Walk and Talk

Walk and Talk is a Lancashire campaign to promote the importance of communication and language for our youngest children.

We've provided lots of resources for you as practitioners to share with your parents and get involved as a setting such as:

  • top tips for communication and language
  • discussion ideas for different places such as the park, the woods and the shops
  • discussion prompts for local places that families can visit, provided by local settings

Our campaign aims to encourage families to go outside and communicate with each other.

Watch our video for an introduction to the campaign.

We know nationally, Covid-19 has had a huge impact on children's communication and language  and personal, social and emotional development. Focussing our attention through Walk and Talk will help children  develop those vital skills they require for lifelong learning.

The Lancashire Early Years of Life Strategy emphasises the focus on "closing the word gap and improve child communications outcomes", achieving this through the home learning environment, early education environment and through early identification and intervention. The Walk and Talk campaign would support in achieving the aims of the strategy.

Pledge

Sign up to the walk and talk campaign by downloading and displaying the walk and talk pledge.

Share

Download the Walk and Talk logo for use in your communications around Walk and Talk:

We would love to hear how you support walk and talk in your settings. Whether it is a walk around your outdoor area or in the locality.

Share your ideas and success stories with us on our Facebook Page or private group. Please ensure you have consent to share photographs/videos of children.

If you would like to add to our collection of places to visit, please contact Aisha.Laher@Lancashire.gov.uk.

Activity cards and top tips

These activity cards and top tips are PDF documents. These documents are intended for printing and may not be easy for parents to use on mobile phones. You can print these activity cards for parents or you can signpost them to our parent site (share the link www.lancashire.gov.uk/childcare) where the activities are also provided as text on the web pages. The activity cards are also available to purchase - for more details check our Publications for Sale. (Walk and Talk cards)

Local places to visit

Thank you to all of the settings that have contributed to this collection of places to visit. You can download these below.

If you would like to add to our collection, please contact EarlyYearsCentre@lancashire.gov.uk.

Burnley

Chorley

Clitheroe

Fylde

Lancaster

Preston

Skelmersdale

South Ribble

West Lancashire