Wellbeing and Inclusion Update

Wellbeing Update

Speech Therapist Groups - Colourful Semantics

Shanae (Speech Therapist) has begun taking intervention groups with the focus being on Colourful Semantics. 

Colourful Semantics is a Speech and Language Therapy approach created by Alison Bryan. This approach provides children with a visual framework to develop their sentence structure and grammar. It does this by attaching a colour to the different elements in a sentence:

1. Who – Orange
2. What Doing – Yellow
3. What – Green
4. Where – Blue

This allows your child to learn the important elements of a sentence (e.g. verbs), and how to put them together in the correct order. By providing this visual element, you give your child the opportunity to build their own sentences, at the level they are working on.

Alongside the four key colour-coded elements, there are also further stages that incorporate adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions and negatives.

In order to understand a bit better how this approach works let’s look at this sentence:

Tom is riding his bike to the shop.

There are different parts that make up this sentence and each part is given a colour:

Who? Tom

What Doing? is riding

What? his bike

Where? to the shop

Who is Colourful Semantics suitable for?

The Colourful Semantics approach is suitable for children with a wide range of speech, language and communication needs (SLCN):

• Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
• Language Delay or Disorder
• Global Developmental Delay
• Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
• Learning Disability
• Down Syndrome

What kind of things can Colourful Semantics be used for?

There are a range of skills that can be targeted using this approach, including but not limited to;

• Understanding & answering WH question words (e.g. who, what)
• Understanding word order (e.g. Subject-Verb- Object)
• Developing sentence length
• Story telling skills
• Vocabulary development

Outside Behaviour - Post Box Winner 

Congratulations to the following students for winning a 3D printed prize. This was due to using our school values in the playground and being spotted by the teacher. 

Well done