Leave all your inhibitions behind and join us for a practical and fun exploration of drama games and activities to support children in immersing themselves into the world of the text. This will be a lively, hands-on workshop, where you will participate in a range of activities to encourage listening, engagement with and comprehension of the text, and exploration of the characters. You will leave with a bank of resources, activities, and ideas to incorporate into your learning journeys.  

Search and book on the Learning Zone using keyword search: Drama English

Price: Sub £120 / SLA £75 / Full £144

This course will focus on maximising progress in reading for higher attaining pupils in Year 5 and 6. We will explore approaches to reading fluency, vocabulary development and comprehension, and how differentiation for higher attainers can be managed. 

Search and book on the Learning Zone using keyword search: Depth Readers 24-25

Price: Sub £190 / SLA £100 / Full £228

This is a course for English leaders wishing to improve spelling in their school and class teachers who wish to improve their approaches to the teaching of spelling.

The following areas will be covered:

• Developing a whole school spelling approach, including a pattern of teaching and long-term planning.
• Exploring phonology, orthography, morphology and etymology.
• Building a culture of diagnostic error analysis and response.
• Developing self-correction and the effective editing and refining of written work.

Search and book on the Learning Zone using keyword search: Primary Spelling

Price: Sub £125 / SLA £80 / Full £150 

A three-session course for teachers in lower KS2 to support progress and attainment in maths and English.  

Following the removal of statutory assessment in KS1, this course is focused on curriculum planning, as well as aspects of teaching and learning, to support the progress of all children in Years 3 and 4 by exploring and reverse engineering the six-term journey from end of Year 2 to the start of upper KS2. Delegates will explore the demands of the KS1 curriculum, how to build on this and the key priorities to secure in English and maths and develop pupil profiles to support confident professional conversations around progress and attainment. 

This course is designed to strengthen future progress and attainment at the end of KS2. 

Search and book on the Learning Zone using keyword search: Progress Attainment

Price: Sub £420 / SLA £260 / Full £504 
Part 1 –Sub £280 / SLA £175 / Full £336 
Part 2 –Sub £140 / SLA £85 / Full £168

Over the last few years, research around how to teach reading effectively has been in the spotlight. This course will support class teachers in how to develop reading in the classroom to support children in becoming age related readers at the end of Key Stage 2. It can also support English leads in developing reading teaching at a whole school level. Sessions will include practical ideas around: suitable texts, fluency, vocabulary and knowledge instruction, effective comprehension strategy instruction and scaffolding and challenge in reading lessons.   

Search and book on the Learning Zone using keyword search: Excellence Reading

Price: Sub £285 / SLA £175 / Full £342