The Attention and Listening in the Early Years programme, or 'Listen with Lucy', as it is known in Shropshire, aims to nurture the attention, concentration and listening skills of children aged two to four years.
It was first developed for a Sure Start programme and in response to concerns, both locally and nationally, that children were entering reception classes with inadequate attention skills for accessing the national curriculum (Early Years Language Survey of Head Teachers, National Literacy Trust, 2001).
Many settings in the area already used the SALLEY programme - Structured Activities for Language and Literacy in the Early Years (Boucher et al, 2002) for improving the attention skills of children from three and a half years old. So 'Listen with Lucy' was developed to support the language skills of much younger children.
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