At Parkview, we prioritise language and literacy as the foundations of learning. Children’s spoken language is crucial to future success in reading and writing. This starts in Nursery, where there is an emphasis on rhymes, traditional tales and songs. 

The more children take part in conversations and discussion, the more they will understand once they can read and the more vocabulary and ideas they will have to draw on when they can write.

The Reading Framework, 2023.

Early Talk Boost

We are an Early Talk Boost school. This is a targeted programme aimed at 3-4 year old children who need help with talking and understanding words. Most importantly, the programme helps to boost their language skills to narrow the gap between them and their peers. The programme aims to accelerate children’s progress in language and communication by an average of 5 months after 9 weeks.

Children who are selected to take part in the programme will attend three sessions per week, each lasting 15-20 minutes delivered by either Mrs Gascoyne or Mrs Lucas. The sessions include activities that cover the foundation skills in speech, language and communication that children need for learning and understanding new words, as well as having conversations.

What are the benefits of Talk Boost?

The benefits are:

• Supports children who are not achieving their expected levels of progress in their language development
• Focusing on developing staff skills
• Help to build relationships with parents, by reinforcing the language skills the child learned during the group sessions
• An all-in-one speech and language solution package
• Can be used by non speech and language specialists
• Proven to improve children’s language and communication through our evidence base
• Designed to be sustainable so you can deliver the programme multiple times to new groups of children
• A dedicated team to support you to maximise the impact of Early Talk Boost in your setting
• Identify, monitor and track children’s progress before and following the programme with the online tracker

Speech Link 

If you are worried you child has a speech and language delay, please find further information here:

Parkview Primary School - Speech & Language Delay

Spoken Language & Listening Planner

The planner below is the essential learning in each year group to ensure our Year 6 pupils leave Parkview confident to participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play/improvisations and debates. It ensures our pupils can speak audibly, fluently and can articulate and justify answers and opinions.