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A Unique Child: Inclusion - A capital idea

Funding from the Early Years Pupil Premium led to a Natural Explorers project in Hackney that benefited the whole nursery and children’s centre, write Lisa Clarke and Fran Paffard

Many children arrive at Comet Nursery School and Children’s Centre in East London with a need for speech and language development, so the introduction of the Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) made us think hard about what we wanted to develop and how we could achieve it.

Comet lies in the heart of Hackney, an area of deprivation with poor housing but a richly diverse community, ethnically and linguistically. Of the 14 languages spoken by our families, Turkish is the main home language after English, while many families originate from African countries. More than a third of our children qualify for the EYPP.

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