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Nurseries & Pre-Schools

We can help prepare your pre-schoolers.

Little Speaking Tree will work within your childcare setting to deliver our unique programme of sessions.  This unique programme will support children aged from as young as 18mths all the way up to 4.5yrs; that all important year before they make the transition into mainstream Reception.

We will come into your nursery and work with groups of children alongside your nursery practitioners and deliver a comprehensive, engaging framework of activities specifically targeting the 4 key communication skills:

  • Listening: Absorbing and processing the spoken word and other sounds around the effectively (active listening!)
  • Understanding: Developing story sequencing skills and interpretation of cause and effect within story plots
  • Speaking: Using words and gestures effectively
  • Concentration: Extending time spent independently focusing

For your pre-schoolers (3.5yrs +) we entwine Pie Corbett’s Early Years ‘Talk4writing’ teaching framework into some of our own unique activities that we have researched alongside leading speech and language specialists.

What our nurseries say they value about us:

  • Seeing tangible, measurable improvement in all children's speaking and listening skills
  • Extend the excellent nursery provision already in place
  • Share exciting, new practice within their nursery setting delivered by a fully qualified Early Years teacher
  • Focus on groups of children to give the senior members of staff time for essential administration duties without detracting from the children's learning time
  • Provide in house training for the more junior members of staff
  • Favourable PR with the OFSTED body and prospective parents
  • Help the nursery stand out above other nurseries in the area
  • Enable 45 minutes of uninterrupted foucssed work with groups of children away from the busy nursery environment

What families say we bring to their child's nursery:

  • Parents notice their children independently entwining our activities in their everyday play outside the sessions
  • Enhanced preparation for starting school in Reception
  • Children are more confident in speaking, listening and story telling
  • Unique resources and activities not seen before at nursery
  • The smaller focussed sessions give time away from the busy nursery environment
  • Very useful take home tips for parents
  • Something new for the children to get excited about that day

Discover how we can support your nursery

If you would like to find out more about how we can work within your nursery, please complete the form below.  A member of the team will be in touch as soon as possible to discuss how we can support and extend the essential communication skills of the children in your nursery to not only prepare them for school, but for set them up for life.