A focus on teaching assistants who are managing intervention programmes to develop listening and speaking, and reading and writing skills.
TAs at Malorees Infants School face a challenge in teaching literacy to their pupils as 61 per cent of the children learn English as an additional language.
Trained TAs at the school manage the intervention programmes Talking Partners and WAVE 3 to reintegrate children into mainstream teaching.
Focusing on teaching assistants and trainee teachers supporting children in and out of KS1 classes, this programme may be useful to the support staff, trainee teachers and managers involved in the delivery of literacy at KS1.
