Research School Network: Bespoke Offers for the Derby Opportunity Area 2021 2022 Funded Training Programmes for Derby Schools

KS2 Phonics Support in partnership with the Flying High English Hub

The programme offers the chance to develop the skills and knowledge of the literacy lead or KS2 lead in the implementation of targeted phonics and reading fluency interventions. There is also a £500 budget for schools to use to commission training with the phonics provider of their choice. 

Disciplinary Literacy for Secondary – Derby Research School

Following EEF’s Improving Literacy in Secondary Schools Guidance Report, the sessions will focus on the critical themes around: assessing reading fluency and implementing interventions; explicit teaching of vocabulary and oracy across the curriculum; creating a ​‘love of reading’ culture.

Primary Recovery Maths Offer – NCETM ​‘Ready to Progress’ Materials for Curriculum Prioritisation in partnership with our local Maths Hubs
The NCETM has recently published a substantial curriculum prioritisation resource for 2021/22, consisting of a curriculum map for each of Years 1 – 6 with accompanying downloadable PowerPoints (currently available for the first units). This wrap around course takes maths leaders and each phase across the school setting through a journey of self-audit to develop a curriculum that covers the full mathematics national curriculum but also prioritises those areas covered by the ready-to-progress criteria from the DfE guidance.

Evidence Informed Approaches to Curriculum Development – Derby Research School

This is a 6 module course which will focus on the best bets for intent, implementation and impact of curriculum planning. Delegates will explore and engage with evidence around curriculum to ensure progression of pupils’ knowledge and skills.- We will engage with evidence from the realm of cognitive science about making learning stick.

- We will explore how our curriculums can effectively build cultural capital and put oracy at its heart to support our most vulnerable learners

- We will have an Ofsted-readiness session making sure our curriculum is grounded in solid implementation so that we can all articulate the intent behind our curriculum

Evidence Informed Approached to Curriculum Development – Twilight Series

Our ​‘Quality of Education’ – the journey around articulating our curriculum intent, implementation and impact – is something schools have been wrestling with since the launch of the new inspection framework. How we construct and develop an ambitious curriculum to help our pupils to know more and remember more are key threads of thinking in our minds at present. Join our curriculum twilight series where we draw on key expertise and threads on how can we maximise learning to make the biggest impact.

TA Training and Support: Leadership Training and TA Training – Derby Research School

Responding to questions and reflections from previous programmes, we are offering this leadership support programme and bespoke training for TAs to support schools in how we apply a laser-sharp focus on how we are maximising funding, supporting and developing our whole staff and ultimately diagnostically meeting the needs of our learners. Targeted at school leaders, including SENDCOs, the focus includes deployment in classrooms, intervention delivery and effective implementation of your strategy.