Communication and Language

Communication and Language

We prioritise high-quality adult-child interactions, using approaches such as ShREC (Share attention, Respond, Expand and Conversation) to develop children's vocabulary, confidence and ability to communicate effectively. Staff carefully consider their questioning, modelling and responses to extend children's thinking and spoken language across all areas of learning.

In order to offer targeted and specialist support to children we also made a number of strategic decisions on support. We have contracted our own Speech and Language Therapist to support with rapid identification of needs and support available. This has been an integral part of our professional development as through this offer our therapist models practices to staff so that therapy activities can happen regularly for children and practices can be utlised in the classroom. We also use programmes such as Box Clever and Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) to develop.