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Early Comprehension Activities and Games
Dates: Thursday 16th May 2024 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Who is this course for: Key Stage One teachers and Teaching assistants
Cost: £75 per delegate
Venue: Face to face – Venue TBC
Areas Covered:
•Strategies to use to develop comprehension in Key Stage One
•Games and activities that will help children to develop understanding of different question types and how to answer them.
Course Outcomes:
•Teachers will gain a range of strategies to teach young children comprehension skills in a fun way.
•Teachers will have some resources and games that they can use when working with small groups of children.
This course will be delivered by Kate Keaveny from the LCI Team.
£75.00
Play Interaction Briefing- Establishing Social Connections with Others
Who is this course for: Exploring ways of developing social awareness and enjoying the company and interaction of another person through interactive play
Dates: Wednesday 29 November 2023 Wednesday 14 February 2024 Wednesday 12 June 2024
Time: 13:00pm-15:00pm
Cost: FREE - to those schools that have received Play Interaction training.
Venue: Will be run via Microsoft Teams
Areas Covered:
Exploring ways of developing social awareness and enjoying the company and interaction of another person through interactive play.
Focus on: -
- Copying and imitating play techniques.
- Using children’s interests to create interactive play activities e.g. people games and object/sensory play.
- Building early communication skills e.g. joint attention, looking, anticipation, turn taking.
- Generalising social interaction.
- Recording and assessment tools for communication and interaction skills.
Course Outcomes:
The Play Interaction briefing will provide trainees with a focus on ideas and techniques to help children make social connections, engage in parallel and small group play and learning with others. This includes playground interaction with peers
- Refreshed and most up to date information and ideas are used by the TA in their role.
- TAs are aware of new resources, assessment material, websites etc that support them in their work with pupils in the school.
- School to school Support.
£0.00
School Based Assessment and Identification of SpLD
Dates: - (2 Day Course)
Autumn Course: - Wednesday 4 October & Wednesday 1 November 2023, 9:00am – 3:30pm Venue: City Hall, Charles Street Leicester. Ground Floor Meeting Room 3 - G.03
or
Summer Course: - Wednesday 15 May & 12 June 2024, 9:00am – 3:30pm
Venue: City Hall Charles Street Leicester. First Floor Meeting Rooms - 15 May R-1.13 12 June - R1:14
Who is this course for: SENCos and teachers
Fee: £300 per delegate for a two day course.
Venue: Face to face (venue to be confirmed).
Will be run via Microsoft Teams if face to face not possible.
Areas Covered:
Day One:
•The SpLD pathway and early monitoring process.
•Understanding of standardised assessment terminology.
•Basic literacy and language assessments to use in school.
Day Two:
•Case studies of pupils with SpLD and SLCN.
•Understanding of how pupils with SpLD present in school.
•Support in interpreting assessment results and making judgements.
•Awareness of effective provisions of pupils with SpLD.
Course Outcomes:
•Be able to complete basic language and literacy assessments.
•Have increased confidence in interpreting results of assessments.
•Have increased confidence in identifying pupils with SpLD.
This course will be delivered by the LCI Team. (Kate Keaveny & Holly Hincks)
£300.00
School Based Assessment of Speech, Language and Communication Needs
Dates: - (Two Full Days) (Delegates must attend both days) Wednesday 22 May & Wednesday 19 June 2024
Both days 9am-3pm
Who is this course for: SENDCos and SEN Teachers. HLTAs or Level 3 teaching assistants with responsibility for assessment.
Fee: Per delegate £300 (£450 for Teacher/TA Pair – one of pair must be a qualified teacher).
Venue: Face to face. Entrance D, Badger Room, Pindar Nursery, New Parks House, Pindar Road, new Parks, Leicester LE3 9RN
Areas Covered:
Day One.
•Develop knowledge of different areas of SLCN: speech, language, and communication.
•How SLCN presents in the classroom.
•An exploration of different ways to identify SLCN difficulties.
•A practical exploration of formal and informal language assessments to use in school.
Day Two.
•Discussion of findings from case study work and recommended language assessment work.
•How to analyse language assessments.
•Identifying ways to support pupils with SLCN needs within the classroom setting.
•Exploring evidence-based intervention approaches.
This course will be delivered by the LCI Team. (Jeanette Wright)
£300.00
Supporting pupils with complex needs in mainstream
Dates:
Wednesday 8 November 2023 cancelled
Tuesday 19th March 2024 9:15-3:30pm Postponed
Tuesday 18th June 2024 9:15-3:30pm
Who is this course for: Teachers, Sencos, TAs in mainstream schools
Cost: £150 per delegate
Venue: Badger Room, New Parks House Entrance D, New Parks, Leicester. LE3 9RN
Areas Covered:
- Understanding of complex needs
- Effective ways to integrate pupils, including during play.
- Meeting need through differentiation and personalised planning
- Teaching approaches and the multi-sensory learning environment.
- Language and communication strategies.
- Assessment, outcomes and accurate monitoring of progress.
Course Outcomes:
- Participants will have:
- increased confidence in supporting pupils with more complex needs
- Information about making secure judgements about pupil baseline assessment and progress.
- knowledge of effective teaching methodology and differentiation strategies to support the child’s learning and well-being
- knowledge of other training materials and support organisations
This course will be delivered by Deb Perkins and Virginia Ursell