Useful suggestions for staff on how best to support SEN pupils within Science specific lessons. Can be used as a planning tool or guidelines for formative assessment. Strategies are grouped into the following broad areas of need for ease of reference: Communication and Interaction Cognitive and Learning Sensory and Physical Social, Emotional and Mental Health

This PPT training module with focus on how to support students with ADHD. Supporting neurodivergent students in the classroom is crucial for creating an inclusive and equitable learning environment. Neurodivergent individuals, such as those with autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), dyslexia, and other conditions, possess unique cognitive abilities and learning styles that may differ from neurotypical students. Here are several reasons why it is important to provide support and differentiation for neurodivergent students: Inclusion and Equity: Every student deserves an equal opportunity to learn and thrive in the classroom. By supporting neurodivergent students, we promote inclusivity and ensure that their diverse needs are met. It helps create an environment where all students feel valued, respected, and included, leading to improved self-esteem and overall well-being. Individualised Learning: Neurodivergent students often require individualized approaches to learning. Implementing differentiation strategies allows educators to tailor instruction and assessments to meet the unique needs and strengths of each student. By accommodating diverse learning styles, educators can enhance engagement, comprehension, and academic success for neurodivergent students. Academic Achievement: Providing appropriate support for neurodivergent students enhances their academic achievement. Neurodivergent individuals may have strengths in areas such as creativity, problem-solving, pattern recognition, or attention to detail. By recognizing and nurturing these strengths, educators can help neurodivergent students excel in their areas of expertise while also addressing any challenges they may face. Social and Emotional Development: Supporting neurodivergent students positively impacts their social and emotional development. By fostering an inclusive classroom environment, students learn empathy, tolerance, and respect for neurodiversity. Additionally, tailored support helps neurodivergent students develop self-advocacy skills, self-regulation strategies, and coping mechanisms, which are essential for their overall well-being and successful integration into society. Enhanced Classroom Environment: Supporting neurodivergent students benefits the entire classroom community. Implementing differentiation strategies encourages flexible and creative teaching methods that can benefit all students. It fosters a culture of acceptance, respect, and understanding, where all students learn to appreciate and celebrate diversity. This training with focus on supporting students with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. By the end of this training you should be able to: Define Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Recall the symptoms of inattention Recall the symptoms of Hyperactivity and impulsivity Apply effective strategies to support students with ADHD

Resource from ELSA SUPPORT Print out the skin tone that you require. This resource has five different skin tones to suit all children. There are also 15 different sets of eyes and mouths and a set of emotions vocabulary flash cards. Laminate all the pieces and keep in a zipped bag for convenience. The aim of this resource is for children to begin to recognise facial expressions and talk about their feelings. It is excellent for children on the autistic spectrum. This resource is also very good for early years settings and can be put into an area of provision, allowing children to experiment and make different faces. Can they match the eyes to the mouth? Can they tell you what the expression is that they have made? Parents would also find this resource helpful for their preschool children. Questions you could ask – can you make me a ‘angry face’? What would ‘angry’ eyes look like? What would ‘sad’ eyes look like? Can you make me a ‘sad face’? Also use other vocabulary such as ‘miserable, frustrated, terrified, proud’. There are so many possibilities for working with this resource. The cards could be used as a matching pairs game. Lay out all the cards and ask a child to choose a mouth and eyes that match – name the emotion. Use the face (laminated) for drawing emotion faces. Put it alongside a mirror so children can make faces themselves. Use the angry eyes and mouth to discuss anger and how to recognise when they are becoming angry. What makes them angry? What could they do when they are angry? Pick an emotions flashcard(included with the pack) and make the appropriate face.

A sensory ladder can be used in conjunction with Zones of Regulation or as a separate resource. Use this resource to support children in understanding their sensory needs and enhance their independence in regulating their emotion and sensory needs. Within the resource: advice on how to use and create sensory ladders overview of a sensory ladder prompt questions to use when designing the ladder with your young person.

Exploring the EEF guidance on High quality teaching approaches for learners with SEND and applying them to daily practice. Staff Meeting / CPD / Teacher Training Includes a short video, tasks, research summary and reflections

A yearly flowchart to guide teachers and staff with process of SEN support for pupils.

Printable (real photo) symbol cards with foods and drinks to support choice making at snack time or lunch time or to support cooking activities. These symbol cards have real photo and text and have blank sheets for adding your own. PDF and editable Powerpoint available. These also come with large Boardmaker visuals for ‘days of the week’ and ‘snack’ if you wanted to make a display/menu/choice board. Current font is Comic Sans but could be easily edited.

Strategies to support SEND children in PE in the four areas of need

Need a Pastoral Support Plan (PSP) Template that is different from your Individual Education Plans? This PSP template will ensure all pupils in receipt of pastoral support can be tracked and monitored. Easy for any member of staff to complete! Includes: Key details about the pupil, including outside agency involvement Highlights strengths and difficulties Details provision in place and who provides this Space to review the impact of support in line with Assess, Plan, Do, Review cycle

An example of a plan to support self regulation and risk assessment. I use this template to ensure staff can access information for an individual pupil to support behaviour management and keep consistancy of approaches. An example of a completed one is first and the blank template is at the end

It is often recommended that schools implement an approach based on zones of regulation with students to support them in developing better self-regulation skills. This poster set has 3 versions of a 4-zone chart to help students identify how they are feeling. The first is the usual style of poster with feelings zones and suggested strategies that might help if you are feeling that way. However, often the students who most need this approach are those who struggle to identify and name their feelings. They are also those who are presenting with the most challenging dis-regulated behaviours in school. To help those students – there are two further posters which have an additional layer of information. They list what the student might be doing because of their feelings to help make it easier for them to be guided to select appropriate strategies. Take a look at the booklet in my shop if you would like more resources and support to implement supported self-regulation.

A Positive Behaviour Support Plan (PBSP) is an individualized plan that focuses on understanding, preventing, and responding to challenging behaviour in the school setting. The plan is developed by the school, parents, and other relevant professionals, and is tailored to the individual student’s needs. A PBSP includes strategies to help the student better understand and manage his or her behaviour in the school setting, as well as strategies to support the student’s positive behaviour.

This booklet gives information about dyslexia and how teachers and teaching assistants can support student's within the classroom. The booklet includes: - A quiz to show understanding - Explains what dyslexia is and why its important to identify - How it effects reading and writing, amongst other information

This powerpoint covers the whole of learning aim A content, includes homework and class tasks - useful when completing assignment (P1, P2, M1, M2 & D1).

A ‘cheat sheet’ for dyslexia. Includes a brief description, indicators of this learning need, and strategies for support. Useful for all school staff. Can be printed and stuck into diaries, CPD journals.

This EBSA workbook School difficulties has been created with valuable help from the members of the ELSA Support Facebook Group who provided some of the difficulties their pupils face. It relies on real life situations that pupils have found difficult about coming to school. ELSAs are often on the front line trying to help pupils back into school and to work on their difficulties. The booklet is aimed from Year 3 to Year 6 but could also be used with Year 2 with support. We also have EBSA workbook school thoughts and feelings and EBSA Workbook Coping with school worries on the website. EBSA is Emotionally based school avoidance. Pupils who struggle to come to school or are non attenders. This might have an emotional cause or a mental health cause. The activity consists of a sorting board, cards with suggestions, cards for pupils to write their own, an exploration board, a feelings board with scales and changes and what they want to happen to make things feel ok. This activity will help pupils to identify what is bothering them at school and how to reduce that feeling by changing the situation. Start by printing out the base board and cutting up the cards. Print out a blank sheet so the pupil can add their own if they want to. Help the pupil sort the cards between things that are ok, things they are unsure of and things that are not ok. Once you have done that choose one of the things that are not ok and look at it further. Help the pupil break it down to see if you can find out what the actual issue is. Example might be ‘seating plan’ that is not ok. What is it about the seating plan that is not ok? Is it that they are sitting next to someone they don’t like? Perhaps they can’t hear the teacher? Perhaps they are uncomfortable and there might be a draft or a bright light bothering them. They might prefer to be sitting with a friend. Perhaps someone copies off them or talks to them and they don’t like that. Try and help the pupil to break down the difficulty. Once they have the root cause of their difficulty, help them to identify how it makes them feel. Can they put a name to that feeling? How big is that feeling? There is a sheet for pupil voice to say what changes need to happen for them to be ok. They can write it or you can write it for them and they can tell you what needs to change. There is also a daily sheet for pupils to write down anything that they think of or that crops up for them. There are also some additional supporting resources included in the pack This is the first workbook in the EBSA Workbook Range.

Stress This resource is about stress and coping strategies. Some stress can be good because it can actually encourage and motivate you to work harder. When you get too much stress it can make you feel overwhelmed. Finding a balance is key to managing stress. Stress bucket The bucket is a metaphor for the body and the water is a metaphor for stress and coping strategies. This resource will lead the child through making a stress bucket and learning how to use it. Levels of stress Depending on the person, the level of water in the bucket may already be high due to past experiences. Stress entering the body isn’t necessarily filling up an empty bucket. It is adding to what is already there. Every day stressors can soon overflow the bucket. There are always people and children who blow up over the slightest thing and this is probably because their stress is quite high all of the time. Turning on the tap Turning the tap on is a metaphor for letting out the stress and the best way to do this is through coping strategies. Coping strategies can be anything that the calms the person down from ‘calming breathing’ to ‘having a run’. It might also be things they enjoy doing, something that makes them feel happy. It can be individual to the person on what works for them. What relieves their stress? Included in the pack Stress scales. These could be used as bookmarks and taken away. A4 poster that could be stuck to the wall as a reminder 24 additional supporting worksheets An A4 bucket and pocket – pupils can put their stress INTO the bucket by using the pocket Cloud and water for the craft Different sizes of water droplets Information sheets including examples of stressors, de-stressing ideas, physical body signs, and how it affects emotions and behaviour

A resource pack produced using Widgit symbols. These can be used as starter activities for a main lesson; as 1-1 resources when supporting learners to understand feelings/emotions; for intervention sessions or to use as a basis for lessons for learners with SEND. It includes the following resources: Emotions Bingo Match the feeling to the situation – simple situation that require learner to draw a line or cut and stick scenarios to feelings Things to do when I feel angry, anxious, stressed – an activity with choices for the learner to select when feeling angry, anxious or stressed. 1 has 6 choices, the other has 10 choices. Each have a blank sheet for adding own choices Social Story Anger Social Story Anxiety and Worry Anger board game – good and bad choices when feeling angry Emotions dominoes Emotions bingo Sets of flashcards in easy, medium and hard Matching pair game Odd one out – identifying the wrong expression from a choice Thermometers/Scale to use as visuals for feelings

This is a friendship potion activity for young children. It is visually appealing with clear images to help the pupils understand the words. Make up the cauldron and bin with the pockets. Cut out and laminate the bubble circles. Simply help the pupil sort out those good qualities for a friend and put them into the cauldron to make their friendship potion. All the others go into the bin. Discuss each bubble as you look at it to ensure understanding and relate to the pupil’s experience where possible. When you have finished the sorting activity ask the pupil to decorate the body shape to look like a friend and put all the bubbles around the body shape to reinforce ‘What makes a good friend’. Included in the friendship potion activity pack: Cauldron with pocket Bin with pocket 18 positive bubbles for friendship 18 negative bubbles for friendship Body sheet

This self-care potion activity is a fun and engaging for pupils to look at all the things that help with their self-care. There are two potion bottles to choose from. Print out a bottle and print out the pocket. Cut them out carefully and stick the pocket to the bottle. Print out and cut out some of the droplets of potion. Firstly go through the list with the pupil and get them to write their ideas on one of the sheets. They can add any others not on the list here too. When they have a decent amount they can then fill in their droplets and add them to the pocket of the potion bottle. If they aren’t too keen on all the writing they can go straight to filling in the droplets with prompting from you, using the self-care list. You know your pupils so do what you think is best. Suitable for practically all age groups. Included in the pack: 2 different potion bottles Pocket label for the bottles List of self-care ideas 3 different sheets for pupils to record ideas first 8 coloured potion droplets All available in black and white too This is their recipe for self-care.