BESA CORNER
This month, in our ongoing feature highlighting the work of members of the UK education suppliers’ trade body BESA, we hear from provider of products and services to schools and educational settings HERTS FOR LEARNING; and maths teaching resources provider WHITE ROSE MATHS.
Accelerating achievement in children’s reading fluency
and comprehension Herts for Learning (HfL) is a provider of products and services to schools and educational settings. We believe that every young person, through access to a great education, should be able to realise their potential, regardless of where they live or their circumstances. One strand to HfL’s work is evidence-informed teaching and
learning projects, which are developed to replicate the results of previous successful small scale work with schools, solve new or existing problems or support or develop new approaches. One such project is HfL’s Key Stage 2 (KS2) Reading Fluency Project,
designed and delivered by the HfL primary teaching and learning English team, which incorporates the strategies of modelled expressive reading, echo reading, repeated re-reading, skilled questioning, challenging text selection and modelling comprehension skills. Delivered over an eight-week period, the aim of the project is to improve the trajectory of Year 6 pupils (summer term Year 5) towards the expected standard in reading at the end of KS2. The project is being delivered with schools in Hertfordshire and surrounding counties, including Central Bedfordshire, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest. Since its launch in autumn 2017, over 60 Hertfordshire schools have taken part in the KS2 Reading Fluency Project, involving over 300 Year 5 and 6 pupils.
Impact and outcomes from the 8-week project Pupils on the autumn 2017 round of the KS2 Reading Fluency Project made an average of 30 months’ progress in reading comprehension age, with pupils in the spring 2018 round reaching an average of 23 months’ progress. In the same period (autumn round 2018), pupils in receipt of pupil premium grant (PPG) funding made an average of 31- and-a-half months progress. {updated data - August 2018} Provisional 2018 SATs data was collected for 292 project pupils.
74% of these pupils achieved 98+ scaled score in the 2018 SATs reading test – all of these pupils were judged as being ‘not on track’ to reach the Expected Standard the start of the project; 60% of these pupils achieved the Expected Standard (this equates to 175 pupils); 5% of this cohort achieved the Greater Depth Standard. Pupils typically demonstrated the following changes in reading
behaviour: •increased stamina – able to read more text for a longer period whilst retaining understanding • increased accuracy – children make less substitutions, omissions, mispronunciations, additions when reading a ‘cold’ text
• increased enjoyment – pupils read more and are more willing to explore a wider range of literature
• increased confidence – pupils tackle challenging texts with greater willingness and show improved tenacity in teasing out meaning • increased engagement – pupils offer more extended contributions in group discussions about challenging texts. Research by The Institute for Effective Education concluded: “Our
findings demonstrate that the eight-week HfL KS2 Reading Fluency Project had a positive impact on pupils’ progress in reading accuracy and comprehension.” Following on from the success of this project, HfL has also launched Reading Fluency Projects for KS1 and KS3.
To learn more about Reading Fluency and our one-day CPD events on the project, or to host an event in your area please contact
reading.fluency@hertsforlearning.co.uk or visit
http://bit.ly/KS2RFProject
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Every small step counts! Maths teaching resources
from White Rose Maths At White Rose Maths our mission is to make every teacher of maths, a world-class teacher of maths! Our expert team is made up of a group of passionate mathematicians, all working hard to achieve this goal. With our Schemes of Learning and maths teaching resources being
used in around 75% of UK Primary schools, last year we turned our attention to Secondary school resources, with an ambitious plan to develop teaching for mastery schemes for across Secondary mathematics as well. Currently resources for Year 7, Year 8 and Year 10 are available, together with a post-16 GCSE resit scheme. Next year we’ll release resources for Year 9 and Year 11 to complete KS3/KS4. Our teaching resources are now being used in schools in 196
countries globally with over 20 million downloads from schools from across the UK, Europe, North and South America, Scandinavia, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australasia. The training we deliver receives excellent feedback. Our Maths
Specialists travel across the UK and worldwide with recent visits to Dubai, Germany, Spain and Portugal to train teachers. Here’s a sample of delegate quotes from our sessions:
“Superbly knowledgeable and wonderfully practical – the best
training I’ve been on!” “Really made me think! Interactive, engaging with an enthusiastic
and infectious energy” “I wish we had White Rose Maths sessions every term as it is the
best maths training I’ve had. Can’t wait to use it in my own class!”
White Rose Maths was recently selected by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) to deliver Early Years training as part of a pilot scheme in Yorkshire and Essex. Primary schools are currently being recruited to join the trial programme and can register an interest on our web site. We are constantly reviewing and releasing new materials to ensure
our Maths teaching resources remain at the forefront of mathematics education. More new initiatives are coming soon, some of the current materials on offer include…
FREE Planning Materials for Teachers Our Schemes of Learning are broken down into termly blocks of learning with small steps for teachers to follow. We provide end of block assessments to monitor ongoing understanding, plus end of term assessments to check termly progress.
FREE Classroom Resources Interactive whiteboard files complement the learning blocks plus problem solving initiatives such as #Barvember and Problem of the Day are free to download for students to get involved!
Premium Resources We’ve recently launched new premium content such as printable worksheets and online training. For very little cost teachers can access a corresponding worksheet for each small step in our schemes, and even undertake Bar Modelling training through a series of online videos, with CPA content coming soon…
Training Courses & CPD Events Our Maths Specialists visit schools to deliver training on teaching mathematics using a mastery approach. Additionally, we run full day CPD events UK-wide for individual teachers to enhance their skills and knowledge.
www.whiterosemaths.com December 2019
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