Creative Play with a Pinch of Salt
Introduction to the Project Team
Paula Hopkins C.Psychol.
Senior Educational Psychologist and Service Manager
Melanie Carte BSc (Hons)
Senior Speech and Language Therapist and Service Manager
Madalaine Nicol BSc (Hons), MSc
Lead Assistant Psychologist
Molly McElligott
Psychological Service Assistant
Hannah Holding
Psychological Service Assistant
Introduction to the ‘Creative Play with a Pinch of SALT Programme’
Creative Play with a Pinch of SALT is a programme designed by EPIC with generous funding from the Laurel Trust. Informed by the Solihull Approach (endorsed by NICE guidelines) and work by Margot Sunderland (2016), EPIC have worked collaboratively with Educational Psychology and Speech and Language therapy to develop a parent-child programme and class programme using ‘creative play’ to target relationship building and language development.
The Creative Play Journey provides quality time for classrooms, parents and children to take part in fun and creative activities designed to transport them together into a world of sensation, imagination, wonder, delight and shared laughter.
The programmes aim to achieve the following outcomes:
- Help to build positive relationships with children and between children through ‘creative play’, to improve mental health and wellbeing
- Help parents and adults to model and facilitate quality language and communication to improve child development
- Reduce the risk of mental health difficulties amongst children, to improve educational achievement and life chances
Training Video: Creative Play with a Pinch of SALT Programme
The recorded training video below explains the underlying psychological and speech and language principles of the programme. Please ensure any staff member wishing to run the programme watches this training. As this video was recorded in the context of the project, project logistics and ‘group rules’ are touched upon. You do not need to enforce these; however, the content of the training is necessary for the successful running of the programme.
The Programme
As a fully qualified Team EPIC is able to offer supervision for those in roles within school that require this support such as ELSAs.
If you require this support for a member of staff please contact info@epicleics.com for further details.
