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Strategic Leadership of English

Summary

Overview:

The focus of these half-day sessions during the academic year 2026-27 is to strengthen the leadership of teaching strong foundations in writing: handwriting, spelling and sentence structure. These sessions will build on the subject knowledge and pedagogy from year one of the programme and develop its effective use to adapt teaching for pupils of differing abilities.

Content will include: the use of diagnostic assessment to identify pupil needs; the effective use of scaffolding such as shared and guided writing, oracy and dictation; monitoring of progress and feedback. The sessions will also provide opportunities to share good practice and network with other schools.

The Strategic Leadership of English Meetings will continue to be closely linked to the publication, Strong Foundations in the First Years of School, Ofsted report. Gap tasks will be set for English leaders to lead developments in school.

Course Content:

Session 1: Identifying pupil need and implementing scaffolding to adapt teaching

Session 2: Adaptive teaching: guided writing

Session 3: Monitoring of progress and provision of effective feedback

Session 4: Developing the leadership of strong foundations in English

When completing this booking form, you will be booked onto all four training dates as below. (The booking confirmation will only show the date for session 1)

Session Dates:

Session 1: Tuesday 29th September 2026, 9am - 12pm, NSPCC

Session 2: Thursday 26th November 2026, 9am - 12pm, NSPCC

Session 3: Friday 22nd January 2027, 9am - 12pm, NSPCC

Session 4: Thursday 15th April 2027, 9am - 12pm, NSPCC

Recommended for

English subject leaders. If colleagues did not attend these meetings last year, this will not be a problem.

Venue

NSPCC National Training Centre, 3 Gilmour Close, Leicester LE4 1EZ

Cost

Free for Leicester City maintained schools. £360 for non-maintained city schools and all Leicestershire schools.

Further Information

For further information, visit the PDL website or contact beth.dixon@sdsa.net

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Release named staff to attend date/s as detailed in the booking information.
Support staff with school-based activities, gap tasks and improvement work.
Engage fully with all booking opportunities, including any school-based support.
Provide at least 48 hours’ notice for cancellations. Late cancellations or non-attendance will incur a full charge.
- Maintained Leicester City primary schools (accessing the session/s free of charge) will be charged the non-maintained fee.
- Non-maintained and all Leicestershire schools will pay the advertised session fee / will not receive a refund when payment is taken upfront.

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