Event Details

Day 1: 10 July 2024
Start time: 13:00
End time: 16:00

Venue: Services For Education, Unit 3 Holt Court, Holt Street, Birmingham, B7 4AX

This online course is ideal for Reading Leaders and Class Teachers who need to support pupils in their reading provision, post phonics. During the session, delegates will increase their knowledge and understanding of the following:

• What fluency is, and why it is often the missing link for struggling readers.
• Teaching fluency strategies – how do we specifically teach reading fluency, rather than leaving this key component of reading to chance?
• Exploration of the deep relationship between spoken language and reading.
• Strategies for teaching vocabulary explicitly, as well as incidentally. Ensuring that consistent systems and approaches are in place.
• How to create language-rich environments, and link this to developing our pupils’ love of reading.

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About the Adviser

Emma Mudge - Adviser, Services For Education

Emma has over 20 years of experience working in primary education. Throughout this time, she worked as a leader in a wide variety of areas, and as Assistant Head Teacher, Deputy Head Teacher, and Acting Head Teacher, she has been at the forefront of school leadership and improvement for a significant number of years.  

Emma now works as the Educational Adviser for English and is also a member of the Safeguarding team, sharing her experience and knowledge to continually promote and improve the quality of safeguarding, the standard of teaching and learning in English, and in school improvement overall. Supporting schools with the accuracy of their KS1 and KS2 writing assessments is an important part of her role as she can use her expertise as a member for the moderation team to inform, train and support teachers and school leaders. 

Emma is also part of the team which delivers the Health For Life programme (improving the healthy opportunities for primary aged children) and the NPQSL, where she proudly supports the development of our aspiring leaders in the city.