Conference feedback

Here is some of the feedback from delegates who have attended conferences at the Newsroom

Reading for Pleasure - The importance of Poetry, Wednesday 2 July, 2008
Great balance - liked the media style interviews/workshops and lecture combination.
Day went far too quickly.
Fantastically organised with a great hospitality and ambience.
I enjoyed this day thoroughly
Excellent, stimulating and brain ache - five stars!
The food was wonderful and the speakers 'inspirational'
Brilliantly organised - So thoughtfully planned
I hope to take the passion and ideas within the day back with me to the classroom.
An excellent day - well done.
Good balance to the day - workshop was lively and varied
A really excellent and stimulating day.

"Raising Achievement through Podcasting" - 25 April, 2008
Very inspiring - effective use of technology.
Excellent range of speakers. Lots of ideas and great tips too. Thank you!
Inspiring with a great blend of presentations.
Brilliantly organised - great use of time - good speakers.
Excellent! Very useful and informative with lost of great tips and ideas.
Very useful and inspiring! I liked the very practical approach with its useful tips on "how to podcast" plus the examples that were used to illustrate excellent practice. Thanks - I hope to spread the word!

Reading for pleasure 7 March, 2008
I am going back to school inspired and enthusiastic.
Thank you for providing me with such a brilliant opportunity.
An excellent day.
Outstanding day- well run, good communication and food.
I found the conference extremely interesting and it has provided me with many ideas for promoting ' reading for pleasure' in my school.

"Raising Achievement through Podcasting" - 8 February, 2008
Excellent introduction to podcasting.
Excellent speakers - full of ideas.
Stimulating and practical.
Very fast paced. Excellent balance of information pedagogy and real application.
Wonderful - I have learnt so much and now feel confident to have a go. Thank you!

PSHE - getting it right in your school - 30 November, 2007
So much incredibly useful information squeezed into a compact, manageable session - fantastic!
Superb speakers - very well organised. Pace was excellent.

Reading for Pleasure (Primary) 19 October, 2007
A really super day. Thoroughly enjoyable - thank you!
It was an excellent day, beautifully organised.
Fabulous day - let me know when there is another one!
Fab venue, delicious lunch, great day all round.

Small Change, Big Impact - Raising Boys' Achievement, 21 September, 2007
Excellent Day.
A great day.Really inspirational speakers - lots of common sense, but such passion and a real belief in making a difference. I want to go back and do something now!
Very informative, interesting and entertaining day - thank you.
I really thought it was excellent.
Thank you so much for an excellent day So valuable in terms of ideas and inspiration, practical but embedded in wide ethos.

Reading for Pleasure (Secondary) 4 July,2007
I wish to express my thanks for the "Reading for Pleasure" Seminar yesterday. I found it both informative and uplifting - no mean feat at the end of the academic year!
Many thanks for an excellent day!
Thank you so much brilliant day.
Second year of attending this course and even more enjoyable than the last time!

Using News to teach KS2 and KS3 Literacy, Friday 29 June, 2007
Very inspiring - don't want to break up (from school) now.
An enlightening morning with lots to think about and take back to school.

Politics, People and Judges, Friday 15 June, 2007
Please, please can this be an annual event?
A fresh perspective - ideas to engage staff and students.
Given lots of ideas to think about which will inform my thinking and planning.

Free Speech and Citizenship, Friday 16 March, 2007
Very friendly, helpful, enthusiastic and inspiring.
Really inspiring session - we can become very insular at school.
It was a good, varied and thought provoking day.

Reading for Pleasure (Primary) Friday 2 March, 2007
Very high quality of speakers, well organised, good balance and pace, excellent value for money.
Excellent course - very pacey, really good speakers.
Extremely well co-ordinated course and enjoyable. Revision and focus on what really mattered - renewed confidence.

Using news to teach KS2 and KS3 literacy, 12 January 2007
Excellent, very fast paced - stimulation, excellent speakers, very practical.
A great day.

Creation and Intelligent Design - Friday 1 December, 2006
I found the conference very thought provoking and helpful. Thank you so much for the conference, it was excellent.
It was an extremely useful session - the debate is referred to in our new RE syllabus.

Enhancing scientific literacy - Friday 20 October, 2006
Brilliant - all teachers of KS4 should attend!
Such a fantastic range of speakers - all excelled.
What a refreshing day! All speakers spoke fluently and with interest!
I enjoyed the variety and fast pace. Really useful and informative.

Reading for Pleasure (Primary) - 29 September, 2006
An excellent day.
Thanks for the opportunity to listen to such stimulating speakers. Super day - informative and entertaining - a great line up speakers. I was truly enchanted.
Thoroughly inspirational as well as useful on a practical level. Can you come to Cheshire and do it again in my school please?