You will notice that SALLEY has “recurrent themes” as one of its major plus points.

The SALLEY programme runs over 100 days or sessions. However because we wanted to be certain that children had indeed acquired all the skills they needed, the programme has what you might call “revision” opportunities built in. We do not for example introduce a new concept, practice it and then move on. It is practised in lots of different ways and then revisited through a range of multisensory activities. Therefore, children are given lots of opportunities for learning. SALLEY has been used in a wide range of settings and this has not proved to be a problem.

It has been tackled in different ways depending on the age group.

One pre school grouped children by the day they attended and ran the 100 days, using those days. They started younger (they took children from 2;6 rather than just in the year before school entry) to fit all the days in but had excellent outcomes. Another setting, using the programme in a mixed reception/ year one class, ran SALLEY three times a week (due to staffing issues). They divided the programme up to do more than one days worth of activities on one day. As SALLEY offers a range of activities on any given day, the children saw it as an additional couple of games, that were fun to do. Again they had excellent outcomes.