Tuesday 10 June 2008, York - National Railway Museum (map)
Wednesday 11 June 2008, Birmingham - Botanical Gardens (map)
Thursday 12 June 2008, London - Savoy Place (map) (now fully booked)
9.45am - 3.30pm
(registration and refreshments from 9.15am)
Costs: £175 for one delegate, £315 for two delegates from the same school/organisation
This course will look at the links between reading and writing as well as the importance of children talking the text type they are going to write. Pie Corbett will explore how a range of teaching strategies can be applied to support primary pupils as writers throughout key stages 1 and 2. The afternoon session, led by Julia Strong and Liz Chamberlain, will focus on using the National Year of Reading in the autumn term to get the whole school reading and writing. The conference builds on previous in-service provided by the NLT and Pie Corbett which focused on storytelling as a precursor to story writing.
Pie Corbett is a former primary head, whose pupils regularly won awards for fiction and poetry writing. He is well-known for his books on teaching creative writing, as well as many other educational books, schemes and anthologies. He contributed to the National Literacy Strategy by writing materials, producing videos and running training for literacy consultants. He also coordinates projects, such as the Storymaking Project. Pie writes widely in the educational press, provides training nationally and works as a poet and storyteller in schools. He is currently working with the Primary National Strategy to develop training materials on how to use talk to teach all forms of writing effectively.
Julia Strong is deputy director of the National Literacy Trust and director of the National Reading Campaign which runs Reading Connects, an initiative that focuses on helping build whole-school reading communities (www.readingconnects.org.uk). She is also part of the management team for Everybody Writes, a Booktrust and NLT partnership project which provide s teachers with high quality resources for the teaching of writing .
Liz Chamberlain is a primary teacher trainer and lead consultant on Everybody Writes
(www.everybodywrites.org.uk).
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