Training
Helen Bromley
Helen Bromley is well known for her high quality training, both nationally and internationally. She works with schools, LEA's and other bodies, and offers a wide range of courses, including tailor-made training to suit the needs of individual institutions.
Her courses are best known for their lively approach to learning, combining stimulating, hands-on activities with opportunities to reflect upon and enhance current practice. She works with educators from all sectors, most particularly those who work with children from 3-8, and those who wish to establish a creative play-based approach to teaching and learning in KS2.
Helen is most easily contactable by email at
Tim Harding
Tim Harding, award-winning author, song-writer and former headteacher, offers training on how to use song to make learning fun and memorable. No musical expertise is required as Tim provides practical ideas that anyone can use and adapt to turn singing into a multisensory, cross-curricular teaching tool.
Drawing on many years of effective practice using learning through song, Tim provides INSET and training to a range of organisations, including regional and national conferences. His training is aimed at Primary and Early Years teachers and practitioners, with an emphasis on literacy and science.
Tim can be contacted by email at tim_harding@hotmail.co.uk
Comment on Tim's training
"Thank you for the fantastic INSET that you led for the cluster of schools... everyone was so enthusiastic, so well done! You gave us some fantastic ideas (some of which have already been used in my Reception class) and gave a real boost to our early years literacy planning."
Tamsin Anderson, EYFS Lead at Chorlton CE Primary School
Julia Damassa
Julia Damassa, the creator of Storyshapes, offers training in the tools and techniques of Storyshaping. Using her experience as a teacher and actress, Julia shares this unique interactive way to spark children’s imagination, create stories together and share them aloud.
The training is ideal for EYFS and KS1 teachers and learning support staff, family learning practitioners, childcare providers and nursery leaders. For more information visit www.storyshapes.com
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Comment on Julia's training
"The training has given me the confidence to encourage children in my care to shape their own stories rather than use books and to extend the stories to incorporate related activities."
"The course enabled me to see that there are other ways of telling stories which involve children in the process."
Feedback from Storyshaping course participants
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