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📚 Leading whole-school literacy? A successful strategy starts with the right interventions, at the right time, in the right places.

Whether you're a SENCO, literacy lead or part of the school leadership team, our free guide will help you develop a strategic approach to literacy intervention that supports every learner.

Key topics include:
🌍 What effective Universal Support looks like across every classroom
📝 When and how to implement Targeted (Tier 2 and 3) interventions
🏫 How specialist provision fits into a whole-school literacy strategy

Plus a 6-step approach to building a comprehensive literacy intervention strategy that works for you, your students and the school.

Download your free copy here: https://ow.ly/hfxC50ZmNU0

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us on Friday at Pencoedtre High School to explore literacy transition across KS2–4.

It was a fantastic morning, with so many valuable discussions, shared ideas and examples of collaboration to support learners as they move through key stages.

A special thank you to the staff from Pencoedtre High School and Oakfield Primary School for taking the time to take part in some filming with us. We can't wait to share more about this soon, so keep an eye out!

A successful transition to secondary school can depend heavily on the strength of a student’s literacy skills.

When reading gaps go unaddressed at this crucial time, students risk being locked out of the entire curriculum.

So, what can we do to ensure this doesn’t happen?

In our latest blog, Lexonic education lead Kate Jones explores why literacy should be at the heart of transition planning, and shares practical insights into how schools can turn potential barriers into opportunities for success.

Read the blog here: https://lexonic.org/resources/blog/building-the-bridge-why-reading-is-the-key-to-a-successful-year-6-7-transition

⏰ There's still time to join us at Pencoedtre High School this Friday!

Register for your free place here: https://closing-the-reading-gap.eventbrite.co.uk

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It was a real pleasure to spend the day with colleagues across Amethyst Academies Trust.

We are really looking forward to working alongside you to support your students' literacy development and can't wait to see the impact of the training and interventions over the coming weeks and months.

Thank you to everyone who took part in the training, we really enjoyed working with you all.

Festival vibes today...

Our literacy experts Sarah Ledger and Kate Jones are heading to Barry on 10th July to deliver a PD morning on closing the transition literacy gap across KS2-4.

We're inviting all English, SEND, reading and intervention leads and teachers from across Primary and Secondary Schools in Wales to explore how we can strengthen and secure reading skills throughout KS2-4.

Take a look below at the areas we'll be covering during the session but don't hang around - places are limited.

Sign-up for free here: https://closing-the-reading-gap.eventbrite.co.uk/

Event details:
🧑‍🏫 Closing the reading gap across the transition years: From KS2 to KS4
📅 10th July | 9.15am-12.15pm
📍 Pencoedtre High School, Merthyr Dyfan Road, Barry, CF62 9YQ

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🧑‍🏫Free Literacy KS2-4 Transition PD morning in Wales

📣 Calling all teachers in Wales 📣

We are thrilled to be partnering with Pencoedtre High School in Barry to deliver a free PD morning focused on how we can close the literacy gap across the KS2-4 transition period.

🧑‍🏫 Closing the reading gap across the transition years: From KS2 to KS4

🗓️ 10th July | 9.15am-12.15pm

📍 Pencoedtre High School, Merthyr Dyfan Road, Barry, CF62 9YQ

Perfect for English, SEND, reading and intervention leads and teachers from across KS2, 3 and 4

During the session we will cover how to strengthen and secure reading skills throughout the transition period:

- Using data effectively to pinpoint barriers to reading

- Closing gaps quickly using targeted, diagnostic-led phonics interventions

- Developing reading fluency and automaticity to strengthen comprehension

- Improving literacy skills across the curriculum with a whole school approach to explicit vocabulary instruction

Places are limited - secure your place here: https://closing-the-reading-gap.eventbrite.co.uk/

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📢 CALLING ALL SENCos 📢
Join us at We Love SENCos - 10th June at LSE

We are thrilled to be partnering with Talamo to host the first We Love SENCos event.

Speakers include experts from Ofsted, leading SEND organisations, trust leadership, education technology and our very own CEO Sarah Ledger, making this a must-attend event for any SENCo, inclusion lead, school leader or trust leader.

Tickets are just £20 for a whole day of SENCo focussed CPD, helping you…

🔸Lead effective interventions across the whole school
🔸Make sense of the new government strategy
🔸Gain practical strategies to strengthen your Ofsted outcomes
🔸Discover how to cut down on admin time
🔸Secure support from your SLT
🔸Protect your wellbeing while managing increasing demands
🔸Use AI in simple, effective ways to save time

Find out more and register: https://ow.ly/xcqy50YOp1e

Are we supporting or exhausting our SEN learners?

The release of the ‘Every Child Achieving and Thriving’ White Paper promises a decade-long transformation of SEND provision. But what about the ‘Now’ generation? Are we empowering or exhausting our learners? By looking deeper at phonology and morphemic analysis, we can provide the ‘Targeted Plus’ tools required to support learners and prevent them from falling through the cracks.

Read the blog from our very own Kate Jones here: https://ow.ly/XSE450YOoSl