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Professional Development Counts 2019 / 2020 Course Outline Date Time Locations

Leadership Matters:

Updates with First for Maths

and Leading Schools

To provide an opportunity for leaders to network, learn from each other and gain an insight into current school improvement updates.

To provide professional updates for leaders based upon the emerging local and national priorities.

To share ways in which our collaborative approach can support you as leaders to lead learning in your schools with a passion and drive for excellence.

To create a leadership of learning network.

17th October 2019 28th January 2020 Annual Conference 16th June 2020

4.00pm – 5.30 pm 4.00pm – 5.30 pm 9.00am - 3.30pm

Cheshire East: TBC Cheshire West and Chester: TBC Book through First4Maths Website

Connected Curriculum For

Writing & Reading YR-Y6

Is your English curriculum ambitious and connected? Does your English curriculum layer knowledge? Do you want an increase in Greater Depth and Expected Standard readers and writers? Connected Curriculum for Writing and Reading will help secure end of year expectations, through a knowledge based curriculum. Connected Curriculum for Writing and Reading professional development will also support delegates by:

Cheshire West and Chester Year R: Friday 27th September am Year 1: Thursday 26th September pm Year 2: Thursday 26th September am Year 3: Wednesday 25th September am Year 4: Wednesday 25th September pm Year 5: Friday 4th October pm Year 6: Friday 4th October am

9.00 am – 11.45am 1.15pm – 3.45pm

Cheshire West: Dee Point Primary, Dee Point Road, Blacon, Chester. CH1 5NF

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signposting of wider curriculum enrichments, to deepen curriculum knowledge

providing strategies, skills and knowledge required to teach reading and writing at ARE and at greater depth

exploring opportunities to reinforce grammar, spelling and punctuation in context

providing vocabulary rich resources

Connected Curriculum for Writing and Reading will give practitioners the confidence and support they need to embrace the challenges of the National Curriculum for reading and writing. This interactive and engaging professional development will be explored through a new, powerful text. Delegates will also receive a beautifully crafted and detailed unit of work that centres around a new quality, language rich book, with a wealth of reading and writing possibilities.

Wirral: Year R: Thursday 10th October am Year 1: Wednesday 9th October am Year 2: Tuesday 8th October am Year 3: Tuesday 8th October pm Year 4: Wednesday 9th October pm Year 5: Friday 11th October am Year 6: Friday 11th October pm Cheshire East: Year R: Thursday 17th October am Year 1: Monday 14th October am Year 2: Thursday 17th October pm Year 3: Monday 14th October pm Year 4: Wednesday 16th October am Year 5: Friday 4th October pm Year 6: Friday 4th October am Liverpool Year R: Thursday 14th November am Year 1: Thursday 7th November am Year 2: Thursday 7th November pm Year 3: Wednesday 6th November am Year 4: Wednesday 6th November pm Year 5: Friday 8th November pm

Wirral: Devonshire Park Primary School, 51 Temple Road, Birkenhead. CH42 9JX Cheshire East: Monks Coppenhal Academy, Remer Street, CW1 4LY Liverpool: Belle Vale Primary, Besford Road, Liverpool. L25 2QF

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Course Outline Date Time Locations

Shared Reading: EYFS, KS1 and

KS2

Is reading an area of focus for your class/school? Are you keen to implement a whole class approach which explicitly teaches all aspects of the reading curriculum? This training will explore the development of reading and make reference to expectations set out in the National Curriculum and Standards and Testing Agency. More importantly, it will enable delegates to ensure they have:

ü appropriate provision for reading at both Greater Depth and National Standards

ü confidence in planning and delivering effective shared reading sessions, using appropriate texts and resources

ü the key strategies, skills and knowledge required to teach reading decoding and comprehension

This highly interactive professional development opportunity will give practitioners the confidence and support they need to embrace the challenges of the National Curriculum for Reading.

Cheshire / Wirral EYFS: Thursday 19th September pm KS1: Thursday 19th September am KS2: Wednesday 18th September am Liverpool / Wirral EYFS: Thursday 14th November pm KS1: Wednesday 13th November am KS2: Wednesday 13th Novemeber pm

9.00 am – 11.45am 1.15pm – 3.45pm

Cheshire West: Dee Point Primary, Dee Point Road, Blacon, Chester. CH1 5NF Wirral: Bedford Drive Primaey School, Bedford Drive, Birkenhead. CH42 6RT

Cracking The Phonics

Screening Check in Year 1 &

Year 2

Outline: This professional development opportunity will arm delegates with essential skills and knowledge to help maximise the number of children to pass the phonics screening check. This interactive course unpicks the complex code and analyses the difficulties and barriers children have. It will also support practitioners on how best to address the needs of those children who do not meet the required standard. Cracking the Phonics Screening Check will provide delegates with the skills of diagnostic assessment and help them reflect on pedagogy and provision, improving outcomes for all children.

Cheshire: Thursday 3rd October Wirral: Friday 27th September

9.00 am – 11.45am 1.15pm – 3.45pm

Cheshire: Cheshire View Wirral: Bedford Drive Primaey School, Bedford Drive, Birkenhead. CH42 6RT

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Course Outline Date Time Locations

Y6 SATs Success

This professional development opportunity will provide details of the expectations for teachers that are new to Year 6. Delegates will explore the details of the STA summative assessments for reading; the exemplifications materials for writing and the National Curriculum expectations for grammar, punctuation and spelling. No gaps in knowledge here!

Thursday 30th January am: Y6 Success in Reading Thursday 27th February am: Y6 Success in Writing and Grammar

9.00 am – 11.45am 1.15pm – 3.45pm

Wirral: Bedford Drive Primaey School, Bedford Drive, Birkenhead. CH42 6RT

Vocabulary Intent,

Vocabulary Implementation and Vocabulary

Impact

Is vocabulary development a focus for your school? Are you keen to broaden and deepen children’s vocabulary knowledge, supporting them in better understanding? This course helps to develop a school approach to the teaching of vocabulary, leading to stronger outcomes in terms of speaking and listening, reading comprehension and expressing ideas in writing. The course will:

ü explore the importance of vocabulary instruction

ü understand the key principles and practice ü engage in strategies for the promotion of

vocabulary development consider the use of high quality texts to create a vocabulary rich curriculum

Cheshire West: Wednesday 2nd October

9.00am – 11.45am 1.15pm – 3.45pm

Cheshire West: Dee Point Primary, Dee Point Road, Blacon, Chester. CH1 5NF

Phonics and Early Reading

Leadership Network

Outline: These sessions will support you in your role as Phonics and Early Reading Leader. There will be a different focus each half term with a sharp focus on increasing outcomes and maintaining momentum in Reading, phonics and its application.

Autumn: Thursday 10th October 2019 Spring: Thursday 6th February 2020 Summer: Thursday 7th May 20120

2.00 pm – 4.30pm

Chester TBC