10.01.2017. Dear Colleague, Proposed PWP school partnership starting Autumn/Spring term 2017 I write to invite you to a meeting of headteachers/senior leaders on 16.O2.17 at 2:00pm – 4:00pm Venue: Horton Grange Primary School Sign up via : The Primary Writing Project (PWP) was founded by Pie Corbett and John Stannard CBE in 2012 to provide support and training for primary schools to implement Talk for Writing in a detailed and sustainable way at whole school level - leading to transformational change. To do this, we form partnerships of between 8 and 10 schools. Our team of highly skilled and experienced PWP trainers work with the schools intensively over two years. Currently, there are more than 20 active partnerships across the country and we are scaling the programme up in selected areas. The PWP trainers work closely with school project teams, supporting them to lead and implement Talk for Writing across the whole school. The programme includes 3 whole-day training conferences for all teaching staff. The first conference day also includes teaching assistants. All our training is focussed on developing classroom practice to promote enjoyment, confidence and skills for teachers and children. In addition, we work with head teachers to create the planning and organisational systems needed to sustain the practices over time. PWP partnerships also profit from school-to-school networking and support. CPD opportunities of this kind are quite rare in today’s world and the chance to work in a sustained way over time is a feature that PWP schools value greatly. Our focus is equally on reading and writing development. We know that children must learn to read in depth to internalise the transferrable skills and language knowledge (text structures, grammatical knowledge and word choice) required for effective writing. This dual emphasis is brought into even sharper focus by the higher expectations for comprehension and composition in the new national tests and assessments. There is a persistent emphasis throughout on teaching the fundamental skills - phonics, handwriting, spelling etc., needed to free the mind for more inventive and creative writing. The PWP provides extensive resources and guidance to support staff development, planning and teaching. Each programme is directed by highly experienced trainer/practitioners, working directly to Pie and John Stannard. For schools who commit to being part of a PWP partnership, the impact can be significant. We are seeing big improvements in pupil progress, standards and teaching quality in schools
10.01.2017. Dear Colleague, Proposed PWP school partnership starting Autumn/Spring term 2017 I write to invite you to a meeting of headteachers/senior leaders on 16.O2.17 at 2:00pm – 4:00pm Venue: Horton Grange Primary School Sign up via : The Primary Writing Project (PWP) was founded by Pie Corbett and John Stannard CBE in 2012 to provide support and training for primary schools to implement Talk for Writing in a detailed and sustainable way at whole school level - leading to transformational change. To do this, we form partnerships of between 8 and 10 schools. Our team of highly skilled and experienced PWP trainers work with the schools intensively over two years. Currently, there are more than 20 active partnerships across the country and we are scaling the programme up in selected areas. The PWP trainers work closely with school project teams, supporting them to lead and implement Talk for Writing across the whole school. The programme includes 3 whole-day training conferences for all teaching staff. The first conference day also includes teaching assistants. All our training is focussed on developing classroom practice to promote enjoyment, confidence and skills for teachers and children. In addition, we work with head teachers to create the planning and organisational systems needed to sustain the practices over time. PWP partnerships also profit from school-to-school networking and support. CPD opportunities of this kind are quite rare in today’s world and the chance to work in a sustained way over time is a feature that PWP schools value greatly. Our focus is equally on reading and writing development. We know that children must learn to read in depth to internalise the transferrable skills and language knowledge (text structures, grammatical knowledge and word choice) required for effective writing. This dual emphasis is brought into even sharper focus by the higher expectations for comprehension and composition in the new national tests and assessments. There is a persistent emphasis throughout on teaching the fundamental skills - phonics, handwriting, spelling etc., needed to free the mind for more inventive and creative writing. The PWP provides extensive resources and guidance to support staff development, planning and teaching. Each programme is directed by highly experienced trainer/practitioners, working directly to Pie and John Stannard. For schools who commit to being part of a PWP partnership, the impact can be significant. We are seeing big improvements in pupil progress, standards and teaching quality in schools
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