English Conference: Being Brave and Creative: Building an English curriculum

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Havering School Improvement Services Primary English Conference 2018

BEING BRAVE AND CREATIVE: BUILDING AN ENGLISH CURRICULUM Havering Learning and Development Centre, CEME Conference Centre, Marsh Way, Rainham RM13 8EU Friday 5th October 2018, 9.00am – 4.00pm Registration and refreshments from 8.30am

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*Free to Havering School Improvement Package 1 and 3 subscriber schools and academies.

Cost for non-subscribers £150 + VAT. Book your place via Havering Education Services Online Portal www.haveringeducationservices.co.uk Course Code: Hsis-1018-T022 For more details contact Courtney Silver: Tel 01708 431790 Email courtney.silver@havering.gov.uk

Programme

8.30am - 9.00am 9.00am - 10.00am 10.00am - 11.00am 11.00am - 11.30am 11.30am - 12.15pm 12.15pm - 1.15pm 1.15pm – 2.00pm 2.00pm – 2.15pm 2.15pm – 3.00pm 3.00pm – 3.45pm 3.45pm – 4.00pm

Registration, Refreshments and Exhibition Keynote 1 - Sarah Hubbard HMI Keynote 2 - Chris Wormell Refreshments and Exhibition Workshop Choice (A or B) Lunch and Exhibition Keynote 3 - Ali Sparkes Refreshments and Exhibition Workshop Choice (A,C or D) Workshop Choice (B,C or D) Prize Draw and Closing Remarks

Keynote Speakers:

Sarah Hubbard HMI - National Lead for English, Ofsted

Sarah Hubbard is one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors and Ofsted’s National Lead for English. Her inspection experience includes special and independent schools, Initial Teacher Education, as well as monitoring special measures and requires improvement schools. She is the link Her Majesty’s Inspector for Oxfordshire. A qualified teacher, Sarah has significant experience in school leadership. Her post-graduate studies include school improvement and leadership, including the National Professional Qualification for Headship. With expertise in English, Sarah was previously a Specialist Leader in Education. Sarah has led an English improvement group of collaborating secondary and primary schools and English training for national organisations.

Ali Sparkes - Author Ali Sparkes has published more than 40 books including the bestselling The Shapeshifter series. She was awarded the Blue Peter Book of the Year in 2010 for Frozen in Time and her 2015 novel Car-Jacked was a 2017 Children’s Book Award nominee.

She is dedicated to supporting and encouraging young writers through her workshops in schools and libraries.

Chris Wormell - Illustrator Chris Wormell’s first commercial book, An Alphabet of Animals, published in 1990, won that year’s Graphics Prize at the Bologna International Children’s Book Fair. He was the recipient of the 2004 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children’s Book Award for Teeth, Tails, and Tentacles.

He has published some 14 illustrated books and acted as illustrator of others’ work on at least 18 more. His books combine entrancing illustrations and compelling stories.

Workshop Sessions Session title

Presenter

Outline

A. Top Five Things to hold an audience

Ali Sparkes

After a decade of performing in schools and festivals, award-winning children’s author Ali Sparkes reckons she’s learnt a thing or three. She’s dealt with everything from projectile vomiting children in primary schools to hypnotising a packed Hay Festival theatre with a light up waistcoat.

Author

Ali will share the Top Five Things she’s learned about holding an audience of any age in a literary half nelson and inspiring it to have immense fun with writing. (And she might wear the light-up waistcoat if you’re VERY lucky).

Ali’s workshop will be irreverent and very possibly a bit rude (if the teachers she’s met in the past are anything to go by...).

B. Introducing pupils to Shakespeare

Melissa

C. CLPE (Power of Reading)

Darren Matthews

Hutchinson Globe Education

Centre for Literacy in Primary Education

This workshop will help teachers to develop their skills and confidence to lead practical approaches to teaching Shakespeare’s stories and the language of the plays in the classroom.

The Power of Reading is a school development project which engages teachers and children in the literacy curriculum using high quality books and proven teaching approaches.

This workshop gives attendees the opportunity to explore the fundamental principles that form the basis of the development of an authentic reading for pleasure school as informed by research and work from CLPE’s flagship Power of Reading programme. Participants will be shown how to work with a high quality text, exploring teaching approaches that support pupil engagement and attainment in reading and writing.

In 2016-2017: • 98% of teachers said that the project had raised children’s engagement in reading.

• 99% of teachers said that the project had raised children’s engagement in writing.

“At a time of teacher crisis and with difficulties in recruiting and retaining staff, CLPE bring back what teaching is about. My teachers are bursting with enthusiasm and creativity which they’ve passed on to the children and other teachers.” Headteacher, 2017 (continued over)

Workshop Sessions

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Session title

Presenter

Outline

C. CLPE (Power of Reading)

Darren Matthews

The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education is an independent UK charity with a global reputation that works to improve literacy teaching and learning in primary schools across the UK. Our work raises the achievement of children by helping schools to teach literacy more effectively and showing teachers how quality children’s literature can be placed at the heart of all learning.

For more information, please see https://clpe.org.uk/

D. Beyond fairy lights and extreme reading: six practical steps to creating a reading culture in your school.

Nikki Gamble

Centre for Literacy in Primary Education

Just Imagine Story Centre

We all want children to be able to read, but more than that, we want them to be readers. Sparkly reading spaces and extreme reading will establish a momentum for reading, but the effects can be short lived in they are not underpinned by deeper practices which support children on their journey towards becoming thoughtful, lifelong readers. In this practical workshop we look at six practical strategies for developing authentic communities of readers.

•R esources – less can be more •T ime to talk – connecting readers •R eading aloud – the why and the how •B eyond book corners – working spaces and shared ownership •C hallenge and reward – moving readers on •E ngaging parents – beyond the school gates 5464