“We cannot praise the work of Bridge Speech and Language Therapy Services highly enough. They have been instrumental in supporting us to raise standards in our school.
Maybury Primary is a school in an area of high social deprivation. We have high aspirations for all our children and work hard to remove significant barriers to learning. However, until beginning work with Bridge SLT, we did not have the appropriate skills, or the access to appropriate support, to tackle our children’s speech and language issues nor to provide the language acquisition support that many of our children needed.
Since beginning work with us in 2014, Bridge SLT have worked as professional partners to create and deliver a bespoke package of support that truly meets the needs of our children. As well as giving individual and group therapy on a weekly basis, they train and work with our staff ensuring that the intervention work with the children happens in school on a daily basis. This ongoing CPD has been invaluable in developing the understanding and skills of our teachers and teaching assistants and the impact has been significant for the development of our children.
We have seen improved outcomes in the number of children achieving the early learning goal in Communication and Language at the end of the Foundation Stage, which has impacted effectively on their progress across all areas of learning. Higher up the school, careful tracking shows us that the work provided by Bridge SLT has contributed to greater rates of progress and improved attainment across the curriculum for the children targeted for support.
Bridge SLT are now an integral part of our school provision and we would recommend the service without reservation.”