This one day Inspiring Writing course focuses on Years 3 and 4 and the crucial knowledge and skills children need to develop for writing at this point in their learning. In line with the National Curriculum 2014, this course will support teachers to inspire a wide range of writing opportunities while also developing children’s writing skills, spelling and grammar in context.

This project has been commissioned by the Viscount Nelson Education Network CIC. Cost is £1450 ( £950 for additional attendees). 

To book: please email Nania Poulson Project Manager, Viscount Nelson Education Network.

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

This four day course provides Newly Qualified Teachers with essential subject knowledge and understanding of children’s progress and development in talk, reading and writing in order to teach and assess English in line with the current National Curriculum expectations. The course is highly practical and investigates ways to use a text-based approach to plan well-chosen activities to support children’s progress in all aspects of reading and writing, using high-quality children’s literature.
 

What you will learn:

The one day Teaching Reading in Years 5 and 6 course investigates a range of reading strategies to ensure children’s confidence as readers in Key Stage 2.

This course will explore a range of strategies and resources to enhance literacy attainment based around a quality children’s text. It will strengthen participant’s phonics subject knowledge and understanding of related terminology in line with EYFS 2017 and National Curriculum 2014 and give teaching assistants a wide range of strategies to support all children effectively.

Who should attend?

Teaching Assistants for any year group in the primary years

What you will learn:

This course focuses on the Early Years and the crucial knowledge and skills children need to develop for writing at this point in their learning. In line with the EYFS Framework 2017, this course will help teachers to encourage children to write using their phonic knowledge and build their imaginative and motor skills to support them to become confident, competent writers.

The one day Teaching Reading in Years 1 and 2 course will provide teachers with a grounding in how to support children’s growing comprehension skills, and in developing reading fluency and stamina.

Run in partnership with the English and Media Centre, this course looks at how knowledge and skills can be developed in KS2 to stretch and challenge students, and equips teachers on how best to prepare and guide pupils as they transition into KS3.

Who should attend?

Year 5 and 6 Teachers, KS2 Phase Leaders/Coordinators.

What you will learn:

Led by experts across primary and secondary teaching, the day’s highly practical and text-rich session will cover:

This course will explore a range of strategies and resources to enhance spelling attainment of all children based on the research from the CLPE publication Understanding Spelling. It will make teachers think about their current spelling practise looking at strategies and approaches to improve and enhance this teaching to ensure children become confident, effective spellers.

Who should attend?

Primary Teachers in any year group and English subject leads

What you will learn:

This one-day course will develop practitioner’s subject knowledge of how to build the Upper KS2 curriculum around quality texts, carefully chosen to link with other curriculum areas. Particular attention will be given to supporting the development of children’s language and critical thinking across the curriculum, sharing how knowledge gained from core texts in literacy sessions can support cross-curricular learning and how to enrich knowledge in other subject areas to develop a greater depth of understanding and response in reading and writing.

Who should attend?