Helen Grimsditch found Tales Toolkit:

• Significantly improves teacher knowledge“Tales Toolkit is built on a fundamental understanding of the principles and pedagogy of early childhood education. It fully compliments the EYFS curriculum and supports an inclusive and balanced to approach to planning for all children’s learning and development. It supports an understanding of effective early years teaching through high quality interactions and also an understanding of how to support young children's early Communication, Language and Literacy development through narrative and storytelling. This gives educators key skills and confidence and the enjoyment and levels of engagement of the children show they love it too!”
• Significantly improves attainment“In 2018 we analysed the Literacy outcomes for the children in the schools using the programme. There was a clear correlation to improved outcomes, particularly for boys. Increased engagement and being led by the children's ideas and imagination increased attainment in Communication and Language sills at age 5. Children's understanding of story structure also impacts on Key Stage 1 attainment in the examples of the stories written by the children.”