Our intent

Our intent is for our children to become skillful communicators who connect with others through language and play.

Implementation

We provide children with opportunities to experience a communication friendly environment, and to develop their early skills in speaking and listening in a range of situations, through both adult led and child-initiated play. Our team promote these skills through programmes tailored to their level of need. They also work alongside Speech and Language Therapists to deliver activities for both groups and individual children. We deliver daily Bucket time sessions and encourage communication and language skills through both adult directed and child-initiated play.

Our staff are trained in Makaton and use this throughout the day, in order to support children to share their thoughts and feelings with those around them.

Impact

We monitor the progress of our children through regular, ongoing observations and assessments. We use our online Learning journey, Tapestry, to record this. We use the United Learning Curriculum, Statutory framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage and Development Matters to plan our progressive curriculum, across our EYFS, in order ensure that our children are making good progress. We also moderate both within school and externally as a LAT to ensure that our judgements are accurate.