I just wanted to feedback the impact of your literacy session with our SEND team. The strategies you gave us have been so impactful. Through echo reading, a student this week laughed whilst reading a story book. For the first time, he understood that reading can be funny. Another student through choral reading has finished his first book – he had that feeling of satisfaction but also loss that the moment of reading was over.

 

So often it’s the very, very small steps of progress that give us joy – but these are incredible! As a team we’ve been so pleased to have additional ideas to use – and I just wanted to say thank you.

Thank you, always very insightful!

So useful and helpful for future planning.

I loved the INSET day so much! Thank you for your amazing hard work - I always learn so much when you come in.

The session was so informative and supportive. I really appreciate being part of such a collaborative team and look forward to continuing to share resources together.

The most useful task for my role was going through how to write Literacy Actions Plans. This will be my responsibility soon and now seems like a more manageable task. 

Thanks, again, Jane for a very useful session! It's a pleasure working with you and always completely relevant and practical.

I just wanted to thank you for the training you delivered last week. Your personal passion was so engaging and the ideas that you shared with the staff team were being used the following day. You tailored the training wonderfully to our school needs.

Thank you so much for your brilliant staff meeting on reading into writing. The impact you have had on staff is immediate - I didn't walk past a teacher yesterday without a mention of how much they have taken either from the planning or staff session. I'll be in touch to discuss next steps, once the recent CPD is embedded.

Thank you very much for working with our year groups to develop reading into writing across the school. The support that you have given to our teachers is so valuable. All teachers come away from the planning sessions buzzing with ideas and feeling confident to deliver high quality provision.

'Wow! What an inspirational day, with so many practical ideas to take into the classroom. I loved the emphasis on 'purpose' of writing.'

'A really interactive session - great resources.'

'Fantastic text ideas and grammar and spelling actitvities.'

'Brilliant ideas for developing a reading climate.'

'Every aspect was very useful - fantastic input on all areas of English.'

The training on writing really was first class and inspiring as always - thank you very much; I look forward to seeing the staff put your ideas into practice.

Thank you very, very much for your valuable contributions to our literacy across the curriculum day. You are an absolute mine of expertise and information and we so value everything you do with us; I've never had a session with you I didn't enjoy and there have been quite a few now! All of your sessions were exactly what we had wanted and were really very well received. I shall certainly recommend them as great CPD to other secondary schools.

I attended your course on Engaging Boys and I just wanted to say how great it was and how I am already beginning to think of how I can incorporate the amazing strategies you spoke about. I loved the ideas for children's narrative writing and all the great stimuli you used.

Thank you for the session you ran with Year 11. The resources and planning were exceptional and the students responded very well. This is a difficult time of year for students and teachers, so your input was particularly important in encouraging a group of bright students to achieve more highly in English Literature.

Jane’s spelling workshop was one of those ‘lightbulb’ moments for me. As an experienced teacher, and one who has never had any trouble spelling, prior to the training I had limited strategies to offer pupils who were struggling. However, the strategies that Jane taught us suddenly enabled me to support so many other pupils. Once I’d passed this on to the pupils, they quickly took on the responsibility for their own learning and started to find strategies of their own. Dare I say, they even enjoyed it! Thank you Jane, spelling lessons will be a lot more enjoyable in future!

Fabulous integrated English training! Useful ways in that will engage the children in grammar. Thank you.

We have used Jane Branson's support in a range of ways: with children, staff, at INSET days, for lesson study and twilights, to introduce the Reading Toolkit, develop staff skills in GPaS, and to link writing to high quality texts. Jane has always been very well-prepared and we have found that our standards have improved as a result of her input which always has clarity and is highly practical. The lesson study sessions were particularly powerful involving staff from different age ranges in planning a lesson together with Jane and then co-delivering with her the next day. A well-organised and inspirational consultant.

Thank you for your kind support and input. We both knew exactly what you were saying and felt we knew all of this... but somewhere along the way, we have lost those skills due to the demands placed upon us. We are so very grateful to you for sharing your passion and enthusiasm with us. It was infectious! As a result, tomorrow's planned lesson has incorporated many of your inference strategies and we will be looking to incorporate many of your ideas in the coming term.

We benefitted greatly from Jane's support and guidance over a two year period. We focused on an Integrated English approach and through Jane's clear direction, staff are now able to recognise opportunities to combine both reading and writing based around a class text. The improved impact on quality of teaching and learning is visible as children respond enthusiastically. The additional bonus has been the ongoing "drop-in surgery" approach, giving staff opportunity for ongoing mentoring as they gain confidence with a new way of working.

Everyone went away from the day with something to use straight away in class. Children were at the heart of the learning, given ownership at all stages. Great!

The most inspiring staff meeting I've ever been to!

Jane's reading course is brilliant. It made me change my teaching of reading - and encourage others to do the same. Lots of ideas to try - and the reasons why as well.

Lots of practical examples, great ideas for use in the classroom - THANK YOU!