How Effective is your KS1?
Exploring the Expectations & Implications for Leaders
Description
How good is the quality of teaching and learning in your Key Stage One? As a school leader, how do you know? How confident do you feel in understanding and articulating this?
It has always been important that KS1 practice offers continuity from the EYFS, providing an approach to teaching and learning which both reflects the developmental stage of the children and offers increasing challenge, enabling all pupils to make progress towards end of Key Stage expectations. Schools are required to closely examine how the whole learning journey is connected and sequenced. Therefore it is essential that school leaders know how to best achieve this through teaching, learning and the effective use of the learning environment.
During this seminar we examine what research and data tell us about the development of 5, 6 & 7-year-old children, how they learn best and how this should be reflected in practice. Senior Leaders will be supported to evaluate their current KS1 provision to ensure that pedagogical approaches connect meaningfully to the curriculum and that key learning behaviours underpinning academic attainment are prioritised.
Benefits:
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Leaders strengthen understanding of effective, high-quality practice and provision in KS1
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Leaders gain support with strategies to accurately evaluate the quality of practice in KS1
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Reflect on an effective approach to the whole learning journey as children transition from EYFS through to KS1
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Consider the key principles of child development and recognise the importance of planning for the ways that children learn best in KS1
Audience
Heads, Senior Leaders & KS1 Leaders
Prices
Face to Face Course - £85 per person excl. VAT
Dates and Times
Summer 2025
Face to Face Courses
Whitby - Fylingdales Primary School, YO22 4TH
Tuesday 29th April
9:30am - 12:15pm
Derby - Rosehill Infant and Nursery School, YO22 4LA
Friday 2nd May
9:30am - 12:00pm
Carnforth - Ingleton Primary School, LA6 3DY
Thursday 8th May
9:30am - 12:00pm
Merseyside - Eastway Primary School, CH46 8TA
Tuesday 20th May
9:30am - 12:00pm
Buckinghamshire - Elmhurst School, HP20 2DB
Wednesday 4th June
9:30am - 12:00pm
Norfolk - Lakenham Primary School & Nursery, NR1 2HL
Wednesday 11th June
9:30am - 12:00pm
Southport - Stocksfield Avenue Primary School, NE5 2DQ
Tuesday 17th June
9:30am - 12:00pm
Middlesbrough - Brambles Primary Academy, TS3 9DB
Tuesday 24th June
9:30am - 12:00pm
Hull - Endike Academy, HU6 7UR
Wednesday 2nd July
9:30am - 12:00pm
*Please Note - Lunch will not be provided when attending Face to Face Courses, please ensure you bring a packed lunch to the course.
Autumn 2025
Face to Face Courses
Coventry - Alderman’s Green Primary School, CV2 1PP
Thursday 2nd October
9:30am - 12:00pm
Devon - Haytor View Community Primary School & Nursery, TQ12 4BD
Wednesday 8th October
9:30am - 12:00pm
Southport - Larkfield Primary School, PR9 8PA
Wednesday 15th October
9:30am - 12:00pm
Birmingham - St Michael’s Church of England Primary School, B32 3JS
Tuesday 18th November
9:30am - 12:00pm
*Please Note - Lunch will not be provided when attending Face to Face Courses, please ensure you bring a packed lunch to the course.