Being able to read is the key to the rest of the curriculum. For Year 6 pupils, this means that meeting the standard is essential if they are to leave primary equipped for the next stage of thier learning.

As such, this course will examine the Year 6 reading expectations in detail. The session will explore the key skills needed to reach the expected standard and strategies for teaching reading effectively, as well as considering learning from previous reading SATs papers.  Throughout the session, there will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and engage in discussion wi ...

These 3 online sessions will focus on supporting Year 2 teachers through the year with planning, teaching and assessing both the national curriculum and the teacher assessment framework for maths.

Session 1 will focus on the statutory assessment aspect of maths including the KS1 tests and moderation.
Session 2 will focus on key aspects of Y2 subject knowledge.
Session 3 will support teachers with moderation and planning for gaps.

As part of the course, you will receive additional resources to support you to develop this aspect of maths in your school/classroom.

These surgeries provide an opportunity for teachers to discuss any pupils they would like support to assess. Year 6 teachers can bring along children's writing evidence and work alongside the LA moderator, who will provide advice and guidance about assessment and next steps in learning, as well as anything else that may be useful (such as planning ideas, text recommendations etc.)

Each session is on a 1:1 basis. Schools may send a second Year 6 teacher at no extra cost - please just add the name of any extra delegate into the booking requirements section when m ...

Over recent years, schools have worked hard on supporting staff to develop the grammatical subject knowledge necessary to teach the curriculum.

The curriculum itself though, it’s not an absolute. It contains broad objectives for each year group but does not provide the finer detail and smaller steps that are needed to support children to build incrementally on prior learning and ensure a clear progression of skills. For example, noun phrases appear in Years 2, 4 and 6 – how is this learning consolidated and built upon in Years 3 and 5?  Where should complex sentence ...

This course is an introduction to autism. It is most appropriate for colleagues with little or no experience of autism.

This training is suitable for any early years practitioner working in Reception, Nurseries, Pre-school settings and Childminders.

Training will be delivered online over two sessions.

This AET training session is available to anyone working within Early Years at a school, e.g. reception class teachers, teaching assistants, SENCo, volunteers, lunchtime staff, EY professionals working in schools. It is also appropriate for governors, student teachers o ...

This forum for subject leaders will provide information about national and local priorities, including the latest developments in primary English; advice and guidance to support the strategic leadership of English and opportunities to share best practice amongst schools. Delegates shape the agenda and sessions are tailored accordingly, allowing subject leaders the opportunity to work together on joint priorities and produce materials to use across schools.
Feedback from these sessions consistently reflects that subject leaders find it an invaluable source of information and support. W ...

Once again we are fortunate to have Tom Holloway lead the science subject leader network meetings. Tom will support you as a science leader to ensure that you are fully informed on the most up to date national and local research and guidance for the teaching and learning of science. At each meeting there will also be a focus on a core aspect of the science national curriculum.
As always there will be time in each meeting to share and discuss ideas across the network of maths leads.
This year there are 3 meetings, all online.

This course is for SAS schools only.

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In this session we will discuss the National Curriculum reading requirements for Year 6 .
In doing so, we will explore key research and strategies for teaching language comprehension in Year 6. There will also be opportunities to share good practice.

This course is for SAS schools only.

Delegates will be contacted three days before the session with details of how to access the online training, which will be sent via a link to the email address on your CPD Online account. Please ensure that the email address you have registered with is correct. If it needs changing this ...

Cohesion is one of the most significant writing issues that has come to the fore since the pandemic. Pupils from all year groups are struggling to maintain cohesion and teachers can be unsure about how to address writing that doesn't make sense. This has been emphasised through moderation, where the understanding of cohesion has been a key focus in STA training and a noticeable weakness in both the 2019 and 2022 cycles.

This half day course focuses on coherence and cohesion: what the terms mean; what cohesive devices are; how they work and strategies to support pupils in ensur ...

We are aware that there are so many things going on in schools that it often means as a maths leader that you don’t have time to keep fully up to date with what is happening in the world of mathematics. So why not come and join the maths team, once a term for an hour of updates, sharing of new resources and key information. It will also give you time to ask questions of other maths leaders and of the team.

This course will support all maths subject leaders.

Delegates will be contacted three days before the session with details of how to access the online training, whic ...