DECKCHAIRS ON THE TITANIC: ENERGISING EYFS LITERACY CONFERENCE - 25THJUNE 2024
We invite Early Years Teachers and Senior Leaders to step onboard and set sail with us on our inaugural National Literacy Conference. This will be held on Tuesday 25th June 2024 at Vanquis Banking Group Headquarters, Bradford, Yorkshire.
This one-day conference is open to any Practitioners working in Early Years, Headteachers, SLT or LA Consultants. The focus is on increasing creativity and nurturing the imagination. We are linking this via the Literacy Curriculum into making learning richer and more efficient.
We promise to make it a smooth, comfortable, informative, and fun crossing - without an iceberg in sight!
Conference Schedule
The day will be jam packed with extraordinary speakers, engaging and interactive workshops, and new ideas. We are excited that Hywel Roberts is our Keynote Speaker, and we have other fabulous guests covering interactive workshops on:
Shared Reading Strategies
Working with Parents
Writing Opportunities in Provision - Inside & Outside
Developing talk through Small World Play.
VIP Workshop by Hywel Roberts
Hywel Roberts (Speaker – Writer – Storyteller – Humourist – Educator) will be offering a special
seminar specifically for Head Teachers, Advisory Teachers and SLT on developing a highly creative and imaginative culture in school.
Draft Schedule
9am Coffee, Registration & Workshop Selections
9:20 Welcome
9:30 Opening Remarks - Rachel Jacobs, Leading Children Ltd
10:25 Break - Catch up with your peers over a coffee, visit the Exchange Board and Exhibitors
10:45 Keynote Speaker - Hywel Roberts
12.15 Lunch and stalls and networking - Enjoy lunch, network with your peers, visit the Exchange Board and Exhibitors
1:30 Workshop 1
2:15 Break - Catch up with your peers over a coffee, visit the Exchange
Board and Exhibitors
2:35 Workshop 2
3:20 Announcement - Small World: Huge Outcomes Book
3:40 Close
Opportunity to stay longer to relax with a drink and network with delegates or speak to the contributors
As a Conference Delegate, you will get:
Effective Professional Development
Inspiring Keynotes
Choice of 2 x 45 minute workshops
Fabulous Lunch and Refreshments
Goodie Bag including Small World items to use in the classroom
Rachel’s New Book on Developing Literacy through Small World Play (1 FREE copy per school)
Countless ideas, practical tips and tools, including a Reading List and Parent Workshop Notes
Lots of interaction and collaboration time with like-minded people
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FREE Goodie Bag
Your Goodie Bag will include lots of Small World items to take back with you to use in the classroom
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WIN a Spa Day for 2
Chance to win a Spa Day
with Three Treatments for Two people at a Bannatyne Health Club local to you -
Great Food & Chat
Vanquis' Chefs will provide a fabulous lunch and there will be free time allocated to chat with like-minded people
Meet the Crew
Rachel Jacobs - Education Consultant and co-founder of Leading Children Ltd
Hywel Roberts - Renowned Travelling Teacher, Writer, Humourist and Storyteller
Jennifer McArdle - Assistant Head / EYFS Lead, St Oswald's C of E Primary Academy, Bradford
Claire Goulding - KS1 Teacher, Bramley Sunnyside Infants and Nursery School, Rotherham
Lucy Barnes - Assistant Headteacher, Dixons Allerton Academy, Bradford
Have you seen Hywel Roberts in action?
He is “….a world leader in enthusiasm…”
Originally a teacher, Hywel contributes to the national conversation around learning and thinking at all levels and is a very highly regarded teller of stories and a raconteur. He is also a well- respected author and contributes regularly to a
variety of publications.
He is an incredibly witty and entertaining speaker, and we are delighted that he can join us.
Why is it called Deckchairs on the Titanic?
We all know the true story of the world's most famous ship that tragically struck an iceberg in the cold Atlantic Ocean.
The phrase “rearranging deckchairs on the titanic” derives from this story. It is
often used to describe someone who undertakes a futile action in the face of an impending catastrophe.
Marrying this phrase with the teaching of literacy might sound overly dramatic, but it could be said that we are sometimes only making well-meaning but negligible adjustments to the teaching of literacy, instead of addressing the larger, more important issues at hand.
Join us to discuss creative approaches that can be used to steer our children away from danger and create a nation of avid readers, prolific writers, imaginative story-makers, poets and copywriters.
