LOVE LITERACY
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BRINGING<br />
<strong>LITERACY</strong> ALIVE<br />
IN PRIMARY<br />
SCHOOLS<br />
<strong>LOVE</strong> <strong>LITERACY</strong><br />
Let’s inspire all children to love literacy!<br />
Here are some exciting and fun ways to bring literacy alive and<br />
improve English skills across your whole school.<br />
#loveliteracy<br />
@entrustenglish
COMPETITION<br />
We want to know what book characters inspire your pupils.<br />
This is their chance to draw their favourite book character and be in with a chance of winning a selection of books for your school.<br />
The winners’ work will be seen by thousands of people throughout the year, displayed on the walls of The Riverway Centre.<br />
Final submissions will need to be sent in by Thursday 24 March 2016. You can submit entries by email to<br />
inspiringfutures@entrust-ed.co.uk or by post to Love Literacy Competition, Entrust, Riverway Centre, Riverway, Stafford, ST16<br />
3TH. Full T&Cs are available by emailing inspiringfutures@entrust-ed.co.uk<br />
#loveliteracy<br />
@entrustenglish<br />
CELEBRATING WORLD BOOK DAY<br />
Everyone loves World Book Day from dressing up as your favourite book character to getting excited about literacy. If your school<br />
is participating in World Book Day, we would love to hear about it. Share your stories or pictures with us @entrustedu or<br />
facebook/entrusteducationimprovement using #loveliteracy<br />
JOIN US TO CELEBRATE 400 YEARS OF SHAKESPEARE’S CREATIVE LEGACY…<br />
We will provide you with hands-on activities and inspirational ideas that you can take back to the classroom, making your pupils’<br />
first encounter of Shakespeare an unforgettable one.<br />
This course will enable you to:<br />
> > Explore themes and language within Shakespeare’s work at different levels.<br />
> > Develop a range of drama strategies to use across the curriculum and with any age.<br />
> > Experience and practise practical approaches and activities linked to some of Shakespeare’s best known work.<br />
> > Provide engaging opportunities for your children to improve their English skills.<br />
> > Link National Shakespeare Week to British Values.<br />
Attend for the whole day or half day – we promise you will leave informed, motivated and ready to bring Shakespeare alive.<br />
Monday 1 February 2016, Entrust, Riverway Centre, Riverway, Stafford, ST16 3TH<br />
Whole Day: Macbeth and Romeo & Juliet - 9am – 4pm, £189, booking code: ENNB15061001<br />
Morning Session: Macbeth - 9am – 12pm, £99 booking code: ENNB15062001<br />
Afternoon Session: Romeo & Juliet - 1pm – 4pm, £99, booking code: ENNB15063001<br />
DARE TO LEAD<br />
The role of the subject leader is crucial in raising standards and supporting teachers and children.<br />
This support package will enhance your leadership talents and expertise and will empower you to further improve English in your<br />
school.<br />
We will work with you on a one-to-one basis and will tailor our support around your specific needs. Support can include:<br />
> > Completing an audit of provision for reading.<br />
> > Completing an audit of provision for writing.<br />
> > Developing reading in school (including reading for pleasure).<br />
> > Developing writing in school (including writing across the curriculum).<br />
> > Analysing data and creating an action plan.<br />
> > Carrying out lesson observations and scrutiny of books.<br />
> > Designing bespoke CPD for staff (including support staff).<br />
> > Preparing for a subject leader interview.<br />
> > Developing an English policy.<br />
One half day (3 hours) of support per term £900<br />
One day (6 hours) of support per term £1,725
BRING THE TRADITIONAL TALE OF ROBIN HOOD TO LIFE<br />
Based on the heroic outlaw from Sherwood Forest, this teaching resource will enable you to achieve a range of objectives from the<br />
National Curriculum and will provide you with new and exciting ideas to inspire and motivate your pupils.<br />
The resource:<br />
> > Is aligned to the current National Curriculum (particularly English with some other curriculum links).<br />
> > Suggests age-appropriate texts.<br />
> > Will enable you to meet your national curriculum statutory requirements for teaching spoken word.<br />
> > Provides writing ideas for each year group.<br />
> > Gives ideas to launch the text with the whole school, a year group and a class unit.<br />
> > Provides guided reading and book-club questions linked to the text.<br />
> > Can be enhanced by watching the New Vic Theatre’s (Stoke-on-Trent) adaptation of Robin Hood and Marian.<br />
> > Lists useful websites.<br />
> > Is provided in paper copy and on a disc.<br />
Inspire your pupils today for only £20.<br />
#loveliteracy<br />
@entrustenglish<br />
ADVENTURE TALES<br />
All good stories come from experience.<br />
Available for Years 4 to 6, the aim of our Adventure Tales programme is to enable children to create their own thrilling short story, in<br />
turn developing their literacy and creative writing skills.<br />
Over two days at one of the Entrust Outdoor Centres, pupils will create a story based around their own adventure. With notebook<br />
in hand, they will set off on a journey of exploration and adventure. Along the way they will collect ideas for stories, beginning onsite<br />
and concluding back in your classroom.<br />
Adventure Tales is available from 1st September to 30th April.<br />
Pupils will benefit from:<br />
> > Confidence and character<br />
> > Skills for life<br />
> > Social and emotional awareness<br />
> > Environmental awareness<br />
> > Increased motivation and appetite for learning<br />
> > An appreciation as to how practical and theoretical learning interface<br />
£60 per person<br />
INSPIRING BOYS TO WRITE<br />
How do you use your knowledge of boys’ development to engage and motivate them when planning writing activities? What does<br />
effective practice to support boys learning to write in the early years look like? Have you ever considered why our early years boys<br />
do not achieve as well as the girls, particularly in writing?<br />
This course will enable you to:<br />
> > Develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to effectively support boys writing development.<br />
> > Be able to understand the specific needs of boys in learning to write.<br />
> > Acknowledge existing effective practice and identify how to extend this further.<br />
> > Explore and create activities and resources to further engage and motivate boys to want to write.<br />
18 January 2016, 9.30am – 12.30pm, Entrust, Riverway Centre, Riverway, Stafford, ST16 3TH<br />
Places cost £99+VAT. Booking code: EYRB15303001
TIARAS AND TURRETS - EXPLORING THE ART OF STORYTELLING<br />
This bitesize course will explore the key skills of storytelling in the early years.<br />
This course will enable you to:<br />
> > Explore the key skills of storytelling through the theme of kings, queens, princes and princesses.<br />
> > Develop key strategies to support children to develop storytelling and support the development of their writing voice.<br />
22 February 2016, 4pm – 6pm, Entrust, Riverway Centre, Riverway, Stafford, ST16 3TH<br />
Places cost £99+VAT. Booking code: EYRB15309001<br />
#loveliteracy<br />
@entrustenglish<br />
ASPIRE TO EXCEED IN <strong>LITERACY</strong><br />
This bitesize session will support early years staff in identifying the key aspects of the ELG and Exceeding descriptors. We will<br />
identify the basic skills that need to be in place to support attainment.<br />
This course will enable you to:<br />
> > Explore and clarify the expectations of the Early Learning Goals and exceeding descriptors for Reading and Writing.<br />
> > Have a range of ideas to support the provision of opportunities to reach the exceeding level<br />
> > Focus on the basic skills that will need to be in place in order to support this.<br />
7 March 2016, 4pm – 6pm, Entrust, Riverway Centre, Riverway, Stafford, ST16 3TH<br />
Places cost £99+VAT. Booking code: EYRB15319001<br />
IGNITE THE SPARK <strong>LITERACY</strong> HOLIDAY HUBS<br />
Our Ignite the Spark holiday hub is a fun-based, three-day educational booster, delivered in your school by our specialist<br />
consultants.<br />
This hub explores literacy texts in a creative way involving drama, music and art. The activities we facilitate are a medium for<br />
problem solving and developing communication and interaction skills.<br />
Ignite the Spark lasts three days, runs from 9am – 3pm, and is available on the following dates:<br />
> > 17th -19th February 2016<br />
> > 4th -6th April 2016<br />
> > 1st -3rd June 2016<br />
> > 27th – 29th July 2016<br />
> > 3rd- 5th August 2016<br />
There must be a minimum of 20 pupils. Snacks are included, but schools must make arrangements for children’s lunches.<br />
£250 per pupil<br />
DYSLEXIA WORKSHOPS<br />
Our Dyslexia Workshops support staff to develop their knowledge and skills to support pupils with literacy difficulties. Each<br />
workshop is tailored to your specific school’s needs and can cover the following themes:<br />
> > Planning an intervention programme<br />
> > Delivering fast and effective literacy support sessions<br />
> > Multisensory approaches to phonics and spelling<br />
> > Developing reading fluency<br />
> > Creating a literacy toolkit<br />
> > Dyslexia awareness for new Teaching Assistants<br />
Our workshops are available on selected Wednesday afternoons, 1.30pm to 3.30pm.<br />
£300
Start your literacy adventure...<br />
0300 111 8030<br />
enquiries@entrust-ed.co.uk<br />
www.entrust-ed.co.uk<br />
Please note that prices and product specifications are correct<br />
at time of publication but remain subject to change without<br />
notice and may vary from time to time. Please contact Entrust<br />
to confirm pricing and product availability.<br />
#loveliteracy<br />
@entrustenglish
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