Training and INSET

Based on the latest research and recent experience of leading curriculum development in an Outstanding school, this course will guide you through the steps to create a high-quality curriculum that balances play and explicit teaching to achieve excellent outcomes for your children.

Discover how to tackle common curriculum errors: overloaded curriculum plans, poorly defined core knowledge and badly designed tasks. Learn strategies which enable pupils to remember content long term and achieve optimal learning outcomes.

Become a better subject leader and achieve excellence for your subject. Learn how to effectively review and evaluate your subject to achieve the best outcomes for pupils. This course is designed to give participants the tools they need to excel in their role as a subject leader.

Elevate the impact of your teaching assistants. Based on the principles of Maximizing the Impact of Teaching Assistants, this course will empower your team to understand the principles of providing effective adult support. Through a focus on adult-child interactions, developing children's independence, and implementing highly effective interventions, your teaching assistants will be equipped to make a significant impact in the classroom.

Unlock the power of effective vocabulary teaching using the 'Word Aware' method. This course will provide you with a structured approach to the selection and teaching vocabulary in the Early Years or primary classrooms. Learn the principles of good vocabulary instruction and gain practical strategies for implementing a whole-school teaching approach.

Fieldwork is an often ignored aspect of the geography curriculum where teachers have little subject knowledge. This highly practical course will equip teachers with fraemwork for developing enquiry based fieldwork and disciplinary knowledge to enable pupils to ‘think like a geographer’.