Maximising the Impact of your TAs (Primary Phase) – new for 26/27!
Deployment of Teaching Assistants has fundamentally shifted, today, school leaders need TAs delivering high-impact, evidence-based targeted support.
This asynchronous course is built to tackle this challenge head-on. It upskills your entire TA team flexibly, shifting practice toward promoting pupil independence and driving measurable progress.
Course Highlights:
Flexible & Online: 8 modules (25–50 mins each) for individual study or group INSET, complete with quizzes and resources.
Core Curriculum: Roles & Responsibilities, Behaviour, ‘Least Help First’, 1:1 Reading, Handwriting, Sentence Construction, CPA in Maths, and Maths Fluency.
Certified & Tracked: TAs receive official CPD certificates, and leaders get progress reports.
Affordable: Discounts available for MATs, LAs, and school clusters.
How do we take part?
- Whole school access – all your TAs can access the course
- Use the training to suit you, either in groups or individually
- Online access anytime
- VNET Certificate issued on completion of all modules
- The member price is £350+VAT per school for a year
- Non-member price is £475+VAT per school for a year
Modules:
Session 1: Roles and Responsibilities of Teaching Assistants
Objective: To develop an understanding of the wider roles and responsibilities of teaching assistants in the classroom, with a particular focus on supporting pupils with additional needs.
Session 2: Effective Behaviour Management
Objective: To understand how consistency and the use of clear, relentless routines positively impact behaviour management in the classroom.
Session 3: Supporting Teaching and Learning towards Independence
Objective: To understand how to use the EEF’s Scaffolding Framework to shift their default approach from task completion to building genuine, lasting pupil independence — starting always with the least amount of support first.
Session 4: Supporting 1:1 Readers
Objective: To develop TAs’ confidence and skill in supporting 1:1 reading sessions by using effective questioning, promoting reading fluency, and applying appropriate phonics strategies to help pupils become more capable and independent readers.
Session 5: Supporting Handwriting
Objective: To equip TAs with the knowledge and practical strategies to support pupils’ handwriting development, including modelling correct letter formation, establishing effective ready-to-write routines, and applying best practice to help pupils build confidence, control, and consistency in their writing.
Session 6: Supporting Sentences
Objective: To build TAs’ confidence in supporting pupils with sentence construction, from securing understanding of single clause sentences and accurate full stop use, to exploring practical strategies that help pupils combine clauses to write with greater complexity and control.
Session 7: Supporting Maths with CPA
Objective: To build confidence in using the CPA (Concrete, Pictorial, Abstract) approach,
including manipulatives and visual representations, when supporting pupils in maths
lessons.
Session 8: Supporting Fluency in Maths
Objective: To develop an understanding of how to effectively support pupils’ fluency and reasoning skills within maths lessons.
Instructors:
Ruth McGlone
Ruth has 15 years of working in Norfolk Schools and just under 10 years as a Headteacher, leading a school through some challenging circumstances. As a Headteacher who has led a school through Covid-19 she is very well placed to appreciate the pressures on TAs today.
Ruth has worked as a System Leader as part of the Sheringham Teaching School Alliance and has been active in supporting the development of Mastery Mathematics in West Norfolk alongside the Cambridge Maths Hub.
Emma Adcock
Emma has just under twenty years of experience in the education sector, ten years of which she has spent working as an English Consultant for Norfolk Schools. She is a former head teacher, system leader and advanced skills teacher. She regularly provides additional leadership capacity for schools. This additional leadership has previously included: acting head positions, part-time assistant head roles and she has worked across schools as a teaching and learning coach to support Quality First Teaching. Emma is also an experienced trainer who regularly provides training for VNET schools on the following: curriculum design, subject leadership, Reading, Writing, Spelling and the explicit teaching of vocabulary.
We can run this series for your school or across your MAT or Teaching Hub.
Please contact us to find out how!
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