CPD Events
Upcoming free CPD
Phonics Foundations - Pre Phonics Skills
15th September 2026, 4pm
Suitable for ECTs, Early Years, Year 1 teachers and TAs. Suitable for staff working with EAL or children with SEND. This online webinar will provide you with an overview of phonological and phonemic awareness, sometimes known as Phase 1 phonics or pre-phonics skills. The session will enable you to plan and support learning for children who still require these key skills alongside their phonics lessons.
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Phonics Essentials - Back-to-Basics
17th September 2026, 4pm
Join Kingsnorth and Springhill English Hubs for a back-to-basics guide to teaching phonics in your school. Do you know your phonemes from your graphemes, your digraphs from your trigraphs?
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New Reading Leader training
8th October 2026, 4pm
Fully funded training for NEW Phonics, Reading and English Leads.
Join Sandra and Steph to explore your role as a Reading Leader. In this two-part webinar we will cover action planning, assessment, monitoring and coaching colleagues to improve early reading outcomes.
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Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
10th November 2026, 4pm
Aimed at EYFS/KS1, English and Reading and Phonics Leaders and SENDCO. Join EY Consultant Loren Crisp for a two-part webinar series on Developmental Language Disorder.
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Creating and Embedding Neurodiversity - Affirming Cultures in the Early Years with Cheryl Warren
12th November 2026, 4pm
The webinar will begin with exploring how we can move away from a “what’s wrong” mindset towards one of genuine curiosity and celebration of difference. It’s about shifting from seeing behaviours as problems to seeing them as communication, a child’s way of showing us how they’re experiencing the world. This webinar will be filled with practical strategies, true lived experiences, opportunities for reflection and snippets from Cheryl’s debut book, Neurodiversity in Early Years.
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Talking the Talk - Building Language from Day One
17th November 2026, 2pm & 4pm (Session 1)
24th November 2026, 2pm & 4pm (Session 2)
Aimed at EYFS teachers, Year 1 teachers, SENDCos and TAs. Training over two webinars. The training will look at typical talk, how to develop strategies to develop talk (ShREC), how to create opportunities for talk. Part 2 will focus on vocabulary.
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Sensory Stories: Engaging SEND children in quality story telling
18th January 2027, 4pm
Sensory stories open up the world of quality literature and reading for pleasure to everyone! Built around brain-based theory, sensory stories open up a world of memorable and practical possibilities for all learners.
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Alex Quigley - Sentence by Sentence: securing writing success
19th January 2027, 4pm
Alex Quigley explores the challenge of writing and why sentence-level instruction is so vital. He shares how strong writers are developed sentence by sentence, with a host of practical techniques for teaching sentence construction explicitly, skilfully and with creativity.
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Jon Biddle - Book Talk
21st January 2027, 4pm
Aimed at TA’s, ECT’s, Class Teachers, Reading Leaders and SLT.
Talking about texts and reading is at the heart of good RfP pedagogy. Jon will explain its importance and how it underpins school reading cultures, as well as share strategies for making it part of daily classroom life.
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The magic of outdoor learning for supporting communication, language and literacy
25th January 2027, 4pm
Aimed at EY teachers and TA’s, KS1 teachers and TAs, Forest School Teachers.
In this fully funded webinar participants will explore how outdoor learning environments uniquely benefit children’s communicative skills by encouraging natural conversations, fostering collaborative play, and exposing children to a range of sensory experiences that inspire language use.
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Writing for pleasure
Session 1- 27th January 2027, 1pm-3pm.
The Science of Teaching Primary Writing - the writing map of development
Schools with a solid understanding of this theory are better equipped to make informed decisions when developing their writing curriculum.
Session 2 -3rd February 2027, 1pm to 3pm.
The 14 Principles of Teaching Effective Writing Teaching
These principles all have a solid track record of raising standards and accelerating progress in writing.
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More than a book area – social reading environments
8th February 2027, 4pm
Aimed at English Leads, Reading Leads, ECT’s, teachers, TAs, librarians.
Social reading environments are seen as key to creating richly reciprocal reading communities in the Teachers as Readers research. Physically engaging, the most successful environments tempted children into texts and offered spaces to relax, browse, and read for pleasure. Find out more in this fully funded webinar.
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Supporting multilingual learners with Soofia Amin
8th March 2027, 4pm
Join Soofia Amin (Specialist Lead in Education for Multilingualism) for a fully funded webinar from Kingsnorth English Hub. Soofia is passionate about developing excellent practice for multilingual pupils whilst promoting their first language as a resource in the classroom and wider school.
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Reading fluency: the power of pre-reading
17th March 2027, 4pm
In this webinar Justin Clark, Assistant Hub Lead, Year 6 teacher and English lead at Kingsnorth will talk through the key features of teaching reading fluency and focus in on the power of a pre-read. How this impacts the children who are often at a disadvantage within the reading lesson by familiarising them with the text.
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Talking the Talk - Building Language from Day One
19th April 2027, 2pm & 4pm (Session 1)
26th April 2027, 2pm & 4pm (Session 2)
Aimed at EYFS teachers, Year 1 teachers, SENDCos and TAs. Training over two webinars. The training will look at typical talk, how to develop strategies to develop talk (ShREC), how to create opportunities for talk. Part 2 will focus on vocabulary.
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Phonics Screening Check: top tips
20th April 2027, 4pm
Hosted by Kingsnorth and Springhill English Hubs. This Webinar is aimed at Year 1 teachers and Phonics Leaders who will be administrating the Phonics Screening Check in Summer Term 2.
The session will include administration procedures, access arrangements and support strategies.
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Reader's Theatre
28th April 2027, 4pm
Aimed at KS2 teachers. Justin Clark, Assistant Hub Lead, English Lead and Year 6 teacher at Kingsnorth C of E Primary School for a webinar explaining the power of Reader’s Theatre.
Reader’s Theatre is a widely used teaching strategy that exemplifies how guided oral reading instruction and repeated reading of texts can be used to support pupils to develop reading fluency.
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The language of behaviour
6th May 2027, 4pm
Join Early Education Consultant, author and trainer Tamsin Grimmer for this thought-provoking webinar. Through their behaviour, children are communicating their needs, wants, preferences and views. This session considers why children behave the way they do and suggests we become behaviour detectives to unpick children's behaviour and better understand how to respond sensitively.
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Parents as partners
21st June 2027, 4pm
Aimed at SLT, Reading and Phonics Leaders, EYFS and KS1/2 teachers
Join us for a fully funded webinar considering the following:
- The impact of parental engagement
- The barriers to parental engagement
- Steps to success
- Reflect on current practice in your school
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Who sets the reading agenda?
22nd June 2027, 1pm
Aimed at Year R Teachers and TAs. In Sue Allingham's session she will explore the idea of analysing practice and provision to see how emotionally literate it is and how safe children feel to develop their use of language and phonics.
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Making a strong start in Reception
8th July 2027, 4pm
Aimed at EY leaders, Year R teachers/ECTs and TAs.
Join Kingsnorth English Hub and Springhill English Hub for this free webinar covering the following outcomes:
To be aware of National Expectations, progress, and current guidance.
Understand the expectations for Year R phonics and why we need to implement these.
Provide key information relevant to Year R phonics teaching including pre phonics skills.
Consider current practice and reflect on next steps
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Making a strong start in KS2
15th July 2027, 4pm
Aimed at KS2, ECTS or ECTS+1 Teachers new to KS2, Reading and Phonics Leads.
Join Kingsnorth English Hub and Springhill English Hub for this free webinar.
How can we support our KS2 children who are finding reading challenging?
How do we quickly identify what is holding them back, provide the right support, and keep expectations high?
Join us for a practical session exploring how to make a strong start with pupils who are still learning to read using the alphabetic code.
