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Gateway College

gateway college

“Research conducted by the Royal Mail concludes that spelling mistakes and poor grammar cost UK businesses more than £700 million a year, the Cabinet Office puts the figure even higher at £10 billion” 40% of British companies feel that the lack of literacy amongst their employers, including graduates, is costing them money. Hours are wasted ploughing through confused and confusiing documents. And even worse, business is lost through poorly written proposals and sales pitches. At Verve Training, we believe that our business writing courses provide a powerful solution to this problem. Our clients come from every sector and include major organisations and corporations such as the NHS, Virgin, and BAE Systems Detica; and also smaller niche companies and groups such as Global Maritime and the General Dental Council. Business Writing Courses How Verve Training Can Help All of our business writing courses are supplied on a bespoke basis so that we can tailor the training to your precise needs. Each course provides a unique level of practical training which carefully reinforces the theory of each module with writing exercises. We offer both group courses and one-to-one coaching. Verve delivers training across the UK and abroad. What makes our business writing courses uniquely effective is that they are taught by respected professional writers and journalists working in the national media today, who are highly practised both at producing clear, concise documents and in passing those skills on to others. We also have specialised trainers to teach writing courses to employees with a technical or scientific background, who often face slightly different challenges in learning to communicate effectively. We are so confident in the value of our business writing courses that unlike most training companies, we offer a full money back guarantee on all our writing courses. In addition to our business writing courses, we have a number of other communication courses teaching media training and presentation skills. Verve also offers a full corporate video service, producing everything from short promotional pieces to longer more in-depth films. If you would like more information on any of our business writing o

Toe By Toe

toe by toe

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Shipley

Keda spent almost all of her teaching career at one school - Sandal Road Primary School in Baildon, UK. She also almost exclusively taught just one age group, 6-7 year-olds; the age that most children pick up their reading skills. This was to become Keda’s great passion - the teaching of reading. Initially, she was baffled as to why a significant proportion of the children in her classes struggled to pick up basic reading skills. To Keda, they were just as bright as the other children but - for them - reading remained a mysteriously difficult skill. Keda always had a keen and inquisitive mind and this question of why some children had difficulties in learning to read nagged at her. She thought that she had somehow failed these students, so she made an offer to their parents. She asked their permission to teach their children at her home - without charge - at the end of the school day. As a result of this offer, Keda’s house was soon overflowing with struggling readers. Keda even designed an extension to her house to include a custom-built classroom and persuaded her doting husband Albert to build it. For the next 30 years, Keda’s house - literally, just a stone’s throw away from the school where she worked - was full of children. Between 4-5pm every school day she looked for ways to improve their reading skills. Keda's All-Consuming Passion At the time Keda began her research into children’s reading problems, few people had even heard of the term ‘dyslexia’. Keda became fascinated by the condition and her private research soon became an all-consuming obsession. She divided the children into two groups. A control group where conventional methods were used, and her ‘guinea pigs’, where Keda tried anything and everything to see what would work. This painstaking process of trial and error became the genesis of what later came to be known as Toe By Toe. Keda had no idea what was happening in the psychology departments of universities. She simply looked at the reading process and pared it down to the bare essentials necessary to crack the code of this ‘reading thing’. This is also why Toe By Toe is so refreshingly free of jargon and psychological gobbledygook. It certainly wasn’t a ‘quick fix’ process. Only after decades of this meticulous approach did Toe By Toe eventually become the fully functioning system we have now. Keda named the system ‘Toe By Toe’ after a grateful parent commented that she could see how it worked: “Progress by tiny steps – almost one toe at a time…”