INSET Packages

School-based INSET packages

Meeting your specific needs and priorities is at the heart of the Primary English Education. Whilst we have a number of standard INSET packages, we always adapt and tailor these to the unique circumstances of your school or setting. Whether you want a whole school INSET day or an after school staff meeting we can create a package that meets your school needs. Some of our most requested packages include:

• Designing a book-based curriculum;

• Teaching spoken language/oracy in the primary years

• Teaching greater depth;

• Grammar - using children’s texts to apply grammar;

• Grammar - smashing Sentences;

• Teaching vocabulary in KS1 and KS2;

• Writing – including modelled, shared and guided writing;

• Writing – editing and improving children’s writing;

• Writing - creating cohesion;

• Reading – improving comprehension, and teaching inference and deduction;

• Reading - the importance of non-fiction.

TSAs, networks and more

We provide training for Teaching School Alliances across the country. Our training helps TSAs meet their statutory training aims with the peace of mind that the training will be high quality, professional and not detract from the work of SLAs and leading teachers.

Online training

We are able to offer INSET via our own Zoom account or as the host on your own conferencing software. Just contact us for further details.

Conferences

At Primary English we appreciate how much education professionals enjoy getting out of school to learn with colleagues from other settings. From time to time, we’re asked to present at education conferences and of course, we jump at the chance.

Upcoming conferences

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, all our forthcoming conference appearances have been postponed.

Previous Conferences

• Babcock (Surrey) English Conferences 2014 – 2018

• Learning Works National Conference for Teachers on English in independent prep schools 2015

• Gateway Alliance/ Elliot Foundation English Conference 2015 & 2016

• Learning Works National Conference for Able, Gifted and Talented pupils in independent prep school 2017.

Courses

Online courses

Each term we offer a range of webinar training designed to meet the need of trainees, ECTs, support staff, teachers and English subject leaders. These courses are exceptional value for money and enable us to work with education professionals across the UK and beyond.

Our 2024/ 2025 programme includes:

• 3rd October 2024 Cracking Cohesion: Writing Training for KS1 and KS2

• 12th November 2024 Lite Bite Training: Smashing Sentences

• 19th November 2024 Lite Bite Training: Reading Between the Lines

• 3rd December 2024 Lite Bite Training: Super Spelling

• 9th January 2025 Lite Bite Training: Modelled and Shared Reading

• 11th March 2025 Teaching Greater Depth Writing in Year 6

Face-to-face courses

We specialise in high-quality face to face training. Each term we run English Subject Leader Network meetings for a number of our partner TSAs and also at Southfields Primary School, Coventry. Our 2024/2025 Coventry and Warwickshire events will be held on the following dates:

• English Subject Leaders - 15th October 2024 (new time and venue)

• English Subject Leaders - 11th February 2025 (new time and venue)

• English Subject Leaders - 11th June 2025 (new time and venue)

Visit our Eventbrite page for booking and discounts.

Writing & Editorial

Transforming a blank page into an article or teacher resource book is so rewarding. Our director, Rachel Clarke, makes regular contributions to Teach Primary and Teach Reading and Writing magazines as well as writing informative and entertaining blog posts here on the Primary English website. She also likes to turn her hand to technical reading, which she does for Scholastic UK on their splendid Reading Audit and from time to time for Collins education.

Rachel’s publications

• Assess Fluency in Reading: Reception to Year 6 published by Collins

• Reading Detectives published by Keen Kite

• Spelling Rules! published by Keen Kite

• Writing Mechanics published by Keen Kite

• Wicked Wording published by Keen Kite

• Big Cat KS2 Handbook published by Collins

• 10 minute Reading Comprehension published by Letts

• Grammar Progress Tests published by Collins

Content Creation

There’s nothing more fun than creating a lovely teaching resource. Here at Primary English we try to make resources that are practical, enjoyable and will help you raise standards. With over 28 years experience in education and considerable experience writing for publishers including Harper Collins Children’s, Collins, Keen Kite, Letts, TTS, National Literacy Trust, Findel and Teach Primary Magazine we’re confident that our content is not only creative but also meets high editorial and educational standards.