On No Pens Wednesday (7 October) the Communication Trust, a coalition of 52 voluntary and community-based speech and language organisations, provides resources to run a full day of activities focused on speaking and listening.
Anne Fox, director of The Communication Trust, said, ‘The concept of No Pens Day Wednesday came about during the Hello campaign, the national year of communication in 2011. We wanted to find a way to engage schools in easy ways to focus on speaking and listening.’
The campaign began in 2011 but last year it made its debut in the early years sector due to high demand from practitioners with 388 early years settings taking part (22 per cent of the overall number).
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