Oracy for Better Reading and Writing (R and Y1) (161025)
2025-10-16 15:45 - 16:30 (Europe/London) | Teams
Reading and writing float on a sea of words. Promoting oracy in the classroom will lead to better reading and writing. This course will discuss the importance of teaching active listening skills, how storytelling can promote better reading skills. Additionally, it shows you how to model writing promoting the oracy skills that are embedded in emergent writing.?

Talking to Parents and Caregivers about SLCN (201025)
2025-10-20 08:30 - 09:15
Parents and caregivers play a crucial role in supporting children’s speech, language and communication development. This workshop will provide advice around working with parents to support children to make progress. This workshop includes information around:
– Sharing information between home and school
– Talking to parents and caregivers about concerns
– How parents and caregivers can support their child’s speech, language and communication development
We will also signpost you to useful resources you can use and share with families.

Barrier Games (201025)
2025-10-20 15:45 - 16:30
This workshop will enable you to learn how to use Barrier Games as a Targeted Intervention. Barrier Games can support children to develop their understanding of spoken language (information and instructions) as well as vocabulary, sentence building and social interaction with peers.

Understanding Spoken Language: Information, Instructions and Questions, secondary (211025)
2025-10-21 08:45 - 09:30
Children and young people are required to listen to a huge amount of information, instructions and questions every day in our settings. Children and young people with SLCN can find spoken language more difficult to understand and process. This workshop provides in-class strategies to support you to make your information, instructions and questions as accessible, inclusive and easy to understand and follow as possible. In this session you will learn easy-to-implement in class strategies as well as interventions that support children and young people to develop their understanding.

Running a Targeted Group:vocabulary - Word Detectives and Word Collectors (suitable for upper KS2 and secondary) (211025)
2025-10-21 15:45 - 16:15
This bitesize workshop provides a 30 minute introduction to our Targeted Vocabulary: ‘Word Detectives and Word Collectors’ intervention for Upper KS2 and Secondary pupils. Join this workshop to find out more about the intervention, who would benefit and what it involves. Following the workshop, if you would like to run the intervention in school, an INSPIRE Specialist Teacher can provide plans, resources and modelling to enable educators to run the intervention in school.

Enabling Learning Environments, secondary (221025)
2025-10-22 15:30 - 16:15
This training provides guidance for practitioners around developing an enabling learning environment for all learners. This training workshop was developed by INSPIRE Specialist Teachers across specialisms including SLCN, Autism and Sensory Impairment to enable educators to learn how to make the classroom or setting inclusive for all. Enabling Environment Audit Tools will be provided following the session.

Promoting Oracy in the Primary Classroom, support staff (221025)
2025-10-22 15:45 - 16:30
This workshop includes strategies and guidance on the following areas:
-Meta cognition – teaching and modelling active listening skills
How support staff can encourage and support ‘Think, Pair, Share’
-Communication strategies you can use when supporting children either 1:1 or in a small group.
-How to support children’s sentence construction through modelling.
-Learn strategies to promote children’s thinking using open questioning
-How to support students during collaborative learning activities
-Using vocabulary teaching strategies to support children’s vocabulary acquisition.
-Games/activities that promote active listening/talking for Reception, Key Stage One and Two.
This workshop is suitable for all support staff working with children wither 1:1, in small groups or in a whole class setting.

In-class Strategies for Supporting Learners with SLCN, secondary (231025)
2025-10-23 08:45 - 09:30
This workshop will provide Secondary educators with a brief introduction to speech, language and communication needs in the Secondary age-range and 10 Top Tips for making the classroom inclusive and enabling for young people with speech, language and communication needs.

Sentence Building Teaching Strategies (231025)
2025-10-23 15:45 - 16:30
This workshop provides guidance on using colour-coded approaches to support children with sentence building. Attendees will learn how to use colour-coded sentence building strategies as a Universal approach in the classroom, as well as how to set up a Targeted Sentence Building intervention.

Understanding Spoken Language: Information, Instructions and Questions, primary (031125)
2025-11-03 15:45 - 16:30

Enabling Interactions - for break and lunch times (041125)
2025-11-04 08:30 - 09:15
This workshop is suitable for staff who ae involved in interacting with students during break times – support staff, mealtime supervisors or school caretakers and teachers.

Early Identification, Early Intervention, PVI (041125)
2025-11-04 10:00 - 11:00
This workshop provides an introduction to the JCT’s Early Identification, Early Identification initiative: A comprehensive approach following the assess-plan-do-review cycle to identify and screen children who may have SLCN, plan next steps to support their development and monitor their progress. This workshop is the starting point for schools and settings who would like to engage in this successful initiative. Following this workshop, you will receive a comprehensive package of support including the Speech and Language UK Progression Tools, provided free of charge and ongoing support from a JCT Specialist Teacher. You are welcome to attend this training as a ‘refresher’ if you have previously attended.

Early Identification, Early Intervention, Secondary (041125)
2025-11-04 12:00 - 13:00

Communication for All:Enabling Interactions for Children with Communication Differences in the EYFS/Primary (041125)
2025-11-04 15:45 - 16:45
This workshop focuses on developing positive interactions between practitioners and children with communication differences [including children who are pre-verbal, minimally speaking or predominantly use communication methods other than spoken language]. This workshop provides guidance on strategies for interacting with children through child-led play and throughout the day as well as how to be a supportive communication partner. ‘Any time an adult responds to a child’s message, either verbally or non-verbally, and the child responds back, an interaction has started. And it’s within these early back-and-forth interactions that the foundation for all of a child’s future conversations are built.’ The Hanen Centre

Early Identification, Early Intervention, Primary (refresher course) (051125)
2025-11-05 08:30 - 09:30
This workshop is a refresher course for those who have already attended the JCT’s Early Identification, Early Identification training: a comprehensive approach following the assess-plan-do-review cycle to identify and screen children who may have SLCN, plan next steps to support their development and monitor their progress. This workshop is a refresher for schools and settings who would like to continue to engage in this successful initiative. Following this workshop, you will receive ongoing support from a JCT Specialist Teacher. This is for professionals who have previously attended.

Early Identification, Early Intervention, PVI (051125)
2025-11-05 10:30 - 11:30

Talking to Parents and Caregivers about SLCN (051125)
2025-11-05 15:45 - 16:30

Promoting Oracy in the Primary Classroom, teachers (051125)
2025-11-05 15:45 - 16:30
Why is oracy so important?
Speech, language and communication skills underpin all children’s learning. Learning to, and being able to, read and write is dependent on language and communication skills.
This workshop includes strategies and guidance on the following areas:
-Meta cognition – teaching and modelling active listening skills
-How collaborative learning can help children to improve their communication skills.
-Oracy based activities that help children in their reading and writing
-Universal (whole class) vocabulary teaching strategies.
-Strategies to promote social Interaction and language and communication, such as circle time.
-Games/activities that promote active listening/talking for Reception, Key Stage One and Two.
This workshop is for classroom teachers from Reception to Year 6.

Understanding Spoken Language: Information, Instructions and Questions, primary (061125)
2025-11-06 08:30 - 09:15

Inclusive EAL in the EYFS (071125)
2025-11-07 08:00 - 08:45, 2025-11-07 10:00 - 10:45
Inclusion will allow children to develop their English language proficiency without detracting from their full learning experience and all that the Early Years has to offer. The session will: share strategies/ideas to understand and include EAL children in accessing learning; explore ways to support communication with EAL families; share examples of inclusive resources and toys.

Understanding Echolalia for childminders, parents, carers (101125)
2025-11-10 14:00 - 14:45
Parents/Carers: Learn two different ways in which your child/children may be learning language, learn what echolalia is and identify how you can help a child who is an intonational language learner.

Understanding Spoken Language: Information, Instructions and Questions, secondary (101125)
2025-11-10 15:45 - 16:30

Storytelling and Narrative, Primary (111125)
2025-11-11 08:30 - 09:15
When we think of storytelling, we often think of reading books or writing stories, however, the speech, language and communication skills involved with oral storytelling are crucial. This workshop provides advice and guidance on supporting children with SLCN to develop oral storytelling and narrative skills. You will learn about Universal ‘whole-class’ approaches, as well as how to set up a Targeted ‘Storytelling and Narrative’ intervention group.

Enabling Learning Environments, EYFS (111125)
2025-11-11 15:45 - 16:30

Oracy for Better Reading and Writing (R and Y1) (121125)
2025-11-12 08:30 - 09:15
Reading and writing float on a sea of words. Promoting oracy in the classroom will lead to better reading and writing. This course will discuss the importance of teaching active listening skills, how storytelling can promote better reading skills. Additionally, it shows you how to model writing promoting the oracy skills that are embedded in emergent writing.

Enabling Learning Environments Primary (121125)
2025-11-12 15:45 - 16:30

Promoting Oracy in the Primary Classroom, support staff (121125)
2025-11-12 15:45 - 16:30

Sentence Building Teaching Strategies (131125)
2025-11-13 08:30 - 09:15

Enabling Learning Environments, secondary (131125)
2025-11-13 15:45 - 16:30
