English Hubs

Springhill Catholic Primary School are proud to be an English Hub school where they provide outreach and support to all schools, academies and free schools to improve the teaching of phonics, early language and reading.

Showcase Events

Showcase events will include:

1. Observing phonics in action on a normal school day

2. A question and answer session

3. A presentation on action planning, implementation, organisation and progress

4. How to choose and use resources effectively

5. Opportunities to meet individually and discuss action planning

(refreshments and lunch included)

Click here to book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/springhill-english-hub-32307022115

Supporting Early Language Development (SELD)

A school improvement course, focused on ensuring the very best outcomes in early language development.  Designed to equip teachers and leaders with a practical pedagogical understanding of both typical language development and also how to support pupils who are struggling with language acquisition. A copy of the course overview can be found here.

Booking information can be found here.

Reading for Pleasure: Transforming your school's reading culture (TSRC)

Evidence-based leadership CPD for primary English Leads.  If your early reading is in a position of strength (at least 90%), we would like to invite you to join our TSRC group – do email us to ask for an application and more information (englishhub@springhillcatholic.net)

Whiteknights are now in their third year of supporting schools as an English Hub and would like to welcome you into their school, albeit virtually, to see phonics teaching in action, hear the key messages of the English Hub Programme and access support.

Whiteknights are offering a free, showcase events for Head Teachers and Reading Leaders to learn about the work of the English Hubs, see phonics teaching in action and find out how you can access their support.

You can claim up to £160 per attendee (max two) in costs for supply cover to attend the virtual showcase if your headteacher attends the event and your school meets any two of the following criteria:

• lower than average percentage of pupils meeting the expected standard in the Year 1 phonics screening check in either 2018 or 2019 (82%);
• a higher than average proportion of pupils reading below age-related expectations;
• a higher than average proportion of children eligible for pupil premium in the school;
• Ofsted judgement of Requires Improvement or Inadequate;
• a high proportion of groups considered hard to reach such as boys; and,
• schools referred by local partners (e.g. NLEs, LAs, Opportunity Area teams).

Early reading and phonics audits

This is a supportive process which begins with a school-based audit of provision. The audit will be led by one of the Hub's Literacy Specialist and it will focus on areas such as the school’s phonics programme and consistency, use of decodable books, training of staff and reading for pleasure.

The audit may include but is not limited to:

• Support in writing a detailed Development Plan.
• A report which will identify successes and decide next steps.

Whiteknights are excited to reach out to all schools through our remote, medium-level support offer. Our webinars will be addressing different aspects of improving phonics, early language development and reading for pleasure to help all your pupils become confident readers.

To see which courses are currently in offer please CLICK HERE.

Whiteknights also run additional webinars in response to demand. Please follow the Hub on Twitter to see their upcoming events (@HubWhiteknights)

Intensive support is at the heart of the English Hub programme where eligible schools can benefit from the highest level of support, which includes funding and bespoke school-to-school support from one of Whiteknight's Literacy Specialists.

Partner schools benefit from up to £6,000 towards the cost of phonics training, resources and decodable books as well as an assigned literacy specialist who provides up to six days school-to-school support.

Whiteknights are only able to offer this level of support to schools that meet two of the eligibility criteria below:

• lower than average percentage of pupils meeting the expected standard in the phonics screening check (82%);
• a higher than average proportion of pupils reading below age-related expectations;
• a higher than average proportion of children eligible for pupil premium (22.9%);
• Ofsted judgement of Requires Improvement or Inadequate;
• a high proportion of groups considered hard to reach such as boys;
• schools referred by local partners (e.g. NLEs, LAs, Opportunity Area teams).

If your school meets two of these and you would like to get involved in the English Hub programme, please complete a self-referral form by clicking on the LINK below and we will contact you shortly.

https://www.whiteknightsenglishhub.org.uk/our-offer/register-your-interest