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Hit the Ground Laughing with Courses and Ideas Designed to Support Your Action Plan.

"The Nitty Gritty" e-newsletter is packed with helpful tips for teachers and pupils, as well as providing a forum for your professional views and creativity.

It is free to subscribe and can be forwarded to every member of your school population. Several schools upload it onto their Learning Platform to broaden their range of revision materials for independent study.

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Calendar of English and Literacy Courses for 2011

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Nitty Gritty Learning in the Heart of Durham City

Our course venues include Durham Cathedral and the Marriott County Hotel in Durham City, both within easy walking distance of Durham's railway station and park and ride bus stops. Lunches here are delicious and included in the course fee. Occasionally, the Nitty Gritty office in Weardale is the preferred location if CPD is being delivered to suit a specific school's needs.

The training is designed to help you fulfi...

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Nitty Gritty Learning - Finalist of Wear Valley and Teesdale Business Awards 2009

Second Left - Lynda Kempsey of Nitty Gritty Learning - Finalist of the Wear Valley & Teesdale Business Awards 2009

Second Left - Lynda Kempsey of Nitty Gritty Learning - Finalist of the Wear Valley & Teesdale Business Awards 2009.

Good News Alert! Pupils Can Achieve 20% of their English Grade in Three Hours!

During recent elearning research in Secondary Schools, Nitty Gritty Learning's Lynda Kempsey found that all students involved left the sessions with 20% of their English grade - in just three hours - with grades exceeding their targets.

Lynda created activities that ensured the students invol...

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Reading for Pleasure: a Signed Book Makes a Unique Gift.

Lynda Kempsey's new novel is now available. Signed copies of "The Puppeteer", a murder mystery set in medieval Durham and Weardale, can be ordered for £9.99 via the RESOURCES SHOP where you can view the book jacket and read a preview before you order.

Alternatively, copies can be purchased from the tourist Information centre in Durham, Bishop Auckland and Stanhope, Durham Cathedral Book Shop, Bradley Burn Farm Shop and Timeless Beauty Salon in Wolsingham, and Woolly Back Knits at the...

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TESTIMONIALS

"Lynda has been a motivational manager and Head of English. Her subject knowledge is first class and she can skilfully adapt to new initiatives or the demands of a changing curriculum.

"Lynda is an outstanding teacher. She displays a great understanding and depth of knowledge of her subject."

Feedback from Jan 9th's training at the Dales' Centre -

"The course was really informative and gave tips and resources which can be implemented easily when teachers return to school...I thought the course was brilliant....inspired me...Brilliant!"

Thank you very much for the training you have done with the English team - they were very positive about the work you did with them and how you have shown practical ways to support teaching the AFs effectively. I will email you soon regarding a follow up session on Key Stage 4...Thank you once again.

Thanks for a fantastic day...there are a number of strategies that I cannot wait to implement and it was great to share good practice with colleagues from a range of schools.

Feb 2010 - Thank you very much for the other day - we have marked what they did and I'm ashamed to say it's the best piece of writing most of that group have ever produced! In one day!!!! Wow!! and it is mostly all B-C!

They loved your sessions and were so chuffed with the end results, they couldn't wait to tell me their grades....excellent motivation for the long hard slog in front of us to the exam!

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