No Pens Day Wednesday encourages schools and settings to put down their pens and to run a day of speaking and listening activities.
This year’s No Pens Day Wednesday will take place on Wednesday 4th October 2017.
No Pens Day Wednesday 2016 reached a total of over 5,700 schools and settings who had signed up to take part in the event since it started in 2011.
What schools who took part in 2016 said…
- 83% of respondents said that taking part in No Pens Day Wednesday 2016 raised their awareness of speech, language and communication needs
- 95% said they’d do things differently around school as a result of their involvement
- 25% of respondents they had identified pupils who were struggling with spoken language that they’d not known about before.
