Join Us for a Special World Environment Day Event! 🌍🌱

We’re excited to announce a brand-new collaboration between Literacy Counts and Let's Grow, bringing an engaging and FREE online event to schools on 5th June 2025. Expect a fun, interactive session that celebrates the environment, sustainability, and a love of learning—perfect for inspiring young minds!

Audience: Headteachers, SLT & English Subject Leads
Venue: Mill View Primary School, Chester, CH2 1HB
Price: FREE

Would you like to see how Literacy Counts’ award-winning resources have impacted on standards in spoken language, reading and writing? Come along to our showcase to find out more.

Audience: English Subject Leaders and SLT
Venue: Zoom
Summer: 22/05/25 09:15am - 12:00pm Price: £60pp

• These online sessions are intended to strengthen subject leadership and delegates will have the opportunity to engage in professional dialogue with colleagues.

• Information about current literacy developments, approaches, guidance and thinking will be shared.

Join us for a 30-minute free webinar on Tuesday 20th May at 3:45pm!

Jo, one of our expert consultants, will guide you through our Ready Steady Write PLUS+ Shakespeare Units and how to maximise their impact in your classroom.

Are you confident in assessing literacy against the EYFS Early Learning Goals? This course explores the EYFS Profile, identifies barriers to progress, and provides practical strategies for developing oracy, reading, and writing, ensuring a smooth transition into Year 1.

Audience: Phonics Leads, SLT, English Leads
Venue: Zoom
Price: FREE

Find your phonics solution:

• Introduction to Ready Steady Phonics

• How it would look in your school

• FREE sample access to the resource

• Q&A session with our expert consultant

Join us for a free 30-minute webinar where Gareth will introduce our new Wellbeing Units—a valuable addition to Ready Steady Write PLUS+. Designed to support Mental Health Month in May, these units provide engaging, high-quality teaching sequences that help children explore emotional literacy, resilience, and self-regulation through rich literature.

Audience: Class teachers, ECTs, TAs, ESLs, SLT and Headteachers.
Venue: Zoom
Price: FREE

This FREE webinar is open to all schools who wish to have a deeper understanding of how Ready Steady Write is a solution for mixed-age classes.

Join us for an engaging and informative event to learn about the Everybody Write: 2-Year Writing Impact Project for WPAT, Warrington and surrounding schools.
This session will delve into the project’s sustainable approach to raising writing standards across schools. Gain insights into the comprehensive professional development, award-winning resources, and tailored support that make this project a success.

Audience: Class Teachers, English Subject Leads, SLT, Headteachers & governors.
Venue: Zoom
Price: FREE

• Are you looking to develop staff subject knowledge around year group expectations, what speaking and listening teaching looks like in the classroom and the scaffolds to support

• Do you want to develop a clear progression for spoken language from EYFS to Y6?

• Are you looking to develop planned opportunities for oracy to support reading and writing across your school?

Audience: English Subject Leaders, Reading Leads, Phonics leads and SLT
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp

In this professional development course delegates will have the opportunity to carefully consider the quality of the intent, implementation and impact of their schools’ reading curriculums.

Audience: Teachers, TAs, English Subject Leaders, SLT, Heads of department & English Teachers
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp

• Do you have children who are struggling with word reading? 

• Is progression and pace difficult to secure for some of your children?

Audience: English Subject Leaders, reading leads, SLT, Heads of Department, English Teachers, Librarians
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp

• Do your pupils have mixed attitudes towards reading?

• Are you keen to develop long lasting reading habits for your learners in KS2 and beyond?

Audience: Year 6 Teachers and Teaching Assistants
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60 pp

• This professional development opportunity will provide details of the expectations for teachers that are new to Year 6.

Audience: SLT & English Subject Leads
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60pp

• Are you a Primary school looking to further consider spoken language in your English curriculum?

• Do you want to develop the teaching of conventions of spoken language to enable your pupils to speak well in a range of contexts?

Audience: Year 2 Teachers and Teaching Assistants
Venue: Zoom
Price: £60 pp

This professional development opportunity will provide details of the expectations for teachers that are new to Year 2.

With the Award Winning Picture News & Literacy Counts
FREE: Ready Steady Write OLYMPIC Units of Work
FREE: Picture News OLYMPIC ASSEMBLY PACKS

Find your Oracy Solution

Audience: Headteachers, SLT, English Subject Leads, Curriculum Leads & Teachers who deliver assemblies.

Everybody Write: 2 Year Writing Impact Project
We are inviting Headteachers, SLT & English Subject Leads (3 delegates welcome per school) from the surrounding area to meet at Banks Road Primary School to find out more about this project.

With the Award Winning Picture News & Literacy Counts
FREE: Ready Steady Write OLYMPIC Units
FREE: Picture News OLYMPIC ASSEMBLY PACKS

Find your Oracy Solution

Audience: Headteachers, SLT, English Subject Leads, Curriculum Leads & Teachers who deliver assemblies.

Everybody Write: 2 Year Writing Impact Project
We are inviting Headteachers, SLT & English Subject Leads (3 delegates welcome per school) from the surrounding area to meet at Barnton Primary School to find out more about this project.

Audience: English Subject Leaders, Reading Leads, Phonics leads, SLT
Venue: Zoom
Price: £50 for remaining Summer session
Subject leaders will have an increased awareness of guidance and can use this to inform actions and priorities to improve standards in the subject across the school.

Audience: English Subject Leaders and SLT
Venue: Zoom
Price: FREE
Find out more about Ready Steady Write PLUS+, with even more exciting units including: Olympics (EYFS-Yr6), Shakespeare (Yr3-Yr6) and Science (EYFS-Yr6).