Exciting new concept – PRESCOT LOVES TO TALK
#PrescotLovesToTalk
Everyone in Prescot Talking to each other
Prescot Loves To Talk is a concept created by Evelyn Primary School who then chatted to ICAN children’s communication charity who then chatted to Knowsley Council.
We want to encourage chat and communication at every opportunity in Prescot. We want to make Prescot the place where talk is everywhere, where everyone chats.
What we want to achieve
- Prescot to be ‘the best it can be’ when it comes to talking to each other
- Encourage everyone from 0-100 to benefit from or contribute to talking
- To realise the potential for talk in all places, within our organisations and homes
Why do we need to talk?
- English is a beautiful language with lots of linguistic possibilities. It has been shaped by Shakespeare and many other wonderful writers and speakers.
- To help us argue our case, discuss, explain, inform, instruct, express ourselves and talk about what has happened. To do this we need to adapt our speech according to the audience, purpose and context
- To understand ourselves, our lives and make our way successfully in the world.
Talking is important for everyone
Children
Did you know?
- Children with poor early language at age five are four times more likely to struggle with reading at age 11 and succeeding at GCSE
- Children with poor vocabulary skills are twice as likely to be unemployed when they reach adulthood.
Adults
- Speech allows us to connect with others
- A wide vocabulary can help you get a good job, by widening your options
- If you can articulate your ideas, it helps reduce frustration, e.g. trying to persuade or explain something to others
Families
- Talking and listening makes for healthy family relationships
- Talking and listening to your child improves your bond with them
- Talking forms relationships and builds self esteem
- Talking about our emotions makes us feel better. You can find out how each other feels
- You can respond to someone in a sensitive way to good news, as well as sadness or fear
- If you talk to your child when they are young, it will be easier to talk to them as a teenager
‘You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere’
Please put your view on #PrescotLovesToTalk
To read more go to www.loveprescot.co.uk
To get involved just chat.
For further information contact Evelyn Primary School on 0151 477 8570
Twitter:
@KnowsleyCouncil
@ICANcharity
@EvelynPrimary
Details of the Launch Event
Thursday 21st March
Awareness day for ‘Prescot Loves To Talk’
Also the first day of Spring and World poetry Day
On this day children from the 4 primary schools in Prescot will perform poetry, dance and sing along the length of Eccleston Street.
At 9.30am they will be introduced by a town crier outside Prescot Church
9.35 – Evelyn CP School will dance to the music ‘Shout’
9.45 – St Marys and St Pauls will perform
10.00 – the town crier will then lead the children onto Eccleston street
10.10 – Our Ladys will perform outside Waterfields bakery
10.20 – Evelyn CP school will perform a poem
10.30 – the town crier will then lead the children up to the area opposite Boots
10.40 – Prescot Primary will perform
11.00 – town crier
11.10 – Evelyn CP school choir will perform
Children from Evelyn will go into every shop in Prescot from 9.45 a.m. and tell the shopkeepers about the project, if the shopkeepers think it is a good idea they will then award them with a sticker to go in their shop window.
To celebrate National Poetry Day, we are joining forces with Prescot Loves to talk is joining forces with GEM places at Prescot Library and have the renowned poet Curtis Watt who will be delivering light-hearted riddle poems, which really focus on celebrating the use of words.
The school children involved with the Prescot Loves to talk day will then go and visit Curtis throughout the morning. |
For further information please contact the Culture Development and Events Service at Knowsley Council 443 5618