School Improvement

Would you like your teachers and teaching assistants to be trained to deliver high quality structured interventions?

"In order to support pupils who have fallen behind furthest, structured interventions, which may also be delivered one to one or in small groups, are likely to be necessary " EEF 2020

We train teachers and teaching assistants to deliver accredited interventions to children who are experiencing difficulties with reading, writing or numeracy, supporting them to catch up with their peers. All our Every Child Counts intervention programmes are evidence-based and support children to make accelerated progress to catch-up with their peers.

If you would like any further information about any of these programmes, please get in touch with [email protected].

Primary English Intervention Programmes

1stClass@Writing Dragon Hunters

1stClass@Writing: Dragon Hunters trains a teaching assistant to successfully implement an evidence-based writing intervention programme to children in Key Stage 2. The intervention programme comes ready-made with detailed lesson plans and extensive resources.

Provides targeted use of the Pupil Premium/Catch-Up Funding
Supports the new national curriculum for English
Makes children eager to write
Balances the development of transcription, grammar and composition
Strengthens teaching assistants’ subject knowledge and wider effectiveness

To find out more information and to book your place on our upcoming course, click the link below.

1stClass@Writing Pirate Writing Crew

1stClass@Writing: Pirate Writing Crew trains a teaching assistant to successfully implement an evidence-based writing intervention programme to children in lower Key Stage 2. The intervention programme comes ready-made with detailed lesson plans and extensive resources.

Provides targeted use of the Pupil Premium/Catch-Up Funding
Supports the new national curriculum for English
Makes children eager to write
Balances the development of transcription, grammar and composition
Strengthens teaching assistants’ subject knowledge and wider effectiveness

To find out more information and to book your place on our upcoming course, click the link below.

Project X CODE

Project X CODE embeds Systematic Synthetic Phonics into a Reading Intervention Programme targeted at struggling readers in Years 2 to 4. Project X CODE is a highly motivated series of 3D adventure books, based on structured progression of Phonics, Vocabulary and Comprehension skills.

How Project X CODE works:

The Books

A gripping series of adventure books
Build reading skills & motivation
90% decodable texts in each book
Progression of systematic synthetic phonics, vocabulary and comprehension skills
Flexible entry and exit points

The Sessions

Delivered by a trained teaching assistant
Supported by a school Link Teacher
Up to 4 children in a group
30 minutes, 4 times a week
In addition to daily literacy lessons
Sessions based on the books
Detailed session notes

Project X CODE is delivered to individual schools across two full days. Please get in touch with Margie Harrison to find out more and to book the programme - [email protected]

Primary Maths Intervention Programmes

1stClass@Number 1

1stClass@Number 1 is included on the list of ‘Promising Projects’ by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF). A teaching assistant and a link teacher are trained together to successfully implement an evidence-based maths intervention programme to children in Key Stage 1. The intervention programme comes ready-made with detailed lesson plans and extensive resources.

Why attend

To develop the mathematical subject knowledge of both teachers and teaching assistants
To provide targeted use of the Pupil Premium
To support the mastery approach in the National Curriculum for Mathematics
To raise standards and ensure progress - children make an average Number Age gain of 12 months in only 3.5 months - over 3 times the expected progress
To promote positive attitudes to maths - 93% of children showed more confidence and interest in learning mathematics in class after 1stClass@Number

What will it cover

Engaging assessment activities
Subject knowledge sessions to develop effective pedagogy for teaching number and early calculation
Opportunities for teaching assistants to share practice in a supportive learning community
Access to ECC website for online resources and data analysis

1stClass@Number 2

1stClass@Number 2 trains a teaching assistant and a link teacher to successfully implement an evidence-based maths intervention programme to children in lower Key Stage 2. The intervention programme comes ready-made with detailed lesson plans and extensive resources.

Why attend

To develop the mathematical subject knowledge of both teachers and teaching assistants
To provide targeted use of the Pupil Premium
To support the mastery approach in the National Curriculum for Mathematics
To raise standards and ensure progress - children make an average Number Age gain of 12 months in only 3.5 months - over 3 times the expected progress
To promote positive attitudes to maths - 93% of children showed more confidence and interest in learning mathematics in class after 1stClass@Number

What will it cover

Engaging assessment activities
Subject knowledge sessions to develop effective pedagogy for teaching number and early calculation
Opportunities for teaching assistants to share practice in a supportive learning community
Access to ECC website for online resources and data analysis

Success@Arithmetic: Number Sense

Success@Arithmetic:Number Sense trains a lead teacher and a teaching assistant together to successfully implement an evidence-based maths intervention programme to children in Years 3-5.

Why attend

To develop the mathematical subject knowledge of both teachers and teaching assistants
To provide targeted use of the Pupil Premium
To support the mastery approach in the National Curriculum for Mathematics
To raise standards and ensure progress – children made an average Number Age gain of 17.5 months in 4.5 months on the programme, almost 4 times the expected progress
To promote mathematical thinking and understanding of the number system through carefully staged progression
To promote positive attitudes to maths

What will it cover

Detailed diagnostic assessments
Subject knowledge sessions to develop effective pedagogy for teaching place value and securing number facts
Opportunities for teaching assistants to share practice in a supportive learning community
Access to ECC website for online resources and data analysis

Becoming1stClass@Number

Becoming 1stClass@Number is the newest addition to our highly successful 1stClass@Number family of intervention programme and has been designed to support children in Year 1 who have not yet achieved the Early Learning Goal for Number.
Becoming 1stClassNumber:

Offers children a rich and varied learning experience
Lessons are engaging, active and fun and include a wide range of games and practical activities
Aims to promote a solid basis and effective learning opportunity for all children to succeed in mathematics

Why attend

To develop subject knowledge
To support children to make accelerated progress
To provide targeted use of Pupil Premium
To supports the mastery approach to teaching mathematics

What will it cover
The mathematics teaching and learning in Becoming 1stClass@Number has been carefully structured to develop and deepen children’s number sense in relation to numbers to 20.

Success@Arithmetic: Calculation

Success@Arithmetic:Calculation trains a lead teacher and a teaching assistant together to successfully implement an evidence-based maths intervention programme to children in Years 5-8.

Why attend

To develop the mathematical subject knowledge of both teachers and teaching assistants
To provide targeted use of the Pupil Premium
To support the mastery approach in the National Curriculum for Mathematics
To raise standards and ensure progress – children made an average Number Age gain of 17.5 months in 4.5 months on the programme, almost 4 times the expected progress
To promote mathematical thinking and understanding of the four operations through carefully staged progression
To promote positive attitudes to maths

What will it cover

Detailed diagnostic assessments
Subject knowledge sessions to develop effective pedagogy for teaching conceptual understanding and procedural fluency of the four operations
Opportunities for teaching assistants to share practice in a supportive learning community
Access to ECC website for online resources and data analysis

Intervention Programmes for Catch-Up

What We Offer

Primary English Intervention Programmes

1stClass@Writing Dragon Hunters

1stClass@Writing Pirate Writing Crew

Project X CODE

Primary Maths Intervention Programmes

1stClass@Number 1

1stClass@Number 2

Success@Arithmetic: Number Sense

Becoming1stClass@Number

Success@Arithmetic: Calculation