Bespoke consultancy to address the speaking and listening difficulties faced by today's children.
talkingpartners@primary (formerly known as Talking Partners) is a programme designed to improve the way children communicate across the curriculum, enabling them to be independent and skillful speakers and listeners. It's a targeted, time-limited (10 weeks) intervention that can be used with the whole class, small groups or individuals.
By providing opportunities to practice and rehearse target language through a range of focused activities, pupils develop their independent skills to become good communicators. talkingpartners@primary is a structured oral language programme providing part of an integrated approach to raise levels of achievement by improving children’s speaking and listening skills.
talkingpartners@primary also helps children to become more confident and competent users of English. It encourages them to listen more actively and talk for a range of purposes and draws particular attention to the links between oracy and literacy.
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Talkingpartners@primary is effective, proven good practice. During a 10 week programme pupils typically make over 18 months progress in their productive oral language. We have a growing body of evidence that highlights the efficacy of talkingpartners@primary. Click here to read our case studies>
Click below to download the following TP@P Data Reports:
Download the full 2019 TP@P Data Report
Download the full 2016 TP@P Data Report
The programme is for pupils aged from 4 to 11 who:
Experienced TAs ( Level 3 and above) and HLTAs attend 2-days of intensive training. A teacher (preferably SMT) who is also expected to attend the training, is appointed as the school coordinator. All participants receive a training pack, which contains full descriptions of activities, frameworks for teaching and assessment materials to support delivery and measure impact.
Trained partners work with groups of three pupils for twenty minutes
three times a week for ten weeks, using activities that have been
specifically designed to support the development of oral language skills
required for academic success in the classroom. Adaptations of this
model can be made for EYFS where a 'little and often' approach would be
more appropriate, i.e. 10 minutes 5 times a week for 10 weeks.
Education Works can provide training for experienced Teaching Assistants, Support Assistants, Learning Mentors and Teachers to work with 3 children with this successful intervention. It also provides practitioners with skills and strategies to deliver day to day quality first teaching in speaking and listening.
As a National Trainer, our Consultant Clare Reed can also train Consultants, Head Teachers, Reading Recovery Teacher Leaders or other senior educational professionals to be a TP Trainer for schools in their Local Authority.
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These guidelines state minimum requirements to ensure the successful implementation of talkingpartners@primary. Please click here to download.
For more information about our Speaking and Listening programmes, contact our lead Speaking and Listening consultant Clare Reed on +44 (0)7973 324335; or email clare.reed@educationworks.org.uk.