National Conference Sessions

The conference will include sessions by: The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, the National Literacy Trust and National Education Trust plus Micro Librarian Systems, the overall event sponsors:

• Innovation To Bring About Significant Improvements in Maths -
  Jon Trotter, Handford Hall Primary School

  How one inner city multicultural school with major problems stemming from deprivation, has been able to bring about significant improvement using Accelerated Maths.

• Daring to be Different -What makes schools 'stand out' rather than 'outstanding'? - Roy Blatchford, National Education Trust

  What makes schools 'stand out' rather than merely 'outstanding', is their daring to be different. These schools ensure that creative attention to detail over key basic skills, including literacy and numeracy, is complemented by challenging orthodoxies, and giving children the chance to have both fun and scholarship in their classrooms.

• Achieving Success with Reluctant Maths Users while using Accelerated Maths - Philip Welch, Lord Lawson of Beamish Secondary School

  Teachers from the outstanding Lord Lawson Secondary School in Gateshead reflect upon the impact of using Accelerated Maths in the classroom. They will highlight the growth they have observed in Maths' achievement, as well as share tips with teachers wishing to use Accelerated Maths in their own classrooms.

• Playing for Success– Football as a Learning Tool - Sean Daly, Charlton Athletic Football Club

  The Playing for Success initiative is a partnership between the local education authority, the Department for Education and Skills, and Charlton Athletic. It has a clear and serious educational purpose. Research shows those who take part in activities outside school are more motivated and achieve better results in school. Study support is not simply a descriptive term for schools' own extra-curricular programmes, but a new national programme to promote informal, active and, above all, enjoyable learning through activities on offer outside the school timetable.

• Peer Learning in Reading - Professor Keith Topping, Dundee University

  Paired Reading is a specific structured method for peers to use when tutoring in reading. Tutoring can be between students of the same age (but different abilities) or different ages. The method will be explained and its organisation outlined. Research will be briefly mentioned.

• Developing aWhole School Reading Programme, a Leadership Perspective - Julie Rose, Sir John Hunt of Ernest College

  Julie Rose is a successful Head Teacher in the South West who has turned around a failing school by using literacy as the cornerstone to her success. Julie will talk about how this was achieved from a Head Teacher’s perspective.

• Achieving an Outstanding Ofsted Report using the International Primary Curriculum - Avril Newman, Sir William Burrough Primary School

  Sir William Burrough Primary School in Limehouse, London is a multi-ethnic school with all the challenges that brings. During this session you will learn how an innovative senior management team and staff have used the International Primary Curriculum with reading as the cornerstone to achieve an outstanding Ofsted Inspection.

These are just a few of the sessions at the Conference, you can also hear Jonathan Douglas, Director of the National Literacy Trust talk about the Legacy of the National Year of Reading, plus many more and you even get to meet the authors who will be doing book signing sessions too!