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Strategic Leadership of English

Summary

The focus of these half-day sessions during the academic year 2025-26 is to strengthen the leadership of teaching strong foundations in writing. These sessions will summarise key learning from the training in strong foundations in EY, Y1&2 and Y3-6 so that English Leaders feel confident in supporting staff and leading the focus across school. Effective support, monitoring and evaluation will also be built into this training so that leaders can monitor its impact on teaching and learning. This CPD programme will be closely linked to the recent publication, Strong Foundations in the First Years of School, Ofsted report. Content will be linked to intent, implementation and impact to support leadership and gap tasks will be set for English leaders to lead developments in school.

The sessions will also provide opportunities to develop subject knowledge and pedagogical knowledge, share good practice and network with other schools.

Proposed session content

Session 1: Implications for the leadership of English from the new Writing Framework. Teaching strong foundations in handwriting and spelling.

Session 2: Teaching strong foundations in grammar: the development of a progression in sentence structure and other foundational skills across the school.

Session 3: Effective teaching of strong foundations in writing through linked shared and guided writing.

Session 4: Developing the leadership of strong foundations in English through video coaching of shared and guided writing.

Session 5: For those schools who are taking part in the Teaching Stronger Foundations in Writing programme: Impact session to be attended by English Subject Leaders (not the Teaching Stronger Foundations in Writing teacher delegate/s) drawing together the impact from the 3 strands of training: EY, KS1 and KS2. Leaders will share the impact of the CPD training programme on teacher practice and lower achieving pupils’ writing, including new arrivals and those with SEND, across the school.

When completing this booking form, you will be booked onto all five training dates as below. (The booking confirmation will only show the date for session 1) If your school is not taking part in the Teaching Stronger Foundations in Writing programme then you will not need to attend session 5.

Session dates

Session 1 and 2: 30th September 2025, 9am to 4pm at NSPCC

Session 3: 14th November 2025, 9am to 12noon at NSPCC

Session 4: 26th January 2026, 9am to 12noon at NSPCC

Session 5: Thursday 11^th June 2026, 9am – 12pm, virtual

Recommended for

English Leaders (it is recommended that new leaders of English attend the New Leader sessions during their first year)

It is recommended that Year Group teachers would benefit from attending the relevant Teaching Strong Foundations in Writing courses.

For example:

School A

Strategic Leadership of English - English Lead

Teaching Strong Foundations in Writing EY – EY teacher

Teaching Strong Foundations in Writing Y1-Y2 – KS1 teacher

Teaching Strong Foundations in Writing Y3-Y6 – KS2 teacher

Venue

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

Cost

Free for Leicester City maintained schools. £320 for non-maintained city schools and all Leicestershire schools.

Further Information

For further information, visit the PDL website or contact sonia.dayal@sdsa.net

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Your school's commitment to this booking

Involvement in this booking will require substantial commitment and we do need to emphasise this. Expectations between projects will vary slightly, but by signing up you and your school are agreeing to:

Release the named staff to attend all events within the programme.
Give staff the necessary support to undertake school-based activities, gap tasks and improvement work.
Engage well with the opportunities in the programme and, if invited, school-based support.
Give at least 48 hour’s notice if you are no longer able to attend a session you have booked. Failure to notify or cancellation within a 48 hour window of the training date will result in a 100% charge of the course fee. If you are a maintained Leicester City primary school, and accessing the course free of charge, the cancellation cost will be the charge advertised for non-maintained/Leicestershire schools. For non-maintained/Leicestershire schools the advertised charge will apply.

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