| Primary (3 - 11)
“Thank you for the most inspiring training day I have been to in 34 years of teaching. Your passion, sensitivity and understanding really rang home with me. It has made me think deeply and given me confidence in my own beliefs.” (Lesley Smith, Moat Hall Primary, UK)
As experienced primary school teachers and leaders, James Nottingham, Martin Renton and many of the Sustained Success Associates' work is focused on supporting primary schools and primary networks in the UK and overseas.
Every member of our team will happily offer demonstration lessons with any age or ability group, support staff in the development of teaching and learning, and help schools leaders to focus on areas of growth that will have the biggest impact on children’s lives.
We can help to make a significant contribution to:
· Curriculum planning
· Effective teaching and learning
· Innovation and creativity
· Inquiry-led learning
· From Good to Outstanding
· Leadership and school management
· Philosophy for Children
· Pupil voice
· Social and emotional well-being
· Thinking skills and critical thinking
All of the training we offer is tailor-made to suit your context and aims. Some of the most popular themes we are asked to design around include:
Tailor-made Options
CHALLENGE: to learn, children need to be working at one level above where they're at, in terms of skill, knowledge, language and conceptual development. This session looks at the reasons for this and some strategies to ensure all pupils are making progress.
COMMUNICATION: an insight into proven strategies for enhancing student and staff communication, including reference to pupil voice, listening for understanding, and dialogic teaching.
CREATIVITY: everyone can learn to be more creative. Having trained with Edward de Bono at the University of Malta, our team are able to guide your colleagues in the development of creative and lateral thinking techniques, as well as innovative programmes such as dramatic enquiry.
CRITICAL THINKING: from the Greek, kriticos, meaning “able to make judgements,” critical thinking is concerned with enabling students to present reasoned arguments, listen carefully to each other’s ideas, and to engage in independent and co-dependent decision-making.
DRAMATIC ENQUIRY: last year, James was part of a Creative Partnerships research project that identified whether children think differently when they’re in a dramatic role (they do!) This session draws on the experiences, techniques and gains that this approach to learning can have in your school.
FEEDBACK: all the work we do with students can be enhanced or threatened depending on the types of feedback we give and receive. This interactive session will explore the do’s and don’ts of feedback and point to strategies to enhance feedback further in everyday schooling.
GOOD TO OUTSTANDING: for schools in England, we can help your teaching staff to move from good to outstanding with reference to the Ofsted inspection framework
INDEPENDENT LEARNING: this session explores techniques and classroom structures for enabling our pupils to learn more effectively at home, independently at school and to develop a positive attitude towards lifelong learning.
INQUIRY LED LEARNING: encouraging pupils to question their teachers on what they do and do not understand about a subject or concept is the single most effective way of improving education (Hattie, 2008) This session explores the research behind this claim and identifies how we can provide the right classroom climate for this to happen, as well as improve our students’ ability to question us.
LEADING LEARNING: helping staff to think of themselves as “leaders of learning”, rather than “classroom managers” can have a profound effect on the effectiveness of teaching and learning in your school. This session explores this claim and offers tools and strategies to enhance everyone’s leadership capacity.
PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT: this session identifies proven ways to involving parents, and fathers in particular, in their children’s learning.
P4C: Philosophy for Children (P4C) is an outstanding way to develop critical, creative, caring and collaborative thinking. As a co-founder and director of p4c.com, the international resource and collaboration site for P4C, as well as one of the UK’s most experienced trainers, James Nottingham can help your school to develop any aspect of P4C.
QUESTIONING TECHNIQUES: including when to question children and when not to; how to question for effective learning and communication; and new ways to build on children’s natural curiosity and deepen learning.
SELF ESTEEM: for five years, James Nottingham led an award-winning, multi-million pound project to raise the self esteem and aspirations of young people across north east England. This session draws on those experiences and points at ways to develop resilient, positive and self-confident children of all ages.
THINKING SKILLS: both James Nottingham and Martin Renton have been working with Newcastle University since the mid-1990's to develop thinking for learning strategies, many of which are now part of the primary curriculum in the UK. This session draws on these experiences and identifies the very best techniques for enhancing children’s learning.
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