Learning and Development

Raising Early Achievement in Literacy (REAL)

Courses

Making it REAL in Bolton

This programme is linked to both the Early years education recovery programme: supporting the sector which includes training for the Home Learning Environment (HLE) and the Family Hub Programme, with funding to support Early Language and Home Learning Environment.

 

REAL

  • Boosts children’s communication, language and early literacy development.
  • Supports parents and the home learning environment.
  • Takes a low cost/no-cost approach.
  • Is fun, engaging and accessible to all.
  • Is built around the four strands of literacy and the ORIM framework.
  • Builds practitioners and parents’ knowledge, skills and confidence to support children’s early literacy.

REAL Learning and Development

 

How REAL works

  • Early Years Professionals attend 2-days 'Making it REAL' training.
  • Schools and nurseries work with families through a series of home visits and literacy events.
  • During home visits and literacy events, practitioner share resources with families to demonstrate and model the four strands of literacy and the 'ORIM Framework'.

Download and Share the REAL Family Fun Poster
Come and join us at this free fun event to promote early literacy in Bolton!

 

Bolton Primary Schools and Nurseries Delivering the REAL Programme

  • All Saints CE Primary School
  • Baby Bede Day Nursery
  • Beacon Primary School
  • Bolton St Catherines Academy
  • Bright Futures Nursery
  • Church Road Primary School
  • Croft House Day Nursery
  • Gaskell Primary School
  • Grosvenor Nursery School
  • Heaton House Nursery
  • High Lawn Primary School
  • Hocus Pocus Day Nursery
  • Johnson Fold CP School
  • Kearsley West Primary School
  • Ladybirds Nursery
  • Lever Edge Primary Academy
  • Moorgate Primary School
  • Pikes Lane Primary School
  • Red Lane Primary
  • Rose Cottage Nursery
  • Seymour Road Nursery 
  • St Ethelberts RCP
  • St George's CE Primary School
  • St Peter & St Pauls RCP School
  • Sunning Hill Primary School
  • The Ferns Academy
  • The Red House Nursery
  • TicTots Nursery
  • Wells House Kindergarten
  • Willow Tree Nursery

What's next

If you'd like to get involved, keep a look out in the Start Well News, Courses page and Early Years Update Email (Subscribe to receive it here) for the next REAL 2-day training dates.