Speech and Language Screening
Language Link Assessment
Dear parent/guardian,
During the autumn term, your child completed a speech and language screening in school. It is a test which helps the school to identify if your child has any Speech, Language and Communication needs. A member of school based staff completed the test with your child. The online assessments are picture based and children often enjoy completing them. They take around 30 minutes to complete.
Results
Your child completed the following assessment:
Infant Language Link
Speech Link
Some areas of need were identified, and an intervention will be put in place to support your child.
What happens next?
Group interventions will take place in school. You can support your child at home in many ways. Staff will send home an activity pack. Please complete this activity with your child and let us know how they are getting on via Seesaw.
Home learning activities can also be accessed through the Speech Link parent portal which can be accessed at https://speechandlanguage.info/parents I am sure that this work will have a positive impact on his/her development.
Year 1 meet with Leader of Learning Mrs Pritchard to think about how they learn best
Year 1 pupils met with Mrs Pritchard ERW Leader of Learning to reflect on how they learn best.
Year 2 joined in the discussion too!
WellComm
What is it?
When your child starts Nursery, a member of staff will carry out the WellComm Screen to see how your child’s speech and language skills are developing.
Why is it important?
The early identification of any speech and language difficulty/ delay is vital to improving your child’s overall potential.
It is never too early to consider your child’s communication and to support and encourage this from an early stage.
What will this involve?
Staff will carry out some short activities. Toys and pictures will be used to make it fun and interesting.
And then….
your child may be provided with targets to work on in school and at home, this will support any areas of their language that need to be developed.
Why One Page Profiles?
Dear Parents,
We have trialled using One Page Profiles in St. Joseph’s Infant School. They are a simple tool,
an A4 information sheet on which we capture important information to help our teachers
to personalise learning. This information enables teachers to be aware of the strengths,
interests and specific support needs of their pupils.
One page profiles can be used to inform action planning and target setting, so that these
reflect what is important to the young person and how best to support them. This can make
targets more meaningful and relevant to the young person. On our infant school setting
they are a very valuable way for the our very youngest children to have a voice in how they
are supported in school, and to have their strengths and what is important to them as an
individual acknowledged. One page profiles are also a way for parents/carers to share
their knowledge and expertise on how best to support their child.
Please take some time to fill in the Profile and return to school. Thanks, Ms Beaumont
How are our children assessed in Reception?
Keeping in the loop! How are our children doing in Reception Class?
National Baseline Assessment
During the first weeks of Reception Class children will be assessed using the National Baseline Assessment tool. Areas to be assessed include Mathematical Development, Language Communication, Physical and Personal and Social Development.
Language Link Assessment
Language Link is an IT tool, that gives Teachers and Teaching Assistants the ability to test for developmental language delays and put in place support where necessary.
What happens next?
At the end of the evaluation recommendations will be generated for any child with difficulties.
We will use the recommendations to put strategies and activities in place for your child. Your child may be included in a language group. We will provide you with some easy activities that you can do with your child at home.
Speech Link Assessment
Speech link is a tool that gives us the ability to assess children’s speech development. It will identify speech delays and recommend speech sound programmes where necessary.
What happens next?
We will download programmes and pictures from the web site.
Finding out how well are children are doing in Nursery
Assessments tell us how well your child is doing and identifies the gaps to be filled.
In Nursery children will be assessed using Wellcomm assessment and on entry school baseline assessment. Our priority during this exciting step in your child’s life is to ensure that they are happy and settled. The Wellcomm assessment will be shared with parents during Parent meetings and Class assemblies.
Making links in learning
As parents are the first educators, working in partnership, targets to work on will be sent home.