The one day Teaching Reading in Early Years course equips teachers in guiding children through their first steps in reading.Due to heavy demand the November dates are sold out but places are now available for March

This highly successful 4 day whole school training engages teachers and children in the literacy curriculum through the use of high quality books and proven teaching approaches. Schools receive book packs with associated teaching sequences, access to a resource-packed website and literacy training grounded in research.

Enhance and develop your literacy teaching with CLPE’s flagship  Power of Reading  training, proven to raise children's literacy achievement.

This event, led by our expert teaching team, will offer insight and practical approaches to explore what constitutes a quality English curriculum and guide you through proven strategies for success in your school and setting.

The Power of Reading is a school development project which engages teachers and children in the literacy curriculum using high quality books and proven teaching approaches. This project is being commissioned by Harrow Gate Primary Academy. 

For booking and information please contact Shirley Paterson, tel: 01642 673984 

The one day Teaching Reading in Years 3 and 4 course equips teachers with proven and practical strategies to help identify and ensure reading progress at lower Key Stage 2. The course investigates ways to deepen and assess comprehension skills across Years 3 and 4 using a text-based approach to help plan and apply well-chosen activities around high-quality children’s literature.

Taught in collaboration with established children’s author, Tony Bradman, this half-day course explores how to use historical fiction to develop a cross-curricular unit of work. Inspired by Tony Bradman’s, Viking Boy and the associated historical era, this course will offer creative teaching approaches to support improved attainment in literacy and to teach history and other subject areas, effectively.

The Reading for Pleasure Teacher Book Group is a FREE series of sessions and participants will get some free books too. As well as this the group will be held in CLPE’s new inspiring Literacy Library in Central London, which is a breathtaking venue that you will want to spend hours in! Spaces are limited so please sign up soon.  The Book Group will take place on Mondays 4.30pm-6.00pm over 6 sessions. See dates above.

This training engages teachers and children in the Early Years language and literacy curriculum with high quality books and creative teaching approaches, set within the expectations of the EYFS 2014. In depth training includes talk and story, rhyme and song and outdoor texts. Schools also receive access to a website with over 200 teaching sequences and hundreds of examples of inspiring practice. Formerly Power of Reading Early Years.

This specialist one day course is the second session of our four day course Excellence in Literacy for NQTs, and has a focus on phonics and spelling. The course is highly practical and investigates ways to use a text-based approach to plan well-chosen activities that support children’s progress in these areas through the use of high-quality children’s literature.

What you will learn