Booking for the Masterclasses opens on Wednesday 25 September 2024.
Date and Time: Tuesday 21 January 2025, 9am to 3.30pm plus optional twilight networking to 5pm.
Venue: Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, 44 Webber Street, London SE1 8QW (map).
Suitable for: Class teachers (EYFS-KS2), English Subject Leads, Senior Leadership.
Relevant areas of the National Curriculum: Language and Vocabulary, Oracy, Reading, Writing, PSHE.
Description of session
Full day teacher CPD.
Explore how to develop and draw upon an extended unit of work inspired by a high-quality text that will support improved attainment in literacy and support thinking skills and creativity across the curriculum.
Detail of activity
This Masterclass will be delivered by an expert advisory teacher from CLPE in partnership with award-winning children’s author Nicola Davies and will provide teachers and school leaders with knowledge of a range of creative teaching approaches that have been proven to enhance higher order thinking, reading, writing and spoken language across the primary years.
We will explore how to develop and draw upon an extended unit of work inspired by a high-quality text that will support improved attainment in literacy and support thinking skills and creativity across the curriculum.
Key areas of focus
• What we mean by creativity.
• Why creative learning is important in supporting children’s literacy development.
• Choosing and using quality texts that support development in reading and writing, as well as meaningful cross-curricular learning.
• Exploring contexts and creative teaching approaches proven to enhance literacy engagement and extend learning across the curriculum.
• A range of strategies and approaches that develop reading engagement, comprehension skills, fluency and stamina.
• Practices that shape a community of writers in which children are curious, engaged and motivated to write collaboratively, individually and independently.
• Creative approaches that best support an authentic writing process, including language and vocabulary acquisition, building of imaginative ideas, drafting, editing and publication.
• How to plan for literacy learning across the curriculum, as exemplified through a teaching sequence.
Takeaway
Participants will receive a high-quality children’s book for each primary phase (EYFS, KS1, KS2), as well as associated teaching sequences of detailed planning to support the implementation of the ideas from the day, to inspire creative and meaningful practice in their own classrooms and schools.
Booking opens for Masterclasses on Wednesday 25 September 2024.
