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Free online professional development webinars for educators

Primary Professional Development Webinars

Free online professional development webinars for educators

We have a range of digital webinars to help you continue your professional development online. Watch our free on-demand webinars with experts covering Literacy, Maths, Early Years, Word Gap and Wellbeing. Available via Brainshark, you will receive a personalised CPD certificate after watching each webinar.

Primary webinars


Drs Nancy Walbank and Margaret Carswell	Source to Summit: Lighting the Path - A New Way to Teach Catholic Religious Education	19 November 2024


Dr Michael Maddison	Preparing primary schools for a deep dive in the Foundation subjects	3 March 2023

Lionel Bolton, Sarah Spink	How and why to implement a new curriculum for Primary Science, History or Geography	1 November 2022

Caroline Derby	Empowering Teachers and Learners through Phonics 10 September 2024

Georgina Durrant	Early Reading and SEND 22 May 2024

Tara Dodson and Varsha Siyani	Building a foundation: Early language in Phonics 27 Feb 2024

Dr Elaine Allen and Andrea Quincey	Unlocking the power of fluency to boost reading success 6 Feb 2024

Lindsay Pickton	Building confidence and desire in older struggling readers 14 Nov 2023 The role of levelled books in supporting reading progress and encouraging reading for pleasure 1 Nov 2022

Bennie Kara	Inclusive Readers: Building Global Citizens 5 Oct 2023

Andrea Quincey	DfE reading framework 2023 and what it means for schools 14 Sept 2023 Phonics overview from Oxford University Press 10 Nov 2022

Katie Press, Tara Dodson	How to make the most of Essential Letters and Sounds 8 March 2023 Is Essential Letters and Sounds the right SSP programme for your school? 8 March 2022

Shareen Wilkinson	Closing the vocabulary gap in primary schools 16 June 2020

James Clements	Next steps in teaching reading: building on the foundations of early reading< 19 Sept 2023 Planning the Primary English Curriculum 6 Oct 2020 Thinking about Assessment in Primary English 29 Sept 2020 Blended Learning and the Teaching of Reading 1 July 2020 Supporting Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling (5/5) 19 May 2020 Supporting Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling 19 May 2020 Teaching Writing: Finding a Voice 12 May 2020< Developing Oracy, Spoken Language and Vocabulary 5 May 2020 Teaching Reading: Becoming a Reader and Building a Reading Culture 28 April 2020 Teaching Reading: Decoding, Comprehension and Fluency 21 April 2020

Louise Pennington

Talk for Maths Benchmarks & Stories for Maths
24 September 2024

Join Louise Pennington in conversation with Kathleen McBride and Lydia Davison for this ‘Talk for Maths’ webinar
20 June 2024

How does Numicon support number in KS2
4 Oct 2023

Using Numicon Successfully to support SEND in Primary Schools
28 Feb 2023

Using Manipulatives for mathematical communication (MWS Maths Week Scotland)
4 Oct 2022

Helen Williams	More than just numbers: the importance of spatial reasoning in early years mathematics	26 Jan 2021

Mike Askew	Using Reasoning to Support Fluency and Problem-solving	7 July 2020

Lorraine Petersen	What's new in the world of SEND	1 Nov 2022