SEND

Tickets £35, with discounts for groups and for alliance schools

ADHD is caused by physical differences in the brain that have far reaching effects on a young person’s ability to successfully engage with their education. This session will explore what is really going on for people with ADHD and what we can do to enable young people with ADHD make academic and social progress. This session will give you practical strategis that you can use straight away and that you can share with your colleagues to make learning even better in your setting.

Boost funding available for BCP Schools. Attention at both afternoons is essential

The PEIC-D approach revisits early interaction skills such as imitation, turn-taking and interaction. These skills are often poorly developed in children with severe and/or complex learning difficulties, including autistic spectrum disorders.By working through a series of steps, using game formats, the child learns to watch others' play, join in, and then take part in turn taking sequences. Later stages include learning to initiate games, and negotiating the rules.

A workshop that will be run by Lizzie Wilson from Diverse Abilities that will include;

Developmental Milestones

• Advice for Pre handwriting activities to develop skills Identifying causes of handwriting difficultes
• Practical activities to support with fine motor skills and handwriting
• What is visual perception and how does it impact learning. 

The good autism practice training has been designed to support all practitioners working directly with pupils on the autism spectrum to develop their practice.This session is suitable for practitioners working with school-age pupils on the autism spectrum in both mainstream and specialist services.

This training will take plae over 2 x half day sessions. Attendance at both sessins is essential. 

Boost funding available for BCP School

During this session, participants will learn:

• how speech sounds are made,

• how children typically acquire speech sounds

• strategies and therapy activities which can be used in order to help children who have speech difficulties. 

Writing Skills workshop for reluctant writers

Primary version

This interactive and hands-on workshop focusses on strategies to support reluctant writers to get their ideas down on paper through fiction and non-fiction . The strategies will reduce cognitive overload and provide practical solutions to address the three key reasons why writing can be so difficult for some learners.

Tickets £35, with discounts for groups and for alliance schools

Autistic spectrum conditions affect so many aspects of how a young person engages with school, their peers and teachers, and the process of learning. In this session we will explore what it means to have an autistic spectrum disorder and how high levels of anxiety cause huge barriers to progress and what we as individuals and whole schools can do about this.

This twilight session will further your knowledge of:

• the range of autistic spectrum conditions and associated behaviours
• Practical strategies to reduce anxiety and enable learning

You will also receive information resources to share with colleagues to maximise the impact of this training in your setting.

This interactive and hands-on workshop focusses on strategies to support reluctant writers to get their ideas down on paper in a range of subject settings and a range of genre, including report/recount, discussion/persuasion and fiction . The strategies will reduce cognitive overload and provide practical solutions to address the three key reasons why writing can be so difficult for some learners. 

This training will enable delegates to explore the use of a number of assessments that can be administered by teachers and teaching assistants both to develop a more precise understanding of a pupil’s language difficulties and to inform the full diagnostic process.

The tests examined will include non-word reading and short-term memory tests. In addition delegates will be shown how to use a test of phonological skills that they can readily use in schools.

This training will build upon the course offered by the Teaching School in February.

This course scored 9.2 out of 10 last year

“Really useful and lots of 
practical applications.”

This termly network provide an opportunity for SENCos and other senior leaders from mainstream and special schools and colleges with responsibilities for vulnerable learners to meet, share ideas and hear the latest local, regional and national information and statutory requirements. There will be a focus on provision and outcomes for learners with special educational needs, disabilities and other vulnerabilities.

(These networks are funded through Linwood Teaching School Alliance. Pre-booking is required)