This two-part online course will help you to teach the higher order writing skills required to 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
• Support to develop the key skills in vocabulary, grammar and punctuation needed to meet the ‘Greater Depth’ standard
• Strategies to develop children’s composition skills and skills in proof reading, editing and improving
• Ideas on how to plan and teach exciting and motivating ‘extended units’ that will enable you to develop skills as well as provide a range of independent writing opportunities covering fiction and non-fiction
• 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 how to develop an effective plan to collect writing evidence for internal/external moderation. 

Suitable audience: Teachers in Year 6. This course is particularly suited to ECTs, teachers new to Year 6 and teachers looking for inspiration and new ideas for teaching Greater Depth skills at the end of KS2.

Zoom Sessions

• Number of sessions: 2 x 2 hour Zoom sessions
• Dates: 29th January 2025 and 11th February 2025
• Time: 1.00pm – 3.00pm
• Price: £120 + VAT per delegate (Early Bird Offer)

Terms and Conditions

Account payment information and full terms and conditions will be included on the invoice. This will be emailed to the school email address after booking.

To comply with GDPR, personal data collected for administrative purposes will be destroyed after the course has taken place.