Reluctant communicators becoming more confident and children using and understanding more vocabulary are just some of the outcomes reported by early years practitioners in Liverpool and Sefton who took part in a Language Leaders project.
Participants also reported they had ‘grown’ as professionals during the innovative programme, led by the North Liverpool Teaching School Partnership and funded by the DfE Strategic School Improvement Fund.
Language Leaders was based on the URLEY – Using Research tools to improve Language in the Early Years – approach developed by researchers at the University of Oxford and A+ Education. The programme aimed to improve children’s language outcomes by supporting practitioners to use evidence-based tools and research-validated practices.
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