Parents, professionals and children will mark the success of a language and literacy scheme for youngsters at a special celebration event on Thursday 5th May. Reading Council's Early Years Service has been running the project, called Helping Early Language and Literacy Outcomes (HELLO), with the National Literacy Trust over the past year.
Reading Borough Council was one of two local authorities and eight nursery teaching schools chosen to trial the project to promote young children's communication, language and literacy development.
Many staff and parents lent each other books, shared lyrics to songs and used story maps to tell favourite tales. This helped children to become more enthusiastic about stories and books and grow in confidence which enabled them to join in more learning activities.
