More than 115 staff from Primary schools across West Berkshire attending the joint INSET day held at The Downs School on Monday 23rd February.
Workshops for LSAs on “Phonics”,” Snap Maths” and “Structured Reading” were run during the morning whilst teachers attended a session on “Computing for Teachers” run by CPD for Teachers. During the afternoon, secondary teaching staff from The Downs and the primary schools teaching staff attended a joint training session “What is Secondary Ready” with one of the outcomes being a student skills profile defining what being secondary ready meant within the Downland Alliance.
It was a hugely successful and stimulating day. Feedback comments that were made included “My staff were inspired!” whilst another said “It was really useful to be collaborative in the afternoon session!” and also “An excellent informative INSET. More of this, please!”