Our training courses outline devised interventions and how you can deliver them. They all come with a full pack of resources that you can start using right away.

1. Persistent Literacy Difficulties (for primary schools) - email us to book. Understand the key factors impacting on early literacy development​, and how persistent literacy difficulties may present in the classroom​. Know how to use assessments to identify characteristics of persistent literacy difficulties, and which strategies or interventions to use.
   
   
2. Using Informal Literacy Assessments to Identify a Pupil's Strengths and Needs for Target Setting (for Teaching Assistants) - email us to book. Learn how to carry out diagnostic assessments in word reading, phonic knowledge, spelling and phonological awareness. Identify strengths and needs from the assessments to inform target setting and intervention teaching, and understand how diagnostic assessments fit into the 'assess, plan, do, review' cycle. 
   
   

We also offer whole school training options.

• Persistent Literacy Difficulties  
  A course to support developing the skills to assess and identify pupils who may have persistent literacy difficulties.

• Using Diagnostic Literacy Assessments to Identify a Pupil's Strengths and Needs for Target Setting  
  How to administer the Cognition and Learning Team’s diagnostic assessments in phonological awareness and word reading and spelling of Phase 2-5 words, first hundred words and additional common exception words. 

• Whizzy's Words - 2
  A individual highly structured, multisensory early phonics intervention for pupils who are struggling to learn Phase 2 sounds. 
  
  
• Forward with Phonics
  Phase 3 - 5 Phonic Intervention for children from Year 2 upwards, who have not made progress despite catch up using the school's systematic synthetic phonics programme.
  
  
• Inference Detectives
  Small group comprehension intervention for pupils in early KS2 who can decode at year 3/4 level, but struggle to make inferences when reading.

• Strategies for children with Writing Difficulties
  This course examines strategies and resources to support early writing skills and to develop independent and confident writing skills.  

• UCAN - 2 (Understanding Calculation and Number 2nd edition)
  An individual assessment and intervention which breaks down early number skills into small steps using a concrete, pictorial and abstraction approach for Reception to Year 3.

• Secondary Age Reading Intervention
  An individual reading intervention that follows the structure of the phonics phases and uses etymology to support pupils with developing the skills to read longer words.  Aimed at children in secondary school with a minimum reading age of 8 years. 
• Bespoke options. Discuss your schools' needs with the Cognition and Learning Team, or tailor the topics above to your school's exact needs.

Pricing

Early Years Vision Impairment 

The course provides staff supporting children with vision impairment in early years settings with an introduction to vision impairment (VI), outlining the impact of VI upon development, and provides practical advice and strategies to promote a young child’s access to their play and learning.

Effective Access for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment

This course provides staff working with children and young people with vision impairment in Year 1 and above with an introduction to vision impairment, the impact upon learning and development, and provides practical advice and strategies to promote access to the curriculum and inclusion.

Resource Modification and Access for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment

Find out how to modify curriculum materials (text and diagrams) for learners with vision impairment. Find out how to use Bookshare, learn techniques for supporting in class and understand shortcut keys.

Advanced Drawing Using Microsoft Office for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment

This course leads on from the Resource Modification and Access workshop and is designed for the attendees who wish to learn more advanced modification techniques to support access (please ensure you have attended the Resource Modification and Access workshop before booking onto this workshop).

How to support Children and Young People with Vision Impairment in Physical Education

The course provides staff supporting children with vision impairment in physical education (PE) with an introduction to vision impairment (VI), outlining the impact of VI upon access to PE and provides practical advice and strategies to promote inclusion.