Jolly Learning

Elizabeth Noweiler is an experienced teacher who provides training in synthetic phonics for beginning readers, for progression in primary school and for children with reading difficulties. Training includes the use of Jolly Phonics, as well as an overview of a range of effective resources for consolidation, progression and special needs. Elizabeth works across the UK and abroad. She has lead a project establishing synthetic phonics in schools in the Caribbean.

**Jolly Phonics training approved for Department for Education match-funding in England**

email:

elizabeth@teachtoread.com

tel:

01635 37120

website:

www.teachtoread.com

travel:

Across UK and Abroad

Which Phonics Ltd is run and owned by Jaz Ampaw-Farr – the original Jolly Phonics Professional Trainer! Jaz has trained extensively on Jolly Phonics and has been an ambassdor training in America, Trinidad and Jamaica as well as the UK. Training begins from a Jolly Phonics foundation and also looks at elements of other synthetic phonics schemes such as Read Write Inc, Thrass, Sounds Write, Sound Discover, That Reading Thing and others.

email:

info@whichphonics.co.uk

tel:

01908 269 990

travel:

London and Home Counties, Europe, USA, Trinidad and Jamaica

Marj Newbury is an experienced full-time teacher, wholly committed to Jolly Phonics. She has a wealth of knowledge of implementing successful phonic teaching in nurseries, reception classes, KS1/KS2 & Special Ed. She regularly speaks at higher education institutions, teacher training universities and conferences in the UK. Marj has worked all over the world, has written many published articles, and has been involved in phonics research. Alongside Jolly Phonics & Jolly Grammar, she also gives training in Jolly Phonics for the Whiteboard and Jolly Music. She is highly regarded as an enthusiastic and effective trainer.

email:

marj@thenewburys.fsnet.co.uk

tel:

07742 636567

travel:

Yorkshire

Carole Walmsley has been using Jolly Phonics for many years and never ceases to be amazed at the rate of learning the children achieve and how much thay all enjoy using the scheme. Carole has used the programme in both large and small schools with equal success.

email:

carole.walmsley1@btinternet.com

tel:

01453 825513

travel:

Gloucester

Natalie Clayton is an experienced foundation stage teacher adn head of early years department in a Lancashire school. Natalie provides training in Jolly Phonics for beginning readers and children with special educational needs. Natalie has used Jolly Phonics successfully for many years in both primary age range children and pre-school children and provides day long training and visits to individual schools. ‘Jolly Phonics embeds the foundations needed for children to become confident readers and writers.’

email:

ntbteach@yahoo.co.uk

tel:

01535 656679

travel:

Lancashire and North West

Ann Foster has been involved with Jolly Phonics for more seven years and was a contributor to the 1998 edition of The Phonics Handbook. Formerly with Durham LEA, she is now an independent Literacy Consultant.

**Jolly Phonics training approved for Department for Education match-funding in England**

email:

fosterliteracy@yahoo.co.uk

tel:

01661 833764

fax:

01661 830826

website:

www.fosterliteracy.co.uk

travel:

North East

Caroline Knowles has been a class teacher, SENCO, Assistant Head and a leading literacy teacher for the Wirral.  She has also worked for a year in Nigeria teacher training.  With Jolly Phonics she has seen children having fun and making rapid progress.  She has also seen the need for teachers and teaching assistants to have a firm understanding so they can be confident and imaginative in using the programme.

email:

carok_uk@yahoo.co.uk

tel:

0151 6448830

mobile:

07856248642

travel:

North West England

Anne McKeefry delivers Jolly Phonics training to teachers, teaching assistants, pupils and parents, throughout Ireland. She caters for all stages of learning; from age three to adult. In her 35 years of teaching, mainly in Foundation Stage, the last eight years were extraordinary as she saw the amazing results achieved through the Jolly Phonics programme and how much the children love it! Anne’s confidence in, and passion for, Jolly Phonics has come from the incredible results she has achieved in the classroom and the continuous positive feedback that she receives. This experience has convinced her that learning to read and write successfully can be, and should be, both enjoyable and easy!

email:

amckeefry@btinternet.com

tel:

02840 650528

Clare Fulton (BEd Hons) is a qualified Nursery (Montessori trained) and Primary teacher, and has worked with children in all stages of primary school, in a variety of mainstream and additional support needs settings. The sole Scottish trainer for Jolly Learning, she has travelled throughout Scotland providing continuing professional development in Jolly Phonics & Jolly Grammar. She first encountered the Jolly Phonics programme in 2002 when working in a school for children with special educational needs and was inspired by its structure and its enjoyable and comprehensive approach to phonics as a means of teaching pupils to read. She has repeatedly seen the growth in confidence and self-esteem of pupils as they have learned to read and write. Clare is also a National Literacy Trust leader.

email:

clareafulton@yahoo.co.uk

tel:

07947 368117

website:

www.teachyourchildtoread.biz

Jolly Phonics is one of the synthetic phonics programmes approved by the Department for Education, for use in schools in England and Wales. Click here for the full list. On the left hand side of that site are the publishers self-assessments, which have also been approved by the Department. The Jolly Grammar Within the Jolly Phonics self-assessment is the teaching and materials of Jolly Grammar, as the two programmes are one complete series.

The Jolly Music Beginners Set has won a Silver Award in the Practical Pre-School 5-7 Awards 2011!

The reviewers said it was: “ A great resource, providing a carefully structured music curriculum through 30 detailed lesson plans. The big book is a great advantage because it helps as a visual aid. The CD is also useful as an aid for non-musician, thought might be fiddly to use for every individual song. Very good progression of material. We particularly liked the puppets to use with the children. Accessible, inclusive and easy to use.”

See our award online here (page 70)

Match-funding is available until March 2013 for all state-funded schools in England with Key Stage 1 pupils, including academies and Free Schools. The Department of Education will not provide funding direct to schools.

Schools can decide which items from the catalogue best meet their requirements, and can make as many individual purchases as they wish, but will only receive match-funding up to a maximum of £3,000, that is, for a total spend of £6,000.

The catalogue contains details of systematic synthetic phonics products and training, with instructions on ordering and on how to access the match-funding. Jolly Phonics products are included in the catalogue.

To access the on-line catalogue produced by ESPO, please click here. Printed copies of the catalogue will be sent to all schools in England.

Schools will only be able to access the match-funding by buying from the catalogue.

For more information about Karen, see The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music website.

The Department for Education recently monitored one of our training events for Match Funding in London; read their report on the training here.

Staff from eight Enfield primary schools in gathered at Oakthorpe Primary School on Friday 19th October for the launch of the Jolly Music pilot scheme, which is being run in collaboration with the Enfield Arts Support Service (EASS). The purpose of the pilot scheme is to raise the achievement of children in the Early Years Foundation Stage and to train their teachers to teach music more effectively, during the pilot and beyond, as well as to raise the profile of Jolly Music.

Oakthorpe is the lead school in the Enfield scheme and teachers there will receive a comprehensive package of training and support over the course of the year. As well as the initial INSET training, the Oakthorpe staff will receive free resources, a further three half-day INSETs, and regular sessions of in-classroom support from Jolly Music co-author David Vinden and editor Theresa Reynolds.

Thanks to the efforts of the EASS, the training sessions have been opened up to other interested teachers in Enfield and on Friday a total of 23 teachers, nursery nurses and music co-ordinators attended the INSET training, which was led by Jolly Music co-author and Kodály music teacher David Vinden. They were joined by Mea Jenkins from EASS and Jolly Music Editor Theresa Reynolds, both of whom are eager to see the impact that high-quality music teaching can make in the early years. Also present were Faten Salah and Nada Hamoud from Learning and Education Development Services, Jeddah, who are planning to introduce Jolly Music training in Saudi Arabia.

The complete list of schools that took part is:

Firs Farm Primary School

Houndsfield Primary School

Keys Meadow Primary School

Latymer All Saints C of E Primary School

Oakthorpe Primary School

St Matthew’s C of E Primary School

St Michael’s C of E Primary School

Tottenhall Infant School

The Jolly Music training sessions are very interactive and, as well as being given a presentation on Jolly Music and the Kodály theories behind it, the staff are all expected to join in with practical demonstrations of games such as ‘Doggie, Doggie’ and ‘Teddy Bear’ (see picture – a tiger had to stand in for the teddy bear puppet!). Taking part in these games not only takes the staff back to their own childhood years in the playground, it also gives them a chance to experience Jolly Music as a student so that they can really appreciate the difference it makes – and also how much fun it is!

By the end of the day the Oakthorpe team were keen to try out the ideas they’d seen in action and were looking forward to their next session, with teachers commenting: ‘Can’t wait to start!’ and ‘Fantastic training – I’ve gained confidence in teaching songs, and knowledge about appropriate songs to use for teaching children a range of musical skills.’

In November David will be visiting Oakthorpe to give in-classroom support and to see how the teachers and students are getting on.

A parallel scheme is taking place at Calverton Primary School in Newham, in association with the Newham Music Trust.

You can view videos of Jolly Music in Action on our YouTube page, and you can download a Jolly Music Teacher’s Guide here.

We will be hosting FREE sessions for Headteachers who want to find out how to extend Jolly Phonics teaching throughout their school. These sessions will include an overview of the programme and information about how it fits with the new draft national curriculum. We will also have our complete range of resources available to view on the day.

Glasgow – Wednesday 12th June 2013

Session Leader: Clare Fulton, Jolly Phonics Professional Trainer
Venue: University of Glasgow, St Andrews Building
Time: 10am – 3pm (registration from 9.30)
Who should attend: Headteachers and key decision makers for Literacy programmes
Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

London – Friday 14th June 2013

Session Leader: Sue Lloyd, Author
Venue: Institute of Education, nr. Russel Square tube station
Time: 10am – 3pm (registration from 9.30)
Who should attend: Headteachers and key decision makers for Literacy programmes
Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

To book a place, please email megan@jollylearning.co.uk with the following details:

• Name and role of delegate(s)
• School Name and Location
• Any dietary requirements

If you would like any more information, please email megan@jollylearning.co.uk.