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Don't spend another penny on English or literacy CPD until you have found out about the service Nitty Gritty Learning can offer you. Rather than travelling to a training venue with fingers crossed in the hope that the targets in your current action plan will be addressed, book a free consultation to discuss your specific teaching and learning needs.

Our bespoke training is focused but flexible: you arrange the best time for delivery, whether during an allocated training day; in an after school meeting; during teaching time to devise intervention strategies for targeted groups; or out of school at our venues in the heart of Durham City for day-long courses hosted by well respected practitioners. You can even opt for a combination of all of these with a longer term partnership: this way, Nitty Gritty will work with you to create a strategic pattern of support to bring about school improvement; an agreement which is even more cost and learning effective.

Schools opting for a long term partnership receive "The Nitty Gritty" newsletter free of charge, which can be forwarded to the entire school population. For details about the newsletter go to the News page.

For more information about Lynda Kempsey click on Testimonials and About Us.

Areas where Lynda Kempsey has already helped schools to raise achievement are:

  • The New AQA English Specs - hit the ground laughing in September 2010;
  • A comparison of AQA, OCR and WJEC specs to inform choice;
  • Creating and implementing whole school policy to raise achievement through Literacy and Functional Skills;
  • Planning for pupil progress (including implementation of APPs);
  • Practical and user friendly approaches to assessment for learning;
  • Sustaining the momentum of good practice;
  • Improving reading and writing across the curriculum for all abilities;
  • Creating classroom resources for reluctant readers without dumbing down;
  • Using speaking and listening techniques as a highly effective learning tool and confidence booster;
  • Mentoring of staff new to teaching;
  • Mentoring of staff new to leading departments and of subject leaders looking to take their next step;
  • INSET for teacher trainees in colleges;
  • Making sense of the renewed curriculum to ensure effective planning and implementation from the outset;
  • Raising self-esteem in reluctant learners;
  • Raising the achievement of boys;
  • Matching strategies to particular types of learner;
  • Providing challenges for more able learners;
  • Creating simple but effective home-school reading schemes;
  • Diagnosing what is keeping attainment stagnant in English and addressing this with targeted intervention strategies (for all abilities);
  • Maximising results through knowing the examination assessment criteria.

Nothing there to interest you? Call us and tell us what you need.