved outcomes, support for vulnerable learners, and trust-wide impact?
Join our free 30-minute webinar, led by CEO Gareth Davies, to explore how Literacy Counts supports schools and trusts in transforming literacy outcomes. This session will showcase insights from our Impact Counts 2024 Report, packed with real-world data, testimonials, and success stories from schools that have embedded our award-winning resources and consultancy support.
FREE Shakespeare Units Unlocked: Free Webinar Overview
Join us for a 30-minute free webinar on Tuesday 20th May at 3:45pm!
Jo, one of our expert consultants, will guide you through our Ready Steady Write PLUS+ Shakespeare Units and how to maximise their impact in your classroom.
Using Ready Steady Write in Nursery, Pre-School & F1
Would you like to use our award-winning resource, Ready Steady Write, with your youngest learners? This course will support EYFS practitioners to adapt and use Ready Steady Write in your Nursery / Pre-School class, enhancing communication and language while laying the foundation for confident, enthusiastic writers.
Impact Showcase - Mill View Primary School
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.
World Environment Day - FREE Live Event with Literacy Counts & Let's Grow!
Join Us for a Special World Environment Day Event! 🌍🌱
We’re excited to announce a brand-new collaboration between Literacy Counts and Let's Grow, bringing an engaging and FREE online event to schools on 5th June 2025. Expect a fun, interactive session that celebrates the environment, sustainability, and a love of learning—perfect for inspiring young minds!
Developing Reading Fluency and Comprehension
Audience: Teachers, TAs, English Subject Leaders & SLT
Venue: Zoom
Price: £75pp
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?
Adaptive Teaching
Audience: Teachers, English Subject Leaders and SLTs
Venue: Zoom
Price: £75pp
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.
Supporting Children with SEND
Audience: Teachers, English Subject Leaders and SLT
Venue: Zoom
Price: £75pp
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?
New to Teaching Year 6
Are you new to teaching Year 6 and unsure about the expectations for assessment and writing standards?
This professional development session will give you clarity on the key requirements and practical strategies to support your teaching.
AI & Writing: Enhancing Learning, Reducing Workload
Are you keen to understand more about how AI and technology can support children with their writing?
Would you like to develop your knowledge and use such tools to improve outcomes for all learners?
Are you looking to reduce workload and increase engagement?
This professional development session will provide clear guidance and practical examples of how AI and technology can be used effectively in the classroom.
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: 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
Warrington Everybody Write: Info Event
Join us for an engaging and informative event to learn about the Everybody Write: 2-Year Writing Impact Project for WPAT, Warrington and surrounding schools.
This session will delve into the project’s sustainable approach to raising writing standards across schools. Gain insights into the comprehensive professional development, award-winning resources, and tailored support that make this project a success.
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.
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?
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
Literacy Professional Development for School Improvement
Professional Development for Primary Literacy Leads
Our comprehensive programme of literacy CPD courses is designed to support English Subject Leads, MAT leaders, SLT, teachers, and TAs in delivering high-quality literacy provision across the primary curriculum. Covering writing, reading, phonics, spelling and oracy, each course is aligned with National Curriculum expectations and informed by current Ofsted guidance. Whether you're leading literacy across a school or trust, or supporting the lowest 20%, our CPD equips you with the strategies and subject knowledge needed to raise attainment.
Free Literacy CPD Webinars
We also offer free online literacy CPD webinars for UK primary teachers, English Subject Leads and MAT leaders. These sessions provide valuable opportunities to reflect on how reading and writing are taught in your setting and explore best practice in curriculum planning, progression and pedagogy. Perfect for those seeking English CPD for KS1 and KS2 or professional development for new literacy leaders, these webinars are accessible, flexible and grounded in real classroom expertise.
CPD Courses for Teachers and ECTs
Our live, online courses are ideal for teachers at all career stages — from ECTs building confidence with phonics or writing schemes to experienced staff looking to deepen their understanding of curriculum intent and adaptive teaching. Delivered by expert consultants, each session is practical, interactive and built to support the realities of classroom teaching.
