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Engage With Your Pupils Emotionally – The Benefits Could Be Huge There’s no quick fix when it comes to engaging emotionally with children and parents, but making the effort, like staff at Water Hall Primary School, can pay real dividends, says Jacob Stow...

Dealing With Dyspraxia - What To Do When ‘Doing’ Is Difficult Could those outward signs of clumsiness point to dyspraxia, and if so, how should teachers respond? Veronica Bidwell takes a closer look…

What Should Schools do when LA Services Disappear? With local authority services continuing to be scaled back, Professor Sonia Blandford looks at how schools can plug the gap by liaising with external agencies…

How Should You Respond To Physically Aggressive Pupils? Paul Dix looks at how to plan for shifting fears, sensory explosions and the other forms of unpredictable behaviour that aggression can take…

What The Bio-Psycho-Social Approach Can Do For Learners With SEMH Difficulties Oliver Kendall explains why schools need to take a multi-pronged approach when supporting pupils with social, emotional and mental health difficulties

Why Test For Failure? Let’s Assess For Success Post-Rochford Review, asks Jackie Ward, will pupils with SEND finally be seen for what they can do, and not just what they can’t?

What Can A Specialist Setting Teach Primaries About SEND Provision? It might be a well-resourced specialist setting, but Westmorland School can still teach mainstream primaries a great deal, as Sal McKeown discovers...

We Must Change How We Support Pupils With A History Of Trauma If we’re to properly support children from traumatic backgrounds when they’re in school, we need to see a major change in our learning culture, argues Nicola Marshall…

How Can Schools Benefit From Occupational Therapy? Could occupational therapy have a useful role to play in your school’s SEN provision? Student therapist Kerri Schubert recalls the impact of her work placement at Topcliffe Primary School, Birmingham...

In Search Of The Male SENCo Male SENCos tend to approach the job differently to their female counterparts, says Dr Mark Pulsford – and if we care about gender equality, we might want to start looking at why…

Primary Schools Need To Introduce Pupil Passports – Here’s Why Ensuring that parents and school staff are on the same page regarding a child’s needs would be much easier with Pupil Passports, says Victoria Hill...

Rory Bremner On Living With ADHD – “A Lot Of Mind-Wandering Goes On” Impressionist Rory Bremner reflects on being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and how the condition’s proved to be both friend and foe...

Is There Such A Thing As ‘No Excuses’ Inclusion? Can a school that maintains certain expectations, no matter what, still call itself inclusive? Loic Menzies tries to unpack the contradictions…

A Penny For Your Thoughts – KS1/KS2 Lesson Plan For Teaching Currency To Learners With SEND Teach one of the most vital life skills there is – how to handle money – in a way that’s engaging and well-suited to learners with SEND, with the help of this lesson plan by Kate Bradley.

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Autism social skills – Board games lesson plan A regular autism social skills group themed around board games can be highly effective for helping autistic pupils develop this important skill. It’s important that we don’t try and make an autistic child ‘conform’ or socialise in situations that they clearly find overwhelming and uncomfortable. What we can do, however, is bring children together in […]

How To Solve A Problem Like Billie – A Show-Off With An Attitude, And A Chaotic Home Life "All students need teachers who are fair and consistent, especially those with difficult home lives"

Parents Vs Providers – When Opinions Differ On The Best Way To Care For Children Conflict Can And Should Be Avoided Sometimes families and providers clash, and in these cases it’s better for all involved to part ways

KS2 Literacy – Writing A Haiku Resource Pack For Teachers This fantastic new resource from Nosy Crow and The British Museum, which comes from the book Origami, Poems and Pictures, teaches KS2 students how to write a haiku. There’s an introduction, lesson objectives, six tasks and a competition where children can submit their completed poems. Download contents: 1 x PDF resource

Want To Engage Young People In STEM Subjects? You Need To Start Getting Personal How to boost your students' science capital

SPaG – Why are some teachers lacking confidence when teaching primary spelling, punctuation and grammar "I can’t remember being taught much grammar until I took a course in ‘Use of English’ at 17 years old"...

Teach Shakespeare Across The Curriculum With 12 Amazing Activities To Rocket-Boost Learning According to scientists, simply reading Shakespeare’s words can boost our brainpower – so why not make use of that in every subject?

Historical objects – How to use them to encourage curiosity, creativity and conversation Investigating a single artefact can provide the powerful opportunity for your pupils to engage almost all their senses

How To Cram More Vocabulary And Comprehension Into The School Day Broadening a child’s vocabulary won’t just help them pass a test, it will also enrich their life, says Jane Andrews…

It’s Time We Stretched Children With More Challenging Reading Texts If we want children to become confident, competent life-long readers, we need to give them access to texts that stretch them, says James Clements…

7 grammar gremlins that you’re passing on to pupils A devil-may-care approach to the English language may bring charm to personal communications but could seriously hurt your students’ marks, says Anna Blewett...

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