How we help

Our work is bespoke and takes the form of consultancy, coaching, leader development and INSET.

We support schools, federations, Teaching School Alliances and Multi-Academy Trusts.

The menu below lists the areas on which we have been asked to lead recently. We offer on-going sequences of work across a term or more, as appropriate.

Lindsay & Christine
Christine Chen & Lindsay Pickton

Consulting/ Advising Examples (day, half-day, after school)*

  • Creating a Culture of Reading
  • Fluency in reading and writing 
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Vocabulary Acquisition
  • Curriculum development
  • Coaching teachers, team-leaders, middle and senior-leaders
  • Subject-leader support and development 
  • English action-planning
  • Monitoring English and the wider curriculum, e.g. joint-observations and learning walks
  • Developing policies, whole school pedagogy, knowledge and skills-progression
  • Writing analysis and moderation
  • English planning support and team-teaching
  • Analysing “stuck” and slow-progress readers/writers, and planning support
  • Small-group English subject knowledge development
  • Planning provision for ‘greater depth’ reading and writing
  • Reading-focussed workshops for parents

A-Z CPD (series of days, whole day, half-day, twilight or extended twilight)*

  • Creating a Culture of Reading
  • Teaching Comprehension – whole class and guided
  • Teaching Writing
  • Shared Writing
  • Writing at Greater Depth
  • Growing Greater Depth Readers
  • Challenging Children’s Thinking
  • Drama for better comprehension and composition
  • Effective leadership (subject-, phase-, middle- and senior-leaders)
  • Effective questioning
  • Developing Oracy and Vocabulary
  • Whole school teaching of spelling
  • Grammar subject knowledge and pedagogy
  • Group discussion and collaborative learning
  • Increasing enjoyment in reading
  • English curriculum planning (cross-curricular or otherwise)
  • Parents’ mornings, afternoons and evenings on reading/writing/spelling…
  • TA training
  • Teaching poetry
  • Authentic Team Leadership
  • Coaching for Performance
  • Effective Leadership
  • High Performing Teams

*Fees upon enquiry

Cancellation Policy

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