Join this interactive, online workshop specifically designed to support TAs in their work with pupils.

In order to support pupils’ knowledge, understanding and application of grammar, it is essential that all adults have a good understanding of the grammar concepts being taught, as well as the associated terminology used when talking about grammar in reading and writing. This interactive, online workshop will cover the relevant subject knowledge and terminology for the grammar concepts taught in KS1, as well as activities for pupils to develop their understanding and approaches to support them in applying grammar to their writing.

You will receive in advance all the handouts and resources for you to fully participate and, during the session, there will be opportunities to develop learning through practical activities, discussions and opportunities for questions throughout.

This session is suitable for Teaching Assistants working in KS1, as well as KS2 TAs who are supporting pupils to learn and apply KS1 grammar objectives.

Join this interactive, online workshop specifically designed to support TAs in their work with pupils.

In order to support pupils’ knowledge, understanding and application of grammar, it is essential that all adults have a good understanding of the grammar concepts being taught, as well as the associated terminology used when talking about grammar in reading and writing. This interactive, online workshop will cover the relevant subject knowledge and terminology for the grammar concepts taught in KS2, as well as activities for pupils to develop their understanding and approaches to support them in applying grammar to their writing.

You will receive in advance all the handouts and resources for you to fully participate and, during the session, there will be opportunities to develop learning through practical activities, discussions and opportunities for questions throughout.

This session is suitable for Teaching Assistants working in KS2.

Please note: KS2 TAs who are supporting pupils to learn and apply KS1 grammar objectives may find it helpful to attend the Grammar in KS1 workshop on 16.10.23.

The English spelling system is complex, leaving many pupils struggling to learn and remember patterns, rules and words, particularly when applying these to their writing.

Join this online workshop to discover the common aspects of spelling that children often find tricky to learn, remember and apply and explore practical classroom approaches to support them in developing their spelling accuracy and fluency.

Participants will consider and explore:
• The aspects of spelling that pupils often find challenging
• Practical ideas for teaching spelling patterns, rules and words, and their application to writing
• Supporting pupils to apply spelling knowledge when proofreading their writing

Suitable for: KS1 and KS2 Class Teachers, English Subject Leaders, Teaching Assistants

The course will run via Zoom with opportunities for practical activities and breakout discussions. Course handouts and resources will be sent prior to the session.

Join this interactive online workshop to develop your subject knowledge of the KS1 writing curriculum and gain new ideas to support pupils with their written work.
In many cases, Teaching Assistants are involved in supporting groups and individual pupils with their written work.
This course is designed specially to provide TAs with an understanding of the KS1 writing curriculum and its associated subject knowledge, as well as an opportunity to explore strategies and approaches for scaffolding pupils’ writing to develop independence and confidence.

Suitable for Teaching Assistants working in KS1, as well as KS2 TAs who are supporting pupils to learn and apply KS1 writing objectives.

Participants will:
• understand the national curriculum requirements for writing in KS1 and the associated subject knowledge and terminology
• explore strategies, activities and resources for working with pupils when writing
• consider approaches for scaffolding writing for pupils who find difficulty with written work

NB: Teaching Assistants working with KS2 pupils who need further support with KS1 writing objectives may find it helpful to join this session to gain practical ideas for how to scaffold writing as the foundation for KS2 expectations.

The course will run via Zoom with opportunities for practical activities and breakout discussions. Course handouts and resources will be sent prior to the session.

This series of three sessions aims to support Year 1 and Year 2 teachers to develop their understanding and confidence in assessing writing through termly CPD sessions that include opportunities to moderate writing with other Year 1 and Year 2 teachers.

Teachers may attend all three sessions or select individual sessions from the series.

Session 1 – Securing ARE / Expected Standard
In this session, teachers will secure their understanding of the Age-Related Expectations for Year 1 and Year 2 (In Year 2, the ‘Pupil can’ statements relating to the Expected Standard) and explore the subject knowledge related to these. Participants will then moderate samples of their pupils’ writing to develop and secure their understanding of the expected standard in context and to consider next steps for their own teaching.

Join this interactive online workshop to develop your subject knowledge of the Year 3/4 writing curriculum and gain new ideas to support pupils with their written work.
In many cases, Teaching Assistants are involved in supporting groups and individual pupils with their written work.
This course is designed specially to provide TAs with an understanding of the Year 5/6 writing curriculum and its associated subject knowledge, as well as an opportunity to explore strategies and approaches for scaffolding their writing to develop independence.

Suitable for Teaching Assistants working in Year 3/4, as well as Y5/6 TAs who are supporting pupils to learn and apply Y3/4 writing objectives.

Participants will:
• understand the national curriculum requirements for writing in Y5/6 and the associated subject knowledge and terminology
• explore strategies, activities and resources for working with pupils when writing
• consider approaches for scaffolding writing for pupils who find difficulty with written work

NB: Teaching Assistants working with Y3/4 pupils who need further support with KS1 writing objectives may find it helpful to join the ‘Supporting Writers in KS1’ session on 7.11.23 to gain practical ideas for how to support the development of earlier writing work as the foundation for Y3/4 expectations.

The course will run via Zoom with opportunities for practical activities and breakout discussions. Course handouts and resources will be sent prior to the session.

The 2019 Ofsted framework requires schools to ensure that all learners will receive a high-quality, ambitious education and that leaders take on or construct a curriculum that is ambitious. Therefore, it is vital that our English reading curriculum reflects this in every year-group across the phases.

This online session seeks to take a ‘top-level view’ of greater depth reading across the phases and reflect on how we can provide a reading curriculum that inspires and enriches all pupils throughout the year groups.

Participants will consider and explore:
• the characteristics of greater depth readers across the year groups
• how to provide breadth and depth in the English reading curriculum and offer high-quality, ambitious opportunities for all pupils
• strategies and approaches for encouraging and developing greater depth readers across all phases

Suitable for: English Subject Leaders, SLT, Phase Leaders, Class Teachers

The course will run via Zoom with opportunities for practical activities and breakout discussions. Course handouts and resources will be sent prior to the session.

This series of three sessions aims to support Year 3 and Year 4 teachers to develop their understanding and confidence in assessing writing through termly CPD sessions that include opportunities to moderate writing with other Year 3 and Year 4 teachers.

Teachers may attend all three sessions or select individual sessions from the series.

Session 1 – Securing ARE
In this session, teachers will secure their understanding of the Age-Related Expectations for Year 3 and Year 4 and explore the subject knowledge related to these. Participants will then moderate samples of their pupils’ writing to develop and secure their understanding of ARE in context and to consider next steps for their own teaching.

Join this interactive online workshop to develop your subject knowledge of the Year 5/6 writing curriculum and gain new ideas to support pupils with their written work.
In many cases, Teaching Assistants are involved in supporting groups and individual pupils with their written work.
This course is designed specially to provide TAs with an understanding of the Year 5/6 writing curriculum and its associated subject knowledge, as well as an opportunity to explore strategies and approaches for scaffolding their writing to develop independence.

Suitable for Teaching Assistants working in Year 5/6.

Participants will:
• understand the national curriculum requirements for writing in Y5/6 and the associated subject knowledge and terminology
• explore strategies, activities and resources for working with pupils when writing
• consider approaches for scaffolding writing for pupils who find difficulty with written work

NB: Teaching Assistants working with Y5/6 pupils who need further support with KS1 or Y3/4 writing objectives may find it helpful to join the ‘Supporting Writers in KS1’ session on 7.11.23 and/or the ‘Supporting Writers in Y3/4’ session on 22.11.23 to gain practical ideas for how to support the development of earlier writing work as the foundation for Y5/6 expectations.

The course will run via Zoom with opportunities for practical activities and breakout discussions. Course handouts and resources will be sent prior to the session.

This series of three sessions aims to support Year 5 and Year 6 teachers to develop their understanding and confidence in assessing writing through termly CPD sessions that include opportunities to moderate writing with other Year 5 and Year 6 teachers.

Teachers may attend all three sessions or select individual sessions from the series.

Session 1 – Securing ARE / Expected Standard
In this session, teachers will secure their understanding of the Age-Related Expectations for Year 5 and Year 6 (In Year 6, the ‘Pupil can’ statements relating to the Expected Standard) and explore the subject knowledge related to these. Participants will then moderate samples of their pupils’ writing to develop and secure their understanding of the expected standard in context and to consider next steps for their own teaching.

This series of three sessions aims to support Year 1 and Year 2 teachers to develop their understanding and confidence in assessing writing through termly CPD sessions that include opportunities to moderate writing with other Year 1 and Year 2 teachers.

Teachers may attend all three sessions or select individual sessions from the series.

Session 2 – Greater Depth
The second session will focus on the concept of ‘Exceeding ARE’ or ‘Greater Depth’ (In year 2, the ‘Pupil can’ statements relating to the Greater Depth standard) and develop knowledge of this. Moderation and discussion of higher attaining pupils’ writing will then support teachers to develop their understanding of greater depth in context and to consider next steps for their teaching.

The 2019 Ofsted framework requires schools to ensure that all learners will receive a high-quality, ambitious education and that leaders take on or construct a curriculum that is ambitious. Therefore, it is vital that our English writing curriculum reflects this in every year-group across the phases.

This online session seeks to take a ‘top-level view’ of greater depth writing across the phases and reflect on how we can provide a writing curriculum that inspires and enriches all pupils throughout the year groups.

Participants will consider and explore:
• the characteristics of greater depth writers across the year groups
• what greater depth writing might look like in year-groups without statutory assessment frameworks
• how to provide breadth and depth in the English writing curriculum and offer high-quality, ambitious opportunities for all pupils
• strategies and approaches for encouraging and developing greater depth writers across all phases

Suitable for: English Subject Leaders, SLT, Phase Leaders, Class Teachers

The course will run via Zoom with opportunities for practical activities and breakout discussions. Course handouts and resources will be sent prior to the session.

This series of three sessions aims to support Year 3 and Year 4 teachers to develop their understanding and confidence in assessing writing through termly CPD sessions that include opportunities to moderate writing with other Year 3 and Year 4 teachers.

Teachers may attend all three sessions or select individual sessions from the series.

Session 2 – Greater Depth
The second session will focus on the concept of ‘Exceeding ARE’ or ‘Greater Depth’ and develop knowledge of this. Moderation and discussion of higher attaining pupils’ writing will then support teachers to develop their understanding of greater depth in context and to consider next steps for their teaching.

Sentences are the building blocks of writing so, with a secure understanding of sentences, pupils’ writing will become clear and coherent with a comfortable cadence for the reader.

Join this online workshop to develop your subject knowledge of sentences and the progression in sentence work through the year groups, as well as practical ideas to support the teaching and development of sentences for writing.

Participants will consider and explore:
• Progression in sentence work through the KS1 and KS2 curriculum
• Practical ideas for teaching sentence types and their application to writing
• Supporting pupils to evaluate and improve their sentence writing

Suitable for: KS1 and KS2 Class Teachers, English Subject Leaders, Teaching Assistants

The course will run via Zoom with opportunities for practical activities and breakout discussions. Course handouts and resources will be sent prior to the session.

This series of three sessions aims to support Year 3 and Year 4 teachers to develop their understanding and confidence in assessing writing through termly CPD sessions that include opportunities to moderate writing with other Year 3 and Year 4 teachers.

Teachers may attend all three sessions or select individual sessions from the series.

Session 2 – Greater Depth
The second session will focus on the concept of ‘Exceeding ARE’ or ‘Greater Depth’ and develop knowledge of this. Moderation and discussion of higher attaining pupils’ writing will then support teachers to develop their understanding of greater depth in context and to consider next steps for their teaching.

This series of three sessions aims to support Year 3 and Year 4 teachers to develop their understanding and confidence in assessing writing through termly CPD sessions that include opportunities to moderate writing with other Year 3 and Year 4 teachers.

Teachers may attend all three sessions or select individual sessions from the series.

Session 3 – Cross-school moderation
In the final session, teachers will have an opportunity to moderate and discuss pupils’ writing from across the standards, agreeing or refining judgements with colleagues from other schools and discussing next steps to secure standards by the end of the school year.

This series of three sessions aims to support Year 3 and Year 4 teachers to develop their understanding and confidence in assessing writing through termly CPD sessions that include opportunities to moderate writing with other Year 3 and Year 4 teachers.

Teachers may attend all three sessions or select individual sessions from the series.

Session 3 – Cross-school moderation
In the final session, teachers will have an opportunity to moderate and discuss pupils’ writing from across the standards, agreeing or refining judgements with colleagues from other schools and discussing next steps to secure standards by the end of the school year.

This series of three sessions aims to support Year 1 and Year 2 teachers to develop their understanding and confidence in assessing writing through termly CPD sessions that include opportunities to moderate writing with other Year 1 and Year 2 teachers.

Teachers may attend all three sessions or select individual sessions from the series.

Session 3 – Cross-school moderation
In the final session, teachers will have an opportunity to moderate and discuss pupils’ writing from across the standards, agreeing or refining judgements with colleagues from other schools and discussing next steps to secure standards by the end of the school year.