Details of WiT's full CPD programme for 2024/25 will be available soon.
Please see below for an overview of network opportunities that are running this year.
Early Reading Hub
Cost: Free for maintained schools. £240 per delegate for non-maintained schools.
Course Lead(s): Jo Puttick, Emma Spiers & Monika Singala
No. of sessions and dates: 3 x half days (9am-12pm). Wed 2nd Oct 2024, Tues 21st Jan 2025, Fri 2nd May 2025.
Audience: EYFS Leaders / Y1 teachers / English Leaders / Reading Leaders
Overview
Now in its third year, the aim of this network is to continue to develop leader understanding relating to best practice in reading development in the Early Years and Y1 and support knowledge and skills in monitoring and evaluating current practice and making decisions about change and embedding change.
Session Focus and Dates:
| Session | Focus | Date | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Key messages from Ofsted Review: Telling the Story. The range of aspects that need to be done well in schools to ensure good readers. Phonological awareness: phoneme manipulation. Teaching common exception words: no word is entirely tricky. Monitoring and evaluating your provision: how good is the implementation? | 2nd October 2024 (AM) | NSPCC |
| Gap Task | Monitor and evaluate pleasure for reading and shared and guided reading | N/A | N/A |
| 2 | Bridging the gap from phonics to comprehension. Fluency: What does it mean to be a reading comprehender? Being a language comprehender from the start. Assessment and book choice. When to move away from tightly phonically decodable text to graded text? | 21st January 2025 (AM) | NSPCC |
| Gap Task | Read with pupils in Y1 and Y2: are book choices correct? Are children understanding what they read? What do the children need next? | N/A | N/A |
| 3 | Bridging the gap from phonics to comprehension. Fluency: Developing oral language structures and vocabulary. The importance of F1 and how to develop early reading. Working with parents. | 2nd May 2025 (AM) | NSPCC |
| Gap Task | TBC | N/A | N/A |
If you have any questions about the Early Reading Hub, please email hayley.carter@sdsa.net
Reading Leaders' Network
Cost: Free for maintained schools. £240 per delegate for non-maintained schools.
Course Leads: Jo Puttick and Mel Hendy
No. of session(s) and dates: 3 x half day sessions (9am - 12pm). Fri 8th Nov 2024, Fri 24th Jan 2025, Thurs 3rd April 2025.
Audience: Reading leaders from all primary, infant and junior schools
Overview
These network sessions aim to develop reading leader knowledge and confidence in the teaching of all aspects of reading, continue to examine progress through the prism of the latest research, maintain knowledge of new book titles and support to identify next steps in their school’s teaching and development of reading, and how to move forward with this.
These sessions build on the ongoing success of these well-attended meetings over the past 6 years.
Discussion and sharing of good practice will be central to each meeting so that schools with similar needs can discuss strengths and CPD approaches.
If you have any questions about the Reading Leaders' Network, please email hayley.carter@sdsa.net
English CPD 2024/25 offer from Closing the Gap
To find out about the range of English CPD on offer in the city this academic year through Closing the Gap, further and booking information is available here: https://www.lpp-leicester.org.uk/english-cpd-offer-2024-25/