Targeted support and data analysis for all your ELS Schools. We examine the school’s journey with ELS alongside their Literacy Specialist and provide next steps, recommendation and targeted support including next steps following a data analysis.

The Hub is provided with a report that links to the Challenge Checklist.

These can be in-person or virtual.

Cost: £650 + expenses + VAT

These support calls provide an opportunity to analyse data. In the term preceding the PSC give purposeful next steps to ensure maximum success at the Phonics Screening Check.

These sessions provide targeted next steps and teaching tips to ensure sustained and improvement progress for children within each cohort.

For PSC Support calls we encourage the school’s Reading Leader or SLT to join to ensure that specific needs can be discussed and all advice is suitable for the cohort and school.

Cost: POA - according to the number of schools and number of year groups to be discussed.

These can be booked via our Events page. We welcome English Hub staff to attend. Hubs can also fund places on these days for schools.

Cost: £150 + VAT

How to teach blending from the beginning.

We’ll discuss:

How can we support children to get blending?

What practise should we use outside of the lesson?

What needs to be in place before children can blend?

How can data support us to teach blending?

This session will run twice. By booking your Hub onto the training you can share the link to the training session with all your ELS schools and Literacy Specialists supporting ELS schools.

3:45 - 4:45pm

18th September 2025

14th October 2025

Cost: £65 per Hub

This session focuses on developing children’s fluent reading and a move away from actively decoding and blending.

We look at how to assign texts to support fluency and using ELS Fluency within the classroom.

This session aligns with the latest research into developing reading fluency.

This session will run twice. By booking your Hub onto the training you can share the link to the training session with all your ELS schools and Literacy Specialists supporting ELS schools.

3:45 - 4:45pm

2nd October 2025

10th December 2025

Cost: £65 per Hub

Understand the challenges faced by struggling readers in KS2 and KS3.

How to support their developing confidence alongside promoting language and vocabulary rich disucssions.

This session will explore the use of ELS Progress and the new ELS Progress Apply Books to close phonic knowledge gaps and promote a love of reading.

This session will run twice. By booking your Hub onto the training you can share the link to the training session with all your ELS schools and Literacy Specialists supporting ELS schools.

3:45 - 4:45pm

4th November 2025

8th January 2026

Cost: £65 per Hub

Supporting all children to learn how to read.

This session will support you to determine how and when to adapt the ELS programme. How to use the supportive resources and how to use additional adult support within the classroom to deliver ELS.

This session will run twice. By booking your Hub onto the training you can share the link to the training session with all your ELS schools and Literacy Specialists supporting ELS schools.

3:45 - 4:45pm

1st October 2025

7th January 2026

Cost: £65 per Hub

How to use assessment within the lesson and half termly data to support your children.

Make the strongest start in Reception and ensure that children in Year One and confident readers who can apply all their phonic knowledge.

This session will run twice. By booking your Hub onto the training you can share the link to the training session with all your ELS schools and Literacy Specialists supporting ELS schools.

3:45 - 4:45pm

21st October 2025

11th December 2025

Cost: £65 per Hub