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This half day course will focus on how a phonics first approach can support children to become confident and independent spellers. We will discuss the development of a range of strategies that children can use to enable them to make effective choices when spelling phonically encodable words. We will also explore some strategies to support the spelling of sight words.

This half day course is suitable for all teachers in KS1. Colleagues will explore a ‘talk for writing’ teaching sequence that ensures a balance of oral retelling, developing story language and KS1 grammar.
Colleagues will also explore how to priorities the teaching of key skills across the year.

These two half days will support teachers in developing their understanding of the y3/4maths curriculum.The course will focus on subject knowledge for the strands in the curriculum. There will also be some time to look at assessment.

The first session will focus on subject knowledge and ideas for teaching number and calculation, and time will be built in to look at assessment of some of these strands.

The second session will focus on the other strands in the curriculum and will provide support and guidance in relation to planning, focusing specifically on long term ...

In response to the rapid changes occurring in national assessment initiatives, Capita SIMS has provided a suite of additional Key Stage 4 (KS4) resources which may be imported and used to calculate headline figures for internal assessments. The resources will also enable schools to identify students who are underachieving in any of the key groups.

This forum for primary schools meets three times during the year and is an opportunity for subject leaders to keep up to date and to share practice. The sessions also support ICT/computing subject leaders with developing their leadership skills through a focus on self-evaluation, action planning and monitoring to enable them to effectively lead their subject. Each session includes local, regional and national updates on computing / ICT as well as online safety. Meetings include workshop sessions on ICT resources or an aspect of pedagogy in order to develop subject knowledge. There are two d ...

This half day course is suitable for teachers in KS1 and KS2.

Colleagues will explore a range of strategies to support the teaching of phonics and word reading. The course will help colleagues plan phonics sessions, develop word reading lessons in KS1 and structure word reading intervention session for KS2

An opportunity to informally meet with the NQT Advisor and discuss anything that you would like to about your NQT Year.

This day will focus on ensuring that those involved in validating judgements at Year 2 have the necessary subject knowledge and expertise.  It will focus on detailed explanation of the framework criteria at all standards in relation to grammatical features and composition.

In the last five years, major advances have been made in both reading comprehension research and best practice in the classroom. This engaging two day course aims to help teachers and teaching assistants extend their expertise in teaching reading comprehension across the curriculum in both class and group contexts

• The characteristics of reading comprehension and common barriers some pupils experience in understanding texts


• How to get quick insights into comprehension strategies pupils are using or neglecting in your school

This half day course will support teachers in developing their understanding of the y6 maths curriculum. It will focus on subject knowledge and accurate assessment.

The course will also provide support and guidance in relation to planning, focusing specifically on long
term mapping, effective teaching sequences and how to make provision for reasoning and problem solving.