The Early Reading Audit is a crucial way to provide the assurance for your school leadership team and governors/trustees regarding the current impact of your early reading provision, and to help identify key areas of improvement.
The day will involve a thorough review of the reading provision for your youngest learners, ensuring that this aligns with Ofsted expectations and the needs of the pupils. Our English adviser will gather information from a range of sources, ensuring that the approach to teaching early reading is inclusive of all (including your SEND readers) and is an engaging and impactful experience for those at the beginning of their reading journey.

• a meeting with the leader(s) of English/phonics in your school
• a learning walk to review the existing classroom practice
• a book/planning trawl
• observation of pupils reading decodable books
• Scheme/Policy review
• Comprehensive feedback through a written report, identifying current provision and possible improvements to be implemented.

This is an opportunity for an expert pair of eyes to review your Early Reading provision, informing future school improvement planning and identifying good practice – so make sure that you book an Early Reading Audit today!

For more information contact us here.

About the Adviser

Emma Mudge - Adviser, Services For Education

Emma has over 20 years of experience working in primary education. Throughout this time, she worked as a leader in a wide variety of areas, and as Assistant Head Teacher, Deputy Head Teacher, and Acting Head Teacher, she has been at the forefront of school leadership and improvement for a significant number of years.  

Emma now works as the Educational Adviser for English and is also a member of the Safeguarding team, sharing her experience and knowledge to continually promote and improve the quality of safeguarding, the standard of teaching and learning in English, and in school improvement overall. Supporting schools with the accuracy of their KS1 and KS2 writing assessments is an important part of her role as she can use her expertise as a member for the moderation team to inform, train and support teachers and school leaders. 

Emma is also part of the team which delivers the Health For Life programme (improving the healthy opportunities for primary aged children) and the NPQSL, where she proudly supports the development of our aspiring leaders in the city.