Herts for Learning KS1 Reading Fluency Project

Model 1 (less than 12 schools participating) – £850 per school

Model 2 (hosting/coaching model – ideal for 12-15 school participating) – Total cost £5100

https://www.hfleducation.org/reading-fluency

What is the HfL Reading Project?
This Reading Fluency Project works to significantly improve outcomes for pupils and is designed to help equip teachers to improve fluency and comprehension in a short space of time. This programme is a twice weekly intervention for 6-8 pupils, led by a teacher. Each session lasts 20 minutes and the interventions are taught for 8 weeks. It is designed to be a bridge between phonics and fluency, based on a combination of well-evidenced strategies including:
• modelled expert prosody
• repeated reading
• echo reading
• text marking
• performance reading
• modelled comprehension

KS1 Programme outcomes:
• 18 months progress in reading comprehension age
• 76% of pupils with more than six months of progress
• 66% of pupils move up at least one book band and make 12 months of progress in reading accuracy

The project uses the York Assessment Reading Comprehension for pre and post-intervention screening. York Assessment Reading Comprehension (YARC) is purchased from GL Assessment, who publish the Wellcomm toolkit. The assessment pack is a one-off purchase and currently costs £201. For each assessment you also need to purchase the pupil recording sheets, which are £35 for a pack of 10. There may be scope to purchase the YARC reading assessment pack centrally through the DLP if enough schools participate and scans will then be emailed out.

Model 1 training – most appropriate if less than 12 schools wish to participate or if most schools wish to participate in the Spring/Summer term:
Cost is £850 per school for full training and additional online support meetings. For three members of staff – Reading Lead and two other class teachers (from Year 2 & 3). Additional teaching staff in these year groups can also attend but would not provide child data.

Part 1 – Launch Day (Monday 8th September 2024) with 3 e-learning modules spaced across the day, including how to select appropriate children for the intervention. By the end, staff will know how to teach the first weekly session. Staff then have two weeks to deliver the first session with their pupils. Sessions are recorded and available for two weeks following the session.
Part 2 – The second session of training (usually a twilight session 3pm-5pm) focuses on how to deliver the second weekly session. During the same week that this CPD is delivered, there will also be a bespoke two-hour online meeting with HFL staff and class teachers to discuss the sessions and provide support where required.
Part 3 – HfL will be in contact around week 8 of the intervention to discuss the post assessment and to arrange a final online meeting (again a twilight session from 3-5pm) to discuss the next steps.

Model 2 Hosted training:
A similar model to above. The DLP Team, alongside staff who attended the September 2024 training, would work alongside HfL to deliver the training to additional schools later in the school year.

There would be a Launch Day, which would be led remotely on a mutually agreeable date in the Spring or Summer term 2025. This consists of an e-learning module, which is sent 1 week before the launch and 2 x 90-minute live webinars, which HfL deliver over the course of an afternoon.

The DLP Team, alongside staff who attended the September 2024 training, would receive additional training from HfL. This would involve access to the training powerpoints, learning the key information to train staff on the second reading session and an opportunity to shadow the HfL advisor meetings. This coaching model would allow our Consortium to conduct the early project meeting, the twilight CPD, and the final CPD support to the schools, so that the project is embedded (see part 2 & 3 above). This model would make the project more sustainable as it could be delivered by the same practitioners discretely the following year.

The total cost for this model would be £5100:
£3100 for the Launch Day led by HfL for up to 30 teachers (10 schools). Additional delegates can be added for £75 per person.
£2200 for coaching materials

Cost for an additional 10 schools – £510
Cost for an additional 8 schools – £637.50