NELI Intervention and NELI Training
NELI - the Nuffield Early Learning Intervention
- Our member of staff delivering the programme is absent for several weeks, can we pause the programme?
- Why focus on oral language skills and why NELI?
- Which staff are involved in NELI?
- Can the NELI sessions be delivered remotely?
- What is the NELI programme timeline?
- Can we deliver more NELI sessions each week to finish the intervention in less than 20 weeks?
- Who should we nominate as our NELI lead? What is their role?
- What are the NELI sessions like and how are they structured?
- How can NELI be best used to meet different children’s needs?
- How do we work out how many NELI kits we might need?
- Can schools use their catch-up premium to pay for staff time to deliver NELI?
- What is the NELI Resource Kit?
- We won't be able to complete all 20 weeks of the NELI before the end of the summer term. What do we do?
- Is there DfE funding for the NELI programme?
- We are new to NELI, how do we sign-up for the programme?
- What is NELI? Who is it for?
- What is the evidence that shows NELI could work for my pupils?
- We are about to start delivering the NELI intervention. What are our first steps?
- Is there a Quick Guide to starting the NELI programme?
- Due to staff or pupil absences, we’ve missed a few NELI sessions, what is best to do next?
- How much time does NELI take to deliver?
- A pupil in our NELI group has been absent, should they join the next group session? How do I catch them up?
- How does NELI fit in with my phonics programmes, will it conflict?
- What other resources are needed to deliver NELI effectively?
- Can two members of staff share delivery of NELI?
- How do we nominate a new NELI lead for our school?
Downloadable Elements of NELI Resource Kits
- NELI Envelope Labels
- NELI Certificate of Achievement
- Best Listener Badges
- Part 2 Letterboard
- Example Individual Session Record Sheets
- Record Sheet: Attitude and Behaviour
- NELI Group Session Sticker Chart
- NELI Timetable
- Flash Card Samples
- Days of the Week Labels
- Best Listener Board
- Story Elements
- Bridging lesson plan (if continuing NELI into the following school year)
- Part 2 Progress Assessment: Taught Letter Sounds
- Visual Timetable of Session Elements
- Example Group Session Record Sheets
- Involving parents and carers in NELI
- Best Listener Stickers
- Part 1 Session 22 Sound Effects
- Record Sheet: Individual Sessions - Part 1 and Part 2
- Days of the Week Board
- "Where to Find" Directory from NELI Courses
- Record Sheet: Group Sessions - Part 1 and Part 2
- Ted's Listening Rules
- See the Narrative progress NELI children make
- Record Sheet: Assessment for Narrative Speech and Grammar
Identifying pupils to receive NELI
- How can we best select which pupils receive NELI?
- How can we keep parents informed about the progress of children in the NELI programme?
- How many pupils can participate?
- Can we deliver NELI in other year groups at the same time?
- We have a child with SEN/EAL in our class, can we include them?
- Should we send a letter to parents explaining about NELI and LanguageScreen?
- The children identified to receive NELI are already receiving SaLT support/intervention – can they do both?
- We would like to use a different assessment programme (not LanguageScreen)
NELI Training on the FutureLearn platform
- When can we start the training?
- How do we register for NELI training?
- Our class teachers and teaching assistants job-share, can we sign them both up for the training?
- How do we join the training?
- Can we train a new member of staff to deliver the NELI programme (e.g., to replace someone who is absent)?
- What if a staff member does not have a school email address?
- How long does the training take? When do I need to complete the different aspects of the training?
- What does the training involve? Who needs to be trained?
- How do we request additional staff to be trained?
- How do we work out how many staff we would like to access training?