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Training for all levels of professionals, including those new to education and parents and carers. Aims to develop knowledge and confidence about how we learn to read and how we can use this knowledge to remove barriers to learning for all. Looking how to engage and motivate all learners to read including those with specific learning needs such as Dyslexia and those with more complex SEND. Strategies, ideas, and ways in are provided to get all learners reading now, using best practice research and classroom experience. 

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This is the first of two courses on reading in further education. In this course we will be exploring many of the issues as to why students struggle with reading and/or comprehension and what we can do to support learners with a wide range of strengths and weaknesses. As well as numerous practical ideas the course provides an opportunity to reflect on current practise and share effective approaches with other practitioners.

This course aims to support secondary non-specialists to deliver RSHE with confidence and skill.   

This course will explore a range of strategies to help embed a strong emphasis of phonics within your setting. It will encompass the techniques and ideas previously explored within ‘Getting Started with Phonics’ and ‘Continuing with phonics’. The course will also support you with assessing pupils’ phonetic progress and preparation for the phonics screening in Year 1.

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This course takes the PHSE Education Planning Framework for Pupils with Send and suggests ideas of sensory activities we can do to support this. Some of it is too abstract or irrelevant so it is important we plan for individuals in close consultation with their families and carers.

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This course will build on the basic phonics and the progression of phonics to enable pupils to read by six. Strategies are explored for everyday practice to ensure that all pupils make good or better progress in phonics and early reading strategies.

You will understand how to support colleagues who may be peri-menopausal or menopausal and consider the potential impact on their mental health during this time.

This course contains an overview the essential knowledge spellers need to be taught to become confident and competent, independent writers. 

In this course you will consider how to create a culture and ethos in your school which promote respect and values diversity in order to have the best foundations for your mental health strategy to be situated on. You will need to consider how your school’s current policies and priorities can connect with your mental health strategy to ensure it has the maximum potential to be embedded meaningfully and systemically in your school.

During this course we explore a range of ideas for supporting teaching and learning in art and design in the primary school.

I would like to share with you some practical ideas for encouraging meaningful engagement with people with PMLD. These activities will enhance communication, interaction, curiosity, initiation and good mental wellbeing through having fun with our senses! Through the joint participation of party activities, it is possible to create a sense of awe and wonder, anticipation, excitement and reflection. This course would be suitable for anyone who spends time with people with PMLD and who is looking for some simple yet fun activities to initiate and enhance communication.

This course will identify the basics of phonics and how it helps pupils to read by age six.  Exploring key vocabulary used to unpick different elements of phonics, putting theory into practice and learning the initial strategies used to teach children phonics.

The boys in your school and your classes face some general & some very specific pressures; from school, family, peers and especially themselves. Great teaching and maybe some different approaches will help boys to connect better with school and their learning.

This course contains an overview of the essential knowledge spellers need to be taught to become confident and competent, independent writers.

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