Welcome to Inspired

Anna Gallo’s Lily is the name and owner of this unusual Bed and Breakfast. Set between the late 1950’s and the mid 1960’s in the landscape of West Yorkshire, the story weaves back and forth returning to the present of 1966.

Full synopsis

In the mid-sixties, Lily, an unusually evocative Bed and Breakfast, re-imagined as the town’s first and only Italian-styled guesthouse, set in the hilly landscapes of West Yorkshire, opens to its first five guests as Anna Gallo, the establishment’s unlikely, but proud owner opens her doors. Told with a great sense of wit, eloquence and eccentricity, childhood memories, dreams and the fortunes of the first five guests who stay at Lily’s are eventually cast as the story meanders and unfolds with surprising twists and hidden secrets, as the story finally closes.

We meet Big and Little Stan, coffee manufacturer and gifted twelve-year old son; Chance, an aristocrat; Marybeth, a solitary figure with a love of poisonous mushrooms and owner of five idiosyncratic dogs, and Teresa, the first guest, who never leaves.

Childhood memories and family ties delve into the intricate lives of diverse characters combining to ignite the story with the possibility of long-lasting friendships. This forms the heart and soul of the book.

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Our promise to you:

To create an environment that helps make English both accessible and enjoyable
To understand the key skills of English necessary to develop and grow into independent learners across the curriculum
To ingrain confidence and self-belief in a student’s personal abilities and skills
To develop a motivated enjoyment for reading and writing

At Inspired we:

Design personal curriculum-based resources to help every student excel across Key Stages 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Include subject-related topics to understand language, learn the skills to infer, summarise and identify meanings
Take students through pre-exam mock practice exams to assess their target and expected levels
Cover all forms of SPAG across the key stages and test students’ skills and knowledge in editing, spelling, punctuation and grammar
Support school topic-work to excel each student’s target levels
Innovate and challenge each student to reach their full potential
Encourage independent reading for all students as a self-chosen pleasure.

Our aims are simple: - Learn, Develop, Grow, and Succeed

Learn the skills to transfer knowledge and skills across all areas of the curriculum
Develop each student’s strengths and help them develop at their own pace and beyond
Grow into students who relish the enjoyment of reading as a self-elected choice
Succeed, reap and appreciate the gains

What we cover across all key stages:

KS1

Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words
Read accurately by blending the sounds in words
Read accurately words of two or more syllables
Read words containing common suffixes
Make distinctions between spellings and sounds
Read most words quickly and accurately, without overt sounding and blending
Read books aloud, sounding out unfamiliar words accurately and automatically
Build fluency and confidence in word reading

KS2

To read and discuss an increasingly wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks
To read books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes
To identify and discuss themes and conventions in and across a wide range of writing
To make comparisons within and across books
To interpret a wide range of poetry
To interpret texts and explore the meaning of words in context
To draw inferences such as inferring characters' feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
To summarise and paraphrase the main ideas drawn from a range of extracted texts
To identify how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning

KS3

AO1: Read, understand and respond to texts:
- Maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response
- Use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.
AO2: Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects
AO3: Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written.
AO4: Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation.

KS4

AO1: Articulate informed, personal and creative responses to literary texts, using associated concepts and terminology
AO2: Analyse ways in which meanings are shaped in literary texts.
AO3: Demonstrate understanding of the significance and influence of the contexts in which literary texts are written and received.
AO4: Explore connections across literary texts.
AO5: Explore literary texts informed by different interpretations.

7+, 11+, 13+, admission to Academy schools and private school admission

Covers both the CEM and GL examining bodies for Maths and English

Non-verbal reasoning
Verbal reasoning
Creative writing
Grammar, punctuation and spelling

Support for home-schooled students

Across all key stages 1-4
Tailor-made schemes of work and specific models of working

Courses for schools and teachers

We deliver theoretical and practical training courses for schools and teachers

Teaching resources across the curriculum
Support for reluctant learners
Support for EAL students
Support for students with additional needs
Tailored schemes of work and original models of working
Support for newly qualified teachers

Support for Businesses and individual adults

Support for individual teams
Support for individual business-based adults (English and non-English speakers and English as a second language)

Costs:

Students: between £45-60 per hour (dependent on individual circumstances, preparation, and planning requirements)
Adults: £50 per hour
Schools: £300 per day
Businesses: £450 per day