Literacy

We can provide training on all aspects of the English curriculum; reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, spelling, phonics, and oracy. We can also provide staff meetings on English throughout the curriculum, exploring opportunities for embedding learning. The team offers bespoke staff meetings, twilights and INSET days tailored to the needs of your school.

Our Education consultants are trained moderators and are experienced in moderating writing at the end of each key stage and across the school. We can provide support for individual year groups, whole Key Stages, or clusters across schools. We can also provide mock moderation sessions.

We are passionate about reading and improving the skills of young children. We can support you in many ways; reviewing your curriculum, providing training on the teaching of reading skills, looking at creating a reading culture across the school, supporting with planning, teaching, and assessing. We can work with individual teachers, Key Stages or whole teams. For information about the approach we feel is best for teaching writing, please read our blog or look at our resource section.

The One Education Reading Award is a quality standards mark that schools can achieve by working towards a set of criteria. The award was established to recognise those schools who build a successful reading curriculum and inspire children to read. The award also provides teachers with support through access to an online area that offers resources for the classroom, CPD materials and leadership support. The award can be purchased and completed online, with the option of purchasing school support to complement this. In completing the award, schools receive a plaque and logo to recognise the commitment and effort that they give to prioritising reading. For more information have a look at our Reading Award case studies here.

Our Education Consultants are experts in the teaching of writing and can help schools to review their current approach to find one that works specifically for them. We find that, for most schools, this tends to be a text based approach. Research suggests that this is the most effective way to teach writing and more information on this approach can be found in our blog here. Support for schools to improve writing outcomes is bespoke to suit the needs of your school but often consists of consultants modelling lessons, planning and assessment support, auditing and reviewing current provision, training, leadership support, individual teacher support or whole school support.

There are so many amazing books out there! We can provide bespoke support to help your school choose books that support the needs of your children as every school, and every cohort is different. As a starting point, we do have suggested book lists for every year group here, though we would encourage you to adapt the lists to ensure they are unique to the children you are working with.

Absolutely. Our Education Consultants have a wealth of experience in what approaches work for assessment throughout the English curriculum and are able to look at the approach that would best work for your school. Our consultants will help you to embed a monitoring and assessment process for the whole academic year, an example of which can be found here. They can also help in moderating of assessment judgements, analysis of data and identification of gaps. Our education consultants are trained in moderation. We also have team members who advise the STA on the development of the end of Key Stage statutory assessments.

One Education’s literacy specialists can help to support your Literacy or English Lead in developing their skills and knowledge in leading Literacy across the school. This support will help Literacy Leaders to feel confident in making and leading changes in reading, writing, phonics and GPS. We can audit current Literacy provision, develop an action plan and look at ways forward to implement the plan.

One Education can provide a multitude of support for schools and their parents across the curriculum. We have provided parents with workshops, meetings and one to one support. We can also help schools to provide opportunities for parent’s voice, then offer advice to analyse, review and implement findings.

We offer support for EYFS, KS1, KS2, Pupil Referral Units, Special schools. We can also provide support for transition into secondary schools.