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2024 Year 1 Phonics Screening Check: A fine lens on a broad-brush measure

Published
10 September 2024
Findings and trends from the 2024 Y1 phonics screening check and a free analysis tool.
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A tale of two biggies: the A’s of early reading – closing the gaps for disadvantaged children - Part 2

Published
30 May 2024
In this second blog of two, Kirsten Snook explores seven top tips for application in early reading, to help close the gaps for children experiencing disadvantage.
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A tale of two biggies: the A’s of early reading – closing the gaps for disadvantaged children - Part 1

Published
23 May 2024
In this first blog of two, Kirsten Snook explores seven top tips for assessment of early reading, to help close the gaps for children experiencing disadvantage.
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Ten top tips for core subject leaders

Published
27 August 2019
Kirsten Snook reflects on what makes the biggest differences to increasingly busy subject leaders with increasingly tight budgets.
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Do you sound good to listen to? (or ‘fluency: reading’s best-kept secret weapon’)

Published
05 September 2016
Fluency is undergoing somewhat of a revival in England. It has long been the poor relation, the magnolia paint let’s say, of reading; a general stage the ‘typical’ reader will attain when s/he reaches about a quarter past seven years old.
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      • Wellbeing
    • Term Times
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      • Contract services - academies
      • Contract services - maintained schools
  • Early Years
    • Early Years support for schools
    • Early Years PVI services
      • Baby training e-learning
      • Childminder services
      • EYFS e-learning induction programme
      • PVI Essentials consultancy packages
      • PVI multiple provider services
    • PVI and schools training
    • ESSENTIALWRITING for Early Years
    • Supporting Smooth Transitions
      • Transition level of need - schools
      • Transition level of need - childminders
    • Early Years Quality Standards (EYQS)
    • Evaluate the Effectiveness of your Early Years Provision (EEEYP)
    • Safeguarding Audit
    • Keynote speakers and trainers
  • School improvement
    • Reading fluency
      • Year 1 Reading Fluency Project: Foundational Fluency
      • Key Stage 1 (KS1) Reading Fluency Project
      • Key Stage 2 (KS2) Reading Fluency Project
      • Key Stage 3 (KS3) Reading Fluency Project
      • Key Stage 4 (KS4) Reading Fluency Project
      • Collaboration with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)
      • KS2 Reading Fluency Project: Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) funded trial
    • Primary
      • English
      • Maths
      • Assessment
      • Foundation subjects and curriculum design
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      • Science
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      • Secondary school effectiveness
      • English
      • Maths
      • Making Fluent and Flexible Calculators - Education Endowment Fund (EEF) part-funded trial
      • Languages
      • Science
      • GCSE English, maths and science and maths 'A'-level remote revision support
    • Post 16
    • Wellbeing
      • Anti-bullying
      • Behaviour and attitudes to learning
      • Herts Voices
      • HFL Education Wellbeing Quality Mark
      • Online safety
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      • Relationships Education, including RSE, RSHE and PSHE
    • Special Education Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND)
      • SEND support for mainstream schools
      • Eastern Partnership UK (SEND)
    • Special Schools and Educational Support Centres
    • Underserved learners
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      • Headteacher coaching
      • Leadership and management support
      • Small Schools' Programme
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      • School and trust surveys
  • Business services
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    • Financial services
      • Financial services for academies
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      • HFL Finance and MIS Framework
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      • Modern Governor
      • Governors in Hertfordshire
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      • Teach in Herts
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      • Staff absence insurance
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      • Occupational health service and employee assistance programme
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