KS2 Courses
Grammar for All: Improving subject knowledge
This course will support you to develop the skills required for pupils to reach age-related expectations throughout KS1 and KS2.
The course will develop:
- teachers’ subject knowledge, including expectations and terminology
- a range of strategies to teach vocabulary, grammar and punctuation knowledge and skills in context
- ways to embed knowledge through a range of reading and writing activities
- Suitable audience: Teachers and TAs in KS1 and KS2
- Date: 13 Jan 2020
- Time: 9.30 – 4.00pm (Registration at 9.10am)
- Venue: Rosehill Training Centre
- Price: £170
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Outstanding Reading in KS2
This course will support you to plan and teach outstanding Whole Class/Guided Reading sessions in KS2.
The course will provide:
- a comprehensive overview of all relevant documents for the teaching of reading in KS2
- a structured approach to planning, teaching and assessing reading to ensure progression
- support to develop the full range of comprehension skills including understanding of new vocabulary and inference
- advice on how to improve written comprehension skills
- advice on how to improve decoding skills at KS2 including ‘tackling’ unfamiliar words
- practical activities to develop questioning across all the Content Domain Areas using the BC Education Question Stem Cards
- an opportunity to explore planning and on-going assessment to inform next steps for teaching, including the new BC Education Reading Ladders
- an exploration of age-appropriate fiction and non-fiction texts to develop interest, understanding and vocabulary
- guidance on strategies and resources to narrow the gender gap and engage reluctant readers, especially boys
- Suitable audience: Teachers and TAs in KS2
- Date: 29 Jan 2020
- Time: 9.30 – 4.00pm (Registration at 9.10am)
- Venue: Rosehill Training Centre
- Price: £170
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Reading in Year 6: Achieving Success in the Reading Test
This course will support you on achieving success in the Year 6 Reading Test. It will develop an in-depth understanding of how to plan, teach and assess reading in Year 6 through whole class comprehension and/or guided reading.
The course will provide:
- a comprehensive overview of the reading test
- an understanding of how high-quality, whole class sessions can be used to improve comprehension, engagement and reading for pleasure
- advice on how strategic guided sessions can provide focused teaching for targeted groups and help to narrow the gender gap
- support to develop the full range of comprehension skills including understanding vocabulary in context, deduction and inference
- advice on how to improve decoding skills in Y6 – ‘tackling’ unfamiliar words ‘on the run’
- strategies to improve teachers’ questioning using the BC Education Question Stem Cards
- activities to improve written comprehension skills across all the Content Domain Areas
- an opportunity to explore planning and on-going assessment to inform next steps for teaching, including the new BC Education Reading Ladders
- an exploration of age-appropriate fiction and non-fiction texts to develop interest, understanding and vocabulary
- guidance on strategies and resources to narrow the gender gap and engage reluctant readers, especially boys
- Suitable audience: Teachers in Year 6
- Date: 3 Dec 2019
- Time: 9.30 – 4.00pm (Registration at 9.10am)
- Venue: Rosehill Training Centre
- Price: £170
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Excellence in English: Inspiring Reading and Writing in Year 3 in a unit of work
This course will support you to plan and teach a unit of work. Using a range of strategies, we will help you to inspire your children to become more confident, creative and independent readers and writers.
The course will provide:
- guidance on how to plan an effective teaching sequence within an exciting narrative unit
- a better understanding of end of year expectations to ensure a good level of progress
- advice on how to use a high-quality children’s book to inspire reading and writing
- ways to ‘hook’ children into purposeful and exciting reading and writing tasks, inspiring even the most reluctant readers and writers
- support on how to plan and teach grammar and punctuation in context, improving basic skills and final writing outcomes
- advice on improving the teaching of reading including understanding of vocabulary and comprehension
- guidance on improving the teaching of writing through the use of modelled writing
- guidance on teaching independent proof-reading and editing skills
- support on how to develop effective marking and feedback
- Suitable audience: Teachers in Year 3
- Date: 29 Nov 2019
- Time: 9.30 – 4.00pm (Registration at 9.10am)
- Venue: Rosehill Training Centre
- Price: £170
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Excellence in English: Inspiring Reading and Writing in Year 4
This course will support you to plan and teach a unit of work. Using a range of strategies, we will help you to inspire your children to become more confident, creative and independent readers and writers.
The course will provide:
- guidance on how to plan an effective teaching sequence within an exciting narrative unit
- a better understanding of end of year expectations to ensure a good level of progress
- advice on how to use a high-quality children’s book to inspire reading and writing
- ways to ‘hook’ children into purposeful and exciting reading and writing tasks, inspiring even the most reluctant readers and writers
- support on how to plan and teach grammar and punctuation in context, improving basic skills and final writing outcomes
- advice on improving the teaching of reading including understanding of vocabulary and comprehension
- guidance on improving the teaching of writing through the use of modelled writing
- guidance on teaching independent proof-reading and editing skills
- support on how to develop effective marking and feedback
- Suitable audience: Teachers in Year 4
- Date: 5 Dec 2019
- Time: 9.30 – 4.00pm (Registration at 9.10am)
- Venue: Rosehill Training Centre
- Price: £170
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Excellence in English: Inspiring Reading and Writing in Year 5
This course will support you to plan and teach a unit of work. Using a range of strategies, we will help you to inspire your children to become more confident, creative and independent readers and writers.
The course will provide:
- guidance on how to plan an effective teaching sequence within an exciting narrative unit
- a better understanding of end of year expectations to ensure a good level of progress
- advice on how to use a high-quality children’s book to inspire reading and writing
- ways to ‘hook’ children into purposeful and exciting reading and writing tasks, inspiring even the most reluctant readers and writers
- support on how to plan and teach grammar and punctuation in context, improving basic skills and final writing outcomes
- advice on improving the teaching of reading including understanding of vocabulary and comprehension
- guidance on improving the teaching of writing through the use of modelled writing
- guidance on teaching independent proof-reading and editing skills
- support on how to develop effective marking and feedback
- Suitable audience: Teachers in Year 5
- Date: 25 Nov 2019
- Time: 9.30 – 4.00pm (Registration at 9.10am)
- Venue: Rosehill Training Centre
- Price: £170
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Writing in Year 6 - ‘Expected’ at the end of KS2
You will receive expert advice on how to teach a range of writing skills to raise attainment and to ensure your children achieve the ‘Expected’ standard.
The course will provide:
- a comprehensive overview of all relevant documents for end of KS2 assessment including ‘unpicking’ the standard, advice on making accurate judgements and how to use the Exemplification materials
- support to develop the key skills in vocabulary, grammar and punctuation needed to meet the ‘Expected’ standard
- advice on how to use modelled writing to improve composition skills, including planning, drafting and editing
- guidance on effective teaching of spelling and handwriting skills
- a variety of ideas on how to motivate even the most reluctant writers, through the use of invented/real audiences and purposes, quality texts, film and ‘real-life’ experiences
- ideas for exciting opportunities to apply skills into a range of fiction and non-fiction independent writing tasks, including cross-curricular contexts
- guidance on teaching independent proof-reading and editing skills
- advice on internal/external moderation including developing an effective plan for collecting evidence
- Suitable audience: Teachers in Year 6
- Date: 12 Nov 2019
- Time: 9.30 – 4.00pm (Registration at 9.10am)
- Venue: Rosehill Training Centre
- Price: £170
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Writing in Year 6 - ‘Greater Depth’ at the end of KS2
You will receive expert advice on how to teach a range of writing skills to ensure your Higher Ability children achieve the ‘Greater Depth’ standard.
The course will provide:
- guidance on how to use all relevant documents for end of KS2 assessment to impact on teaching to the ‘Greater Depth’ standard
- an opportunity to unpick each statement in the ‘Greater Depth’ standard to fully understand the expectations and to inform teaching
- advice on how to use the Exemplification materials to support understanding of the standard and make accurate judgements
- support to develop the key skills in vocabulary, grammar and punctuation needed to meet the ‘Greater Depth’ standard
- advice on how to use modelled writing to improve composition skills, including planning, drafting and editing
- ideas on how to motivate more-able but reluctant writers, through the use of invented/real audiences and purposes, quality texts, film, ‘real-life’ experiences and cross-curricular contexts
- ideas for exciting opportunities to apply skills into a range of formal and informal independent writing tasks
- guidance on teaching independent proof-reading and editing skills
- advice on internal/external moderation including developing an effective plan for collecting evidence that includes an appropriate range of fiction and non-fiction writing
- Suitable audience: Teachers in Year 6
- Date: 16 Jan 2020
- Time: 9.30 – 4.00pm (Registration at 9.10am)
- Venue: Rosehill Training Centre
- Price: £170
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Putting the ‘WOW’ into Non-Fiction: improving the teaching of reading and writing non-fiction in Year Three
This course will support you to plan and teach non-fiction writing within a unit of work. In addition, we will give you a range of ideas for non-fiction reading and writing to use in English lessons and across the wider curriculum. We will help you to inspire your children to become more confident, creative and independent readers and writers of non-fiction.
The course will provide:
- guidance on how to plan an effective teaching sequence within an exciting non-fiction unit
- advice on how to use a range of high-quality children’s books to provide audience and purpose for non-fiction writing
- opportunities to use a range of creative approaches to inspire non-fiction reading and writing including film, drama, ICT and cross-curricular links
- guidance on how to use quality WAGOLLs to teach text type knowledge
- Suitable audience: Teachers in Year 3
- Date: 4 Feb 2020
- Time: 9.30 – 4.00pm (Registration at 9.10am)
- Venue: Rosehill Training Centre
- Price: £170
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Putting the ‘WOW’ into Non-Fiction: improving the teaching of reading and writing non-fiction in Year Four
This course will support you to plan and teach non-fiction writing within a unit of work. In addition, we will give you a range of ideas for non-fiction reading and writing to use in English lessons and across the wider curriculum. We will help you to inspire your children to become more confident, creative and independent readers and writers of non-fiction.
The course will provide:
- guidance on how to plan an effective teaching sequence within an exciting non-fiction unit
- advice on how to use a range of high-quality children’s books to provide audience and purpose for non-fiction writing
- opportunities to use a range of creative approaches to inspire non-fiction reading and writing including film, drama, ICT and cross-curricular links
- guidance on how to use quality WAGOLLs to teach text type knowledge
- Suitable audience: Teachers in Year 4
- Date: 6 Feb 2020
- Time: 9.30 – 4.00pm (Registration at 9.10am)
- Venue: Rosehill Training Centre
- Price: £170
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Putting the ‘WOW’ into Non-Fiction: improving the teaching of reading and writing non-fiction in Year Five
This course will support you to plan and teach non-fiction writing within a unit of work. In addition, we will give you a range of ideas for non-fiction reading and writing to use in English lessons and across the wider curriculum. We will help you to inspire your children to become more confident, creative and independent readers and writers of non-fiction.
The course will provide:
- guidance on how to plan an effective teaching sequence within an exciting non-fiction unit
- advice on how to use a range of high-quality children’s books to provide audience and purpose for non-fiction writing
- opportunities to use a range of creative approaches to inspire non-fiction reading and writing including film, drama, ICT and cross-curricular links
- guidance on how to use quality WAGOLLs to teach text type knowledge
- Suitable audience: Teachers in Year 5
- Date: 11 Feb 2020
- Time: 9.30 – 4.00pm (Registration at 9.10am)
- Venue: Rosehill Training Centre
- Price: £170
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Well led and informative. A chance to think and do! Lots to think about and try. I ended up with a planned unit of work.
This has given me a clearer focus for my lessons and made me re-evaluate current practice. Always so much information and lots of prompts to question our current practice.
Great step-by-step guide on a narrative unit with great grammar and reading advice included.
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