TRAINING

Teaching Spelling Effectively Using Spelling Shed

Enhance your spelling teaching in your school with our extensive CPD program. Select one of our Standard packages or build your own bespoke package by selecting units tailored to your needs.

Find out more about what is in our training units and build your own bespoke package here.

Standard full day session: £950 + travel expenses + VAT

• Introduction
• Developing Teachers’ Subject Knowledge
• The EdShed Website
• Assessing Spelling Effectively
• Connections in the curriculum
• Application to writing
• Differentiation within the pattern
• Fitting Spelling Shed with your phonics scheme

Standard half day session: £550 + travel expenses + VAT

• Introduction
• Developing Teachers’ Subject Knowledge
• The EdShed Website

Standard twilight sessions (2 x two-hour sessions): £350 + travel expenses + VAT each

• Introduction
• Developing Teachers’ Subject Knowledge
• The EdShed Website
• Assessing Spelling Effectively

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Developing Phonics Practice Using Phonics Shed

Full day session: £950 + travel expenses + VAT

Half day session: £550 + travel expenses + VAT

2 x Twilight sessions: £350 + travel expenses + VAT each

In this session, staff will be introduced to the Phonics Shed teaching sequence from Chapter 1 in Early Years through to Chapter 4c.

• An introduction to the Phonics Shed teaching sequences.
  • Chapter sequence
  • Lesson sequence
• Firm foundations
  • Chapter 1 and the 9 elements
• Colourful characters
  • Chapters 2 and 3
  • Introducing grapheme-phoneme correspondences through the Phonics Shed characters
  • Blending and Segmenting
  • Integrating Phase 4 (Letters and Sounds, 2007) skills across Chapters 2 and 3
• Transitions
  • Chapter 4a, b and c
  • Alternative graphemes and applying phonics knowledge to spelling of longer words

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New to Phonics Training Overview

3 Hour session: £550 + travel expenses + VAT

This training is ideal if your school is new to phonics or just needs a refresher. You do not need to be a Phonics Shed school for this training, as all major schemes and good practice basics will be covered.

In this training, we will explain what phonics is, take a closer look at why phonics is essential to the teaching of early reading and debunk complex phonics terminology. We will look at the skills and strategies used to teach phonics and discover why the order of sounds is so important. We will also look at how you can adapt your school's teaching to the phonics scheme you are using. There will be plenty of time to address any questions you may have about phonics.

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Phonics Shed: Ready, Set, Go!

Included with all purchases of the Phonics Shed SSP. This package consists of two hours of online training which will show schools how to implement the new scheme in their setting.

Phonics Shed trainers will demonstrate the Phonics Shed teaching sequences and introduce staff to each of the chapters and the characters within them.

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Phonics Shed Leaders Training

£150 + VAT per person

Training Dates:

• 9:15-10:45am Wednesday 1st October 2025
• 9:15-10:45am Wednesday 14th January 2026
• 9:15-10:45am Wednesday 22nd April 2026
• 9:15-10:45am Wednesday 1st July 2026

Join EdShed Spelling and Phonics Trainer, Amelia Rimmer, for this online training over four dates to understand how to lead Phonics Shed effectively. You will have lots of opportunities for discussion and engagement with other leaders. You'll gain practical strategies to implement in your teaching and learn how to make a positive impact on both your pupils and your school.

• How to use Phonics Shed to support high quality teaching and learning in your school.
• Helping you to become a subject specialist with subject and curriculum knowledge beyond the standard training.
• Collaboration with other Phonics Shed leaders around the country to share good practice.

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Leading the Way to Successful Spelling

£120 + VAT per person

Training Dates:

Please choose a Part 1 and Part 2 from the selection below.

This online training is designed for English Leaders or Writing Leaders in primary schools to understand how to implement improvements in one of the key transcriptional areas of the English writing curriculum.You do not need to be a Spelling Shed school for this training.

Part 1

• Evaluating current practice in place
• Considering the big questions for curriculum within the context of your setting
• Planning your year as subject leader: how to begin implementing change successfully, including staff development and avoiding common implementation challenges
• What you don’t need to be doing and where you can save staff time and curriculum time

Optional Midway Check-In

Part 2

• Feeling prepared for inspection, what you need to know as a leader and what other staff members need to know
• Case studies of schools that had implementation challenges and how to address them
• Looking back at the year, evaluating what worked
• Preparing for the next stage in your implementation journey

This training package includes a complete presentation designed to help you confidently deliver a training session to other staff members.

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Spelling Unpacked: A Teacher’s Guide to Spelling

£120 + VAT

Join us at one of our exciting in-person events.

You do not need to be a Spelling Shed school for this training.

During this session, we will be delving into the intricacies of spelling, helping you enhance teaching and learning.

This will include:

• Introduction and word knowledge
• What a good spelling lesson looks like
• Assessment and analysis of spelling errors
• Feedback on spelling and strategies to support learners

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