Inset and In-Service Training

Whether online or in-person, all of our training days will ensure implementation gets off to a flying start with everything you need, including:

• the research and evidence to encourage teachers to reflect on their classroom practice and pedagogy
• practical ideas, activities and resources that teachers can implement immediately
• the inspiration to change practice and maximise impact to improve motivation and achievement for all

With an emphasis on the practicalities of teaching and learning in a primary classroom, delegates describe our training as ‘creative’, ‘fun’ and ‘inspirational’. All courses are based on current research and are designed specifically for Curriculum for Excellence and the Scottish context.

Reflective Reading In-Person Training and In-Service Day with Helen MacKinven

Face-to-face training is available exclusively for Reflective Reading with Helen MacKinven. Please get in touch with Anne on anne@thelearningzoo.co.uk or call 01851 850700 to check availability and reserve your preferred date.

Spend an inspiring, fun and interactive day with Helen learning about Reflective Reading with everything you need to implement the approach immediately. Full day training from £900.

*NEW* DIY In-Service with Online Training

All courses have now been recorded and made available for flexible, online training. Join Anne on our fully featured course platform and access everything you need to run your own in-service training day or twilight sessions via pre-recorded videos and resource links and downloads. Individual schools can purchase a whole-school site licence with lifetime access and full email support. Bespoke support and live consultancy calls on Teams can also be arranged (at extra cost).

• Evidence-based training informed by current literacy research
• Together, all courses fully address The Five Pillars of Reading (Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary and Comprehension)
• Inspiring, thought-provoking but above practical—with everything you need to start implementation immediately
• Includes downloads, printouts, lesson plans, planners, templates and more
• Courses updated and filmed by Anne in 2024 with full email support included
• Whole-school site licence with lifetime access—no subscriptions or renewals required

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Meet the Trainers

Working as a literacy consultant for over thirteen years, Anne has trained over 11,000 teachers in all aspects of literacy across Scotland. She has presented at researchED, The Reading Reform Foundation Conference, various Head Teacher Conferences, and has provided practical workshops and training for SALT (The Scottish Association of Language Teachers), Storlann’s Gaelic Teachers’ Conference, SCIS (The Scottish Council of Independent Schools) and The School Library Association. She was the literacy consultant on 13 BBC Bitesize videos for Second Level Writing, aligned to Curriculum for Excellence.

Anne sits on the Reading Reform Foundation committee and is a founding committee member of IFERI—the International Foundation for Effective Reading Instruction. She is known for her thought-provoking education comment pieces and is the author of fifteen children’s reading books for the Rising Stars Rocket Phonics series and Reflective Reading.

Passionate about reading for pleasure, she is also a publisher of children’s and YA fiction with a Scottish flavour. Anne lives on the Isle of Lewis and shares her office with two guinea pigs called Wilbur and Melba.

@anneglennie

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Helen is a qualified Primary Teacher. She has concentrated on training and development during her career in education and has over thirty years of experience in the design and delivery of training to teachers at a local and national level.

She also writes contemporary Scottish fiction and graduated with merit from Stirling University with an MLitt in Creative Writing in 2012. Her short stories have appeared in several anthologies and literary journals. Helen is the author of two published novels and now delivers creative writing workshops for children and adults.

In 2016, she was a Scottish Book Trust writer-in-residence at Levenmouth Academy in Fife and currently works as a literacy consultant with The Learning Zoo delivering training to teachers in the Reflective Reading programme.

helenmackinven.co.uk
@HelenMacKinven