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Time
8.30 - 9.15	Coffee and Registration
9.15 - 9.30	Introduction and Welcome	Christine Brooks, Implementation Supervisor Renaissance Learning
9.30 - 10.30	Author Presentation Tommy Donbavand HOT to PLOT Read Tommy's full biography by clicking here.	Tommy Donbavand is the best selling author of the ‘Scream Street Series’ and the ‘Too Ghoul For School Series’. He also writes for a number of magazines, such as the Times Educational Supplement (TES) and Junior Education. Tommy will show how by helping students create a plan for a story before writing the first word you can remove the fear that can be easily induced by a blank sheet of paper or empty computer screen.
10.30-11.00	SSAT	Kathy Heaps is a former Head Teacher and has spent the last year gathering together examples of effective literacy projects from across English Secondary Schools. Her independent report has just been published by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and in this presentation she will share some of these best practices.
11.00 - 11.15	Coffee Break & Book Signing
11.15 - 12.15	Author Presentation Theresa Breslin Read Theresa's full biography by clicking here.	Theresa Breslin is a Carnegie medal winning Author of over 30 books - some for challenged/EAL readers. Bestsellers include Divided City, Remembrance, Whispers in the Graveyard and the Dream Master series. In her presentation she'll talk about her prize-winning title, Divided City, which explores prejudice, racism and sectarianism - and the power of friendship to combat these. With themes of Citizenship and Conflict Resolution there are a wide variety of book notes and resources available for this book.
12.15 - 1.15	Lunch and Book Signing
1.15 - 2.00	Holy Family Primary School Presentation Tommy McDermot	"Raising Interest and standards of Reading within our school" Tommy will be discussing the various issues and challenges the school has faced and how Accelerated Reader has been instrumental in resolving a number of these areas.
2.00 - 2.30	Inspirational Writing Ideas Richard Hubbard	This hands-on session will introduce the NEO 2 and show how inspirational writing techniques can be developed using simple technology.
2.30 - 2.45	Coffee Break & Book Signing
2.45 - 3.30	Presentation Royal Belfast School Kathy Lindsay Bangor Grammar school Ann Cowdrey	Working together to improve literacy’ Two librarians demonstrate the use made of Accelerated Reader in their schools and how they have developed a working partnership which has culminated in their joint introduction of a children’s book award in Northern Ireland, the first of its kind in the Province.
3.30	Finish