Course Details

Centre for Educational Excellence in the North 

A Partnership between Salford Professional Development Ltd and the National Education Trust 

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Thursday 6th June 2013, 09.00-17.00, Media CityUK

Figures show that around 780 million adults worldwide cannot read or write. With government surveys suggesting that the UK’s standards in English have slipped in comparison with other countries, in March last year, Ofsted called on providers of early years, schools and further education and skills to renew a national drive for higher standards and for more engagement with parents and learners. Ofsted’s reports over the last couple of years, Moving English Forward (published in March 2012) and Removing barriers to literacy (in January 2011) highlighted that too many of our children and young people are falling behind at the beginning of education and lack the practical skills to successfully make their way in the adult world.

A solid foundation in reading is and writing is crucial to a child’s success as they progress through primary school, into secondary school and then in later life. But, in spite of the hard work of teachers and pupils, too many children are currently not reaching the expected reading and writing levels at age 7 and age 11. The coalition Government is determined to raise literacy standards in our schools, especially of those not achieving the expected level.

The new Ofsted framework and the 2012 Teachers’ Standards focus strongly on these topics:

‘The teaching of reading, writing, communication is highly effective and cohesively planned and implemented across the curriculum’ (Ofsted)

This course will present practical ideas to ensure primary pupils secure strong outcomes, and show teachers how they can best demonstrate good progress in English and literacy lessons. A range of excellent resource materials for the classroom will be given to each delegate.

Agenda

09:30  Registration and Coffee

10:00  Opening Presentation: Best Practice in Primary Reading & Writing

• Demonstrating clear evidence of improvement in primary children’s writing and literacy
• The Importance of an Innovative Curriculum
• Identifying learners’ different starting points and needs accurately and adapting their curriculum, including any intervention programmes, to meet changing needs

10:30  Best Practice in Primary Reading: Part 1

• The journey to the classroom
• Encouraging the love of reading in school and beyond the classroom
• Implementing a wide variety of approaches to the teaching and learning of literacy that builds on the consistent use of phonics
• Improving students’ attitudes to reading and enhancing their literacy skills
• Understanding the importance of accuracy, fluency and comprehension
• Giving children key building blocks they need to understand words,
• Underpinning children’s attainment of a good standard of reading
• Inspire a lifetime love of reading
• How reading will be inspected from 2012 and what implications this may have for the management of Literacy across the school.
• What inspectors are looking for when they assess standards in reading
• What information schools might audit and review prior to inspection.

11:30  Coffee Break

11:45  Best Practice in Primary Reading: Part 2

12:30  Lunch

13:30  Best Practice in Primary Writing: Part 1

• Emphasising the teaching of writing during lessons across the curriculum
• Assessing widely across a range of genres and writing styles,
• Giving children more opportunities than the current system does to write in a wide range of ways
• Emphasising the teaching of writing during lessons across the curriculum
• Assessing writing through a mixture of both testing and summative teacher assessment
• Providing children with the right tools meaning that they will all produce good quality writing
• How reading will be inspected from 2012 and what implications this may have for the management of Literacy across the school.
• What inspectors are looking for when they assess standards in reading
• What information schools might audit and review prior to inspection.
• The importance of promoting essential writing skills

14.30    Coffee Break

14:45  Best Practice in Primary Writing: Part 2

15:30  Close of Course

Tutor

Kate Dethridge leads Churchend Primary Academy (converted Feb 1st 2011) and has completed 13 years in this Headship. The school has twice been graded 'Outstanding' by Ofsted (2005 & 2008) and the school is a National Support School. Kate has been a National Leader of Education for four years and was awarded a Fellowship with the National College last year. She has completed four short term Executive Headships. She has been a School Improvement Partner and worked with the National College to assess S.I.P. candidates. She has also been a consultant Headteacher on a National College programme for Headteachers new to the profession. Kate has been an additional Ofsted inspector and is a member of the Ofsted Primary Headteachers Reference Group. Kate is a panel member of the Bureaucracy Reference Group at the Department for Education and was part of Lord Bew's panel that reviewed Key Stage 2 Assessment & Testing in 2011.

Target Audience

The audience on the day will include: