Parents and their three- and four- year-olds will attend 12 one-hour sessions designed to encourage home learning, to improve literacy and language skills in their children.
The £689,059 grant awarded to education charity Peeple, will fund 150 settings to take part in the programme.
The grant is one of a number announced by the Education Endowment Foundation, which is funding five new trials to evaluate the impact of a range of programmes on children’s attainment.
The largest grant, for £1.2m, is going to a scheme called SAPERE, which uses philosophy to improve maths and English in primary school pupils.
Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust, which set up the foundation, said, ‘Evidence is teachers’ greatest ally when it comes to deciding between different programmes or interventions. The evaluations of these six programmes will add to the EEF’s growing source of robust and reliable evidence that teachers and school leaders can use.
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