Consultancy
Bespoke consultancy for your setting, delivered in a professional and encouraging manner for effective and immediate impact.
Delivered in-person at your school or at our inspiring training base in Bradford, we provide inspirational consultancy, contextualised to meet the needs of individuals, groups and settings in Foundation Stage, KS1, KS2 and, in regards to literacy, KS3/4.
Whether you work for a trust or academy, whether you are a leader, manager, teacher or other educational practitioner, we can help you help your pupils excel.
What Do Our Consultancy Services Include?
Our highly tailored consultancy offers a professional, approachable and confidential service, with challenging feedback and action planning to ensure immediate and long-term impact.
This includes Audit and Evaluation packages. e.g.
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Audits of whole school themes such as reading and outdoor learning environments
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ECERS audits of the Early Years Provision and Practice
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Practice and provision observations of KS1 maths, Literacy or other subjects and the like
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Individual teacher/practitioner observations
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Classroom design / observations
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Outdoor design
For inspirational consultancy, call us on 07983 157171 or email office@leadingchildren.com
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US
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Tailor made, inspirational consultancy and training, contextualised to meet the needs of individuals, groups and settings in Foundation Stage, KS1, KS2, (and in KS3/4 in regards to literacy)
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Relevant courses on recurring and current issues
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Audit and Evaluation Packages for example; whole-school themes such as reading, outdoor learning environments, The Early Years via ECERS audits and similar, KS1 Maths or individual teachers and classrooms
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Professional, approachable and confidential service
WHO WE HELP
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Local Education Authorities
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LAPs
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Trusts & Academies
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Leaders and Managers
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Foundation Stage, KS1, KS2, KS3/4 Practitioners
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PVI Settings and Childminders
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Parents, Carers, Volunteers
Call us on 01274 710610 or email office@leadingchildren.com to discuss your training or consultancy requirements.
TRAINING – WHAT WE CAN OFFER
Early Years Practitioners
- Quality Interaction
- Small Worlds, Huge Outcomes – using small world scenarios to develop talk throughout the whole curriculum
- Developmental Writing, from scribble to conventional – including how to link phonics effectively to reading and writing
- Creating and repairing patterns – our window into the assessment of deep mathematical thinking
- Using maps to navigate a richer learning journey
- Ensuring quality play and learning outdoors
- Exemplary Practice in early Years
- Examining and assessing the new Early Learning Goals, 2021
- How to set up outstanding provision and train children to use it in an effective and independent way
- A mastery approach to teaching maths in the early years, including the development of essential pre-number concepts
- Block Play – why this is the most important area of provision in any classroom
- Using and applying phonetic knowledge
KS1 Practitioners
- Maths Mastery, including teaching maths in games and outdoors
- Shared Reading, based on the principles of Reciprocal Reading
- Writing for Reason, Purpose and Power
- Developing effective Provision in KS1
- The Creative Science Teacher
- Quality Interaction
- Small Worlds, Huge Outcomes – using small world scenarios to develop talk for writing throughout the curriculum
- Using maps to navigate a richer learning journey
- Great Expectations – Looking at the learning environment, learning culture, learning behaviours and mindset in the classrooms of the most outstanding teachers
KS2 Practitioners
- Developing effective provision in KS2
- Reciprocal Reading
- Hooks into Writing
KS3/4 Practitioners
- Reciprocal Reading
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Meet Our Head Consultant and Trainer
Rachel Jacobs brings 30 years of experience as a former teacher, deputy head, university lecturer, education consultant and mum of 3.
She has a deep understanding of the holistic nature of child development, school curricula, high-quality teaching and developmentally appropriate learning. It is her passion for “making learning irresistible” and supporting hard-working practitioners and parents that drives every aspect of what she does at Leading Children.
You don’t just have to take our word for it!
See what our satisfied clients have to say
“For any colleagues wanting to buy Rachel in, just do it! For Beckfoot Priesthorpe it’s been the best thing we’ve done!”
Diane Long, Deputy Head, Beckfoot Priesthorpe Primary School
“After last night’s training session, the emails were buzzing with positive feedback and ideas from the teachers. Today, I have been at both Brompton-Westerbrook and Byron Primary and both schools are full of excited teachers who have made tweaks to their plans today in order to deliver lessons with a reciprocal reading approach. I think that proves an amazing and instant impact of the training we had; the teaching staff are like excited little children!”
Jon Carthy, HT, Byron Primary School, Chatham, Kent
“Every 5 years or so, you listen to some training that you know is going to transform the way you teach and today was one of those days for me. Thank you — that was brilliant.”
Teacher, Brompton Westbrook Academy, Chatham, Kent
“The course has given the teachers the confidence and tools to help children learn maths in a way that will make them stronger mathematicians and more confident life-long learners. Thank you for the opportunity to learn alongside other schools in the district and for the lovely materials that many children will benefit from for many years.”
Nikki White, Executive Head Teacher
“Rachel has worked with my Foundation Stage over the last year with outstanding results. Her innovative approaches have transformed EYFS into a vibrant child centred learning environment, which has enriched the learning experiences for our children as well as giving staff the confidence to work together with a collective and unified aim.”
Sara Rawnsley, Head Teacher
