AUTUMN TERM 2008
CREATIVE
APPROACHES TO WRITING IN KEY
STAGE 2
Sue McGonigle,
CLPE and Jo Pruden
In this one day
course we will consider the
literacy environment within the
KS2 classroom and the contexts
which can support children as
they create and shape texts.
Drawing on CLPE’s research and
recent projects we will explore
a range of creative ways into
writing to engage all children.
The course will also focus on
publishing and presenting their
work to a high standard. Jo
Pruden, formerly of Shapla
School, Tower Hamlets will be
talking about her
practice, and showing many
examples of work.
Date: Wednesday
15 October
Course fee £100 subscribing/£115
non-subscribing schools and LAs
KS1 and KS2 teachers
Course application
form
DEVELOPING
SPELLING IN THE CLASSROOM AND IN
SCHOOL
Olivia
O’Sullivan, CLPE
In this course,
Olivia O’Sullivan co-author of
Understanding Spelling (Routledge,
2007) will look at children’s
spelling development, introduce
practical approaches for Key
Stages 1 and 2, offer a
framework for a school policy on
spelling, and introduce course
members to an assessment
framework to support children
with difficulties. Course
members will receive a copy of
Understanding Spelling as
part of the course.
Date: Wednesday 5
November
Course fee £115 subscribing/£130
non-subscribing schools and LAs
KS1 and KS2 teachers, English
Subject Leaders
Course application
form
10 great ways to
teach and enjoy poetry
Jenny Vernon
CLPE
A one-day course
for teachers on teaching poetry
– enthusing, reading, writing,
performing – and creating
teaching sequences. You will
have an opportunity to enjoy and
explore a range of poetry and
ways of working in the
classroom.
Date: Friday 7
November 2008
Course fee £100 subscribing/£115
non-subscribing schools and LAs
KS1 & KS2
teachers,
English Subject Leaders
Course application
form
PLANNING
CREATIVELY AROUND TEXTS IN YEARS
1 AND 2
Jane Bunting, CLPE
This course will
explore ways teachers can plan a
rich extended literacy
curriculum in years 1 and 2,
planning blocks of work around a
strong well chosen book. Working
in this way enables teachers to
work creatively to ensure
meaningful opportunities for
talk, and to plan relevant and
purposeful reading and writing
experiences. We will consider
the ways in which play,
role-play, drama, storytelling
and ICT combine to develop
children’s confidence and
success as readers and writers.
Date: Wednesday
12 November 2008
Course fee £100
subscribing/£115 non-subscribing
schools and LAs
KS1 Teachers,
English Subject Leaders
Course application
form
CREATING
MULTIMEDIA TEXTS
Olivia O’Sullivan CLPE
In this one-day
course you will learn how to
create stories with PowerPoint
and PhotoStory using text,
images, animations and sound.
With the guidance of a
sympathetic tutor by the end of
the day you will have made your
own electronic talking books to
take away. An entirely
practical course.
Date: Tuesday 18
November 2008
Course fee: £125
subscribing/£140 non-subscribing
schools and LAs
Teachers and
Teaching Assistants
Course application
form
Planning
creatively around texts in Years
5 and 6
Sue McGonigle, CLPE
This course will
explore ways teachers can
develop a literature based
literacy curriculum in years 5
and 6 working with strong
literacy texts to plan 2-6 week
blocks of work using a range of
creative teaching approaches.
This course will draw on recent
projects led by CLPE which have
shown that focusing on a whole
text over a longer period of
time supports children’s
engagement with books and
reading and is also reflected in
the quality of their writing.
Date: Friday 28
November 2007
Course fee £100 subscribing/£115
non-subscribing schools and LAs
KS2 teachers,
English Subject Leaders
Course application
form
SPRING TERM 2009
TEACHING LITERACY
WITH MULTICULTURAL BOOKS IN KEY
STAGE 2
Jenny Vernon,
CLPE
The National
Curriculum requires children to
study texts from a variety of
cultures and traditions. This
one-day course builds on the
CLPE/QCA Reading Differences
project, which focused on
introducing children to a
broader range of literature from
around the world, and ways of
teaching it in KS2. Teaching
sequences from the project will
be shared.
Date: Friday 23
January 2009
Course fee £100
subscribing/£115 non-subscribing
schools and LAs
KS2 Teachers, English
Subject Leaders
WRITING In Key
Stage 1
Jane Bunting,
CLPE
Children’s
confidence and competence in
oral language plays a vital role
in their writing development.
This course will explore ways to
create language-rich classrooms
anchored in a shared enjoyment
of reading which will encourage
children to experiment with both
spoken and written language. It
will consider ways to develop
purposeful and meaningful
approaches to writing which
encourage children to clarify
and organise their ideas for
writing through play, talk,
role-play and storytelling.
Date: Tuesday 27
January 2009
Course fee £100
subscribing/£115 non-subscribing
schools and LAs
KS1 Teachers and Teaching
Assistants
BOYS AND
LITERACY
Sue McGonigle and Olivia
O’Sullivan, CLPE
This course will
explore the issues around boys’
achievement in literacy. We will
look at a range of effective and
creative ways to motivate boys
and support their progress in
reading and writing, drawing
closely on the centre’s research
and experience in this area.
Date: Tuesday 27
January 2009
Course fee £100 subscribing/£115
non-subscribing schools and LAs
KS1 & KS2
teachers,
English Subject
Leaders
Planning
creatively around texts in Years
5 and 6
Sue McGonigle,
CLPE
This course will
explore ways teachers can
develop a literature-based
literacy curriculum in Years 5
and 6, working with strong
literary texts to plan 2-6 weeks
blocks of work. The course will
draw on recent writing projects
led by CLPE which have shown
that where children focus on a
whole text over a longer period,
the quality of their writing
reflects this deeper engagement.
Date: Friday 6
March 2009
Course fee £100
subscribing/£115 non-subscribing
schools and LAs
Year 5 and 6 teachers, English
Subject Leaders
PLANNING
CREATIVELY AROUND TEXTS IN YEARS
3 AND 4
Jenny Vernon, CLPE
This course will
explore ways teachers can
develop a literature based
literacy curriculum in years 3
and 4 working with strong
literacy texts to plan 2-6 week
blocks of work using a range of
creative teaching approaches.
This course will draw on recent
projects led by CLPE which have
shown that focusing on a whole
text over a longer period of
time supports children’s
engagement with books and
reading and is also reflected in
the quality of their writing.
Date: Tuesday 10
March 2009
Course fee £100
subscribing/£115 non-subscribing
schools and LAs
Year 3 and 4 teachers,
English Subject
Leaders
PLANNING
CREATIVELY AROUND TEXTS IN YEARS
1 AND 2
Jane Bunting, CLPE
This course will
explore ways that teachers can
plan a rich extended literacy
curriculum in years 1 and 2,
planning blocks of work around a
strong well chosen book. Working
in this way enables teachers to
work creatively to ensure
meaningful opportunities for
talk, and to plan relevant and
purposeful reading and writing
experiences. We will consider
the ways in which play,
role-play, drama, storytelling
and ICT combine to develop
children’s confidence and
success as readers and writers.
Date: Wednesday
18 March 2009
Course fee £100 subscribing/£115
non-subscribing schools and LAs
KS1 and Reception, English
Subject Leaders
