Maddy’s humor and delivery style make staff meetings come to life and engages everyone.

Use of high-quality texts for all year groups observed. A small number of well- planned questions to develop an understanding of the text. This model can easily work for any group size and the whole class. Good range of questions and tips on how children can best answer them. I thought the sessions were excellent and the children were engaged and interested throughout. An expert on all things English.

Maddie’s approach to guided reading is manageable for the class teacher yet totally engaging, confident building, and challenging for the children. She introduced us to lots of new texts to use in our sessions rather than a scheme. I liked that we can use the same text with all of the children.

It would be great to have Maddie deliver a session for our parents.