PROJECT
Tales Toolkit
PURPOSE
To support early learning and development through storytelling
FUNDING
A Teach First Innovation Award (£15,000 plus advice and resources such as office space), the UnLtd Do it Award (£5,000) and the UnLtd Grow It Award (£15,000). The organisation is now sustainable through sales of the toolkit at £800 each
BACKGROUND
Kate Shelley's work as an Early Years Foundation Stage co-ordinator, locality lead for children's centres and deputy head in a nursery school and children's centre led her to develop the Tales Toolkit. Based in disadvantaged areas of London, she saw children coming into nursery with limited communication and language skills, high levels of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and English as an additional language, and was keen to find a way to support them.
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