English WorkshopS
2024 - 2025 Academic Year
Year 4 Reading workshop - Wednesday 9th October
Writing Workshop Year 4 ~ PowerPoint ~ 09/10/2024
Writing Workshop Year 4 ~ Parental Feedback ~ 09/10/2024
Parents feedback...
"Great ideas about the questions and how to help them."
"Amazing and wonderful workshop it was. A great help from teachers many thanks we appreciate your hard work."
"Thank you for the session was really useful. I really appreciate the time that we get to spend to work together with our children."
"This was my first workshop and it was really good interacting with the teachers and children. Great experience"
"Teachers were great. I felt great learning. Thank you for the workshop as it does help us understand better."
Year 5 Reading workshop - Tuesday 8th October 2024
Writing Workshop Year 5 ~ PowerPoint ~ 08/10/2024
Writing Workshop Year 5 ~ Parental Feedback ~ 08/10/2024
Parents feedback...
"It was a really informative workshop. We for sure with your support be able to help our children at home."
"Great information on helping us with inference and deductive questions. Thank you for all your efforts in making our children learn in different ways."
"Thank you for the helpful workshop. Very informative. The teachers were great!"
"This workshop helped us parents to help and guide our children in reading"
"It was very good explain how to deal with children in study and understand this way"
Year 3 Reading workshop - Tuesday 1st October 2024
Writing Workshop Year 3 ~ PowerPoint ~ 01/10/2024
Writing Workshop Year 3 ~ Parental Feedback ~ 01/10/2024
Parents feedback...
"Very interactive and knowledgeable workshops."
"The session was very helpful. It would be great to have more of these opportunities to be encouraged to support our child’s learning. It is so helpful to go it together with my child."
"Thank you a lot for this support. This workshop really helps us to know how to help our children in their reading. "Thank you teachers!"
"It was very effective in how to help my child read."
"The workshop was great at explaining to us what is expected of the children and how we can support them."
"The workshop was very helpful, learnt lots about how to teach our children to read and answer questions."
2023 - 2024 Academic Year
Year 6 Writing workshop - Tuesday 17th October 2023
Writing Workshop Year 6 ~ PowerPoint ~ 17/10/2023
Writing Workshop Year 6 ~ Parental Feedback ~ 17/10/2023
Parents feedback...
"Thank you so much for this session. It is really helpful for us to help them to study at home"
"Thank you for helping me to do better work with my son at home to help him with his exams"
"Very useful information. This helped me understand what is expected during the exams and how marks will be awarded"
"The workshop has been a wonderful experience of understanding what and how the students are taught and also to know the progress of our child"
"Well prepared, gives a lot of useful information. I enjoyed it very mush. Thank you"
"The reading workshop has helped the children to fall in love with books and reading. Thanks"
"This reading workshop is a very good way to make us parents know how we need to support and help our children"
Year 4 Writing workshop - Thursday 19th October 2023
Writing Workshop Year 4 ~ PowerPoint ~ 19/10/2023
Writing Workshop Year 4 ~ Parental Feedback ~ 19/10/2023
Parents feedback...
"Wow, amazing workshop, nice experience. Fabulous!"
"It’s a great experience and example for the kids and parents. Children are motivated and they learn to use their words instead of repeating book words. Thank you"
"Thank you Mrs Horan and Mr Faley. It was really helpful the way it was described. Lots of information on how to teach the children in this subject and how to complete every day tasks. It was great"
"It was useful to understand better how to help my child to enjoy reading and comprehension. Thanks for the practical exercises"
"Loved the way of teaching and making the children understand and read well"
"Reading workshop is very helpful for my child. I look forward to more workshop for our children. God bless all the teachers"
"I like the workshop because now I know some tips on how to improve my child’s reading"
Year 5 Writing workshop - Wednesday 10th October 2023
Writing Workshop Year 5 ~ PowerPoint ~ 11/10/2023
Writing Workshop Year 5 ~ Parental Feedback ~ 11/10/2023
Parents feedback...
"Thank you so much for a lot of suggestion on how to help my child and understand more."
"This reading workshop was very helpful so that we can understand which ways teachers are teaching and what’s expected from the kids. Thanks"
"The workshop was very helpful. It gives me an idea about what my child needs to learn"
"Excellent workshop. Very interesting to see those statistics. Also, good to show the mark scheme heavily focussed on inference, deduction & retrieval. Thank you so much for the practical tips & reminders of essential reading is. Thank you for all your efforts!"
"It is good to involve parents in such types of workshops, as it gives us the idea as to how they are taught and what we as parents have to do at home. Thank you"
"It was brilliant to have this session and prompt the children nicely with reading skills. It was fantastic!"
"It was amazing. Hats off to the teachers for their hard work and for their advice. It was very helpful. Well done to the teachers"
Year 3 Writing workshop - Wednesday 4th October 2023
Writing Workshop Year 3 ~ PowerPoint ~ 04/10/2023
Writing Workshop Year 3 ~ Parental Feedback ~ 04/10/2023
Parents feedback...
"Thanks miss for inviting us for the workshop, because it was useful for us. Also, we came to know how to ask questions. We got some idea with this class. Once again thanks for supporting our kids"
"The reading workshop is helpful as it helps them to develop the reading skills and understand in more detail"
"Thank you for the support & tips to help teach our kids on not just reading books but going in deep to the context of the story. Specially, retrievals/prediction tips were very useful"
"The workshop was very useful and motivating. Thank you for arranging one. It guided us well to help our children at home to give their best in school"
"This workshop was very useful and gave lots of knowledge about comprehension and how to help the child to read and find the answers within the text"
"Really enjoyed the meeting. It gives us lots of ideas on how to read successfully with our children"
2022 - 2023 Academic Year
Year 3 Writing workshop - Wednesday 8th February 2023
Writing Workshop Year 3 ~ PowerPoint ~ 08/02/2023
Writing Workshop Year 3 ~ Parental Feedback ~ 08/02/2023
Parents feedback...
"The workshop was amazing we are very happy to join more workshops, so that we can know about our children are learning in school"
"Thank you teachers for this workshop. I’ve got good guidance on how to support my child in improving his writing skills"
"Today’s workshop was very helpful and it has given us an idea how to work on their writing. "
"It was nice to know how we can write stories and put them in paragraphs. Thank you for the wonderful effort you made to help us understand the different ways to help our children. Thank you for building their confidence in their writing "
Photographs from our Year 3 writing workshop... (click on the image to enlarge)
Year 6 Reading workshop - Monday 17th October 2022.
Reading Workshop Year 6 ~ PowerPoint ~ 17/10/2022
Reading Workshop Year 6 ~ Parent reading guide ~ 17/10/2022
Reading Workshop Year 6 ~ Parental Feedback ~ 17/10/2022
Parents feedback...
"Very useful workshop to help us prepare the kids for their SATs"
"This was very helpful. Thank you"
"Lots of examples, very helpful"
"The workshop was very knowledgeable and educational. I really enjoyed it with my child"
"The reading workshop has helped us a lot as it has given a lot of basic ideas on how to work on the comprehension. Thank you"
Photographs from our Year 6 reading workshop... (click on the image to enlarge)
Year 3 Reading workshop - Thursday 13th October 2022.
Reading Workshop Year 3 ~ PowerPoint ~ 13/10/2022
Reading Workshop Year 3 ~ Parent reading guide ~ 13/10/2022
Reading Workshop Year 3 ~ Parental Feedback ~ 13/10/2022
Parents feedback...
"Today’s workshop was great! Both teachers were lovely and had lots of knowledge was shared. It was very informative and helpful"
"The workshop was really useful. I learnt how to go about reading with my child. Thank you!"
"The workshop was very educational and knowledgeable. I really enjoyed it with my child."
"A very good session! Fun for the children, lots more of these please!"
"Great session! More workshops like this please! So many good examples and made fun"
"Thank you teachers for the wonderful workshops. Really helpful! We look forward to these workshops each year."
"Thank you for having this workshop for parents and adults. It helps us to help our children in their reading and making them understand."
Photographs from our Year 3 reading workshop... (click on the image to enlarge)
Year 4 Reading workshop - Monday 10th October 2022.
Reading Workshop Year 4 ~ PowerPoint ~ 10/10/2022
Reading Workshop Year 4 ~ Parent reading guide ~ 10/10/2022
Reading Workshop Year 4 ~ Parental Feedback ~ 10/10/2022
Parents feedback...
"This workshop really helped us to know the targets and helped us to work together with them. Thank you so much for your support, it helped us a lot."
"Wonderful workshop! It was helpful to know that it’s important to ask effective questions about the text. Thank you"
"It was a really good reading workshop with the child today, to support my child and encourage home to read fluently, thanks"
"Really excellent workshop. I particularly like how the questions were broken down to different skills. It was a good mix of working with children and teacher example. I really enjoyed it"
"As always, these reading workshops are very helpful. They allow us to know how our children are learning and how we can help encourage them. Thank you for doing these sessions"
"Very informative and helpful workshop. The information was well presented and both teachers were excellent. It was extremely informative. Thank you!"
Photographs from our Year 4 reading workshop... (click on the image to enlarge)
Year 5 Reading workshop - Monday 3rd October 2022.
Reading Workshop Year 5 ~ PowerPoint ~ 03/10/2022
Reading Workshop Year 5 ~ Parent reading guide ~ 03/10/2022
Reading Workshop Year 5 ~ Parental Feedback ~ 03/10/2022
Parents feedback...
"The workshop has been very helpful by giving lots of new ideas in helping with reading different materials and how to support them with their reading at home."
"Reading workshop was very useful and interesting. We as parents got lots of ideas on how to encourage our children in reading and also read books everyday with them"
"It was very helpful and I can improve my child’s reading and understanding"
"It was very informative and also the importance of reading"
"The workshop helped me understand what is expected from the child and from us parents too. I hope we can have a workshop for maths too"
"This workshop helped us to give more ideas for how to support my child and encourage more for reading, understanding and learning. "
"Very informative. Will greatly help us as parents to bring out the best in our children"
Photographs from our Year 5 reading workshop... (click on the image to enlarge)
2021 ~ 2022
Year 3 Reading Workshop - Monday 29th November 2021
Reading Workshop Year 3 ~ PowerPoint ~ 29/11/2021
Reading Workshop Year 3 ~ Question sheet ~ 29/11/2021
Reading Workshop Year 3 ~ Parental Feedback ~ 29/11/2021
Supporting your chid (Year 3) to read at home document
Parents feedback...
"This workshop has been really helpful and full of information. We got to learn about the importance of reading. Thank you!"
"This workshop is really important and parents can learn how important reading is. Thank you!"
"I think this workshop helped me to understand how I can interact with my child while he reads his books every day at home."
"It was a great opportunity to learn and explore new words with my child and teachers, looking forward for more sessions like this."
"I enjoyed the workshop. It was helpful reading and learning/ answering questions alongside my child. It was also helpful knowing what type of questions to ask whilst at home. Thank you!"
"This was very helpful for us both, we opened up a lot more of what we didn’t know! Knowing what questions to ask."
Photographs from our Year 3 reading workshop... (click on the image to enlarge)
Year 5 Reading Workshop - Tuesday 16th November 2021
Reading Workshop Year 5 ~ PowerPoint ~ 16/11/2021
Reading Workshop Year 5 ~ Question sheet ~ 16/11/2021
Reading Workshop Year 5 ~ Parental Feedback ~ 16/11/2021
Supporting your chid (Year 5) to read at home document
Parents feedback...
"Thank you dear teachers for all your hard work in reading and supporting the children in a wider context. Today’s workshop was excellent. It has helped immensely in teaching us parents the importance of reading. Thank you.."
"Great workshop! Thank you! Learnt a lot about summarising, inference, predication etc…. Will definitely read more to be able to ask the questions! Thank you!!"
"The reading workshop was very informative and it really supported my child. The atmosphere was very good, I really enjoyed attending the workshop with my child.!"
Photographs from our Year 5 reading workshop... (click on the image to enlarge)
Year 6 Reading Workshop - Tuesday 9th November 2021
Reading Workshop Year 6 ~ PowerPoint ~ 09/11/2021
Reading Workshop Year 6 ~ Parental Feedback ~ 09/11/2021
Supporting your chid to read at home document
Parents feedback...
"Thank you for seeing us face to face, to speak about supporting our children in preparing for SATs."
"I think it was a very useful session, and gave advice to help improve my child’s understanding."
"Thank you for seeing us face to face, to speak about supporting our children in preparing for SATs."
"It was a great session, which will definitely help us to help our children in a more better way. Thank you!"
Photographs from our Year 6 reading workshop... (click on the image to enlarge it)
2019 ~ 2020
Reading Workshop Year 3 ~ PowerPoint ~ 30/10/19
Reading Workshop Year 3 ~ Parental Feedback ~ 30/10/19
Parents feedback...
"Excellent workshop. Fantastic information and great tips and ideas. Delivered well with fantastic interactive activities."
"This workshop was very good at helping to understand how to start reading and how to help the children."
"I was very happy with the workshop as it gave me a lot of information on how to get my son to read well. It also made a point in telling us how we should get involved with them."
Reading Workshop Year 4 ~ PowerPoint ~ 14/10/19
Reading Workshop Year 4 ~ Parental Feedback ~ 14/10/19
Parents feedback...
"The workshop was good as we get to learn and also how to teach our children. Thanks a lot."
"EXCELLENT WORKSHOP!!"
"Great advice given on how to get the most out of reading time and advance the children’s skills."
Photographs from our Year 4 reading workshop... (click on the image to enlarge it)
Reading Workshop Year 5 ~ PowerPoint ~ 23/09/19
Reading Workshop Year 5 ~ Parental Feedback ~ 23/09/19
Parents feedback...
"The workshop was excellent nice to work with the children and teachers. Thank you!"
"It was very informative. Gave me guidelines on how to practice with my son and support him."
"The workshop was very interesting and helpful to me and I would like to attend more workshops in the future."
Photographs from our Year 5 reading workshop... (click on the image to enlarge it)
Reading Workshop Year 6 ~ PowerPoint ~ 30/09/19
Reading Workshop Year 6 ~ Parental Feedback ~ 30/09/19
Parents feedback...
"Very useful meeting. It enables us parents to understand what is expected from the children and how best we can support them. Please do more of this as we need it!"
"This workshop was really good as it gave me an idea how my child will be going to answer their year 6 test papers. Also how important it is to read every day."
"It was a detailed talk and my child enjoyed it."
Photographs from our Year 6 reading workshop... (click on the image to enlarge it)
