Non-Intensive support
New for the 2022-2023 Academic Year:
Reading for Pleasure: Transforming your school's reading culture (TSRC)
Evidence-based leadership CPD for primary English Leads
The TSRC programme is a sustained, research based CPD programme aimed at primary English Leads. During the course of the programme participants will engage deeply with reading for pleasure pedagogy and leadership theory to transform their school's reading culture. Participants will attend 5 sessions and complete gap tasks in between sessions. Gap tasks will be related to developing participant's own knowledge of children's literature, understanding of reading for pleasure culture in their school. Those who commit will be expected to attend all sessions.
Programme aims:
- Understand the research underpinning RfP practice and pedagogy
- Widen knowledge of children's literature
- Transform whole school reading culture in your school
- Develop the leadership skills to initiate and sustain change
- Become advocates for RfP and share experiences and best practice
Core Session Overview:
| Pre course | Headteacher engagement session | 03/11/22 1:30-2:30pm |
|---|---|---|
| Session 1 | Reading for Pleasure: a whole school culture | 08/11/22 3:30pm-5:30pm |
| Session 2 | Creating a whole school change | 10/01/22 3:30pm-5:30pm |
| Session 3 | Creating a reading school: structural changes | 01/03/2023 3:30pm-5:30pm |
| Session 4 | Creating a reading school: behavioural changes | 02/05/23 3:30pm-5:30pm |
| Session 5 | Celebrating impact and sustaining change | 20/06/23 3:30pm-5:30pm |
Optional Workshops:
In addition to the Core Sessions outline above, New Vision English Hub are offering a series of optional workshops, designed to complement and enhance the core programme offer. These 30 minute remote workshops will focus on specific, practical elements of creating an RfP culture. Participants on the TSRC programme will be invited to sign up for these free workshops, according to their school focus.
| If your school focus is: | You could sign up to workshop: |
|---|---|
| Teachers' knowledge of children's literature | 1,3,6,8 |
| Teachers' knowledge of children's reading practices | 4,5,6,8 |
Reading for Pleasure pedagogy
| 3,4,7,9 |
| Reading Teachers: teachers who read and readers who teach | 1,4,6,8 |
| Reading communities | 2,5,9,10 |
| Date | Workshop Title | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24/11/22 | Setting up a staff book club |
| 2 | 8/12/22 | Making the most of libraries |
| 3 | 19/1/23 | Making World Book Day purposeful |
| 4 | 9/2/23 | Creating social and inviting book corners |
| 5 | 23/2/23 | Don't 'pay' children to read: developing children's intrinsic motivation to read |
| 6 | 9/3/23 | Developing informal 'book talk' |
| 7 | 23/3/23 | Intervention for Reading for Pleasure |
| 8 | 27/4/23 | Reading identities |
| 9 | 18/5/23 | Successful author visits |
| 10 | 15/6/23 | Engaging parents in your school's reading culture |
These optional workshops will run remotely from 4pm-4:30pm via Zoom.
Who is the TSRC programme for?
This programme is aimed at primary English Leaders from schools who have engaged with the English Hub programme in the past.
We will recruit 30 participants from 30 different schools.
If you are interested in the TSRC programme, please email orgillenglishhub@orgill.cumbria.sch.uk