Save money. SEN settings spend a huge amount of their budget on supply staff, especially on agency fees. SEN settings make up around 4.5% of all schools and settings in England, but account for 13.5% of total supply staff spend across all settings. We completely understand why this happens. The high needs of the [...]
In the last of our seven part series we look at sports day and how you can involve everyone. Take a look at our other blogs on Sensory Stories – Why are they so awesome?, PECs – The six steps and how to make it fun, SCERTS approach made easy!, Attention Autism – Are we offering [...]
In the sixth part of our seven part series we look at why sensory stories are so awesome and how you can use them in your classroom. Take a look at our other blogs on PECs – The six steps and how to make it fun, SCERTS approach made easy!, Attention Autism – Are we offering an [...]
In the fourth part of our seven part series we explore the fun with food food programme and look at how to establish a fun food ladder that is student led. Take a look at our other blogs on PECs – The six steps and how to make it fun, SCERTS approach made easy! and Attention [...]
In the third part of our seven part series we take a look at Attention Autism and explore some motivating, Gina Davis inspired little group activities that can be tailored for all age groups. Take a look at our other blogs on PECs – The six steps and how to make it fun and [...]
Let me start with a confession: for the past few years, I’ve felt like something of a fraud. In spite of my open endorsement of teachers becoming better informed about educational research, I’d never attended a ResearchED event. Sandbagged with shame I decided enough was enough and made the pilgrimage up north to Birmingham for [...]
Part way through writing this week's chapter of our anthology on teacher stress, I came across a post on the Derby University blog that expressed all I had in mind - except with more insight and erudition than I can quite manage. So with their permission, we have a guest post from Dr Sarah Charles and [...]
Pre-pandemic, every time stress in teaching came up in the press, the same claims about causes were fired off: Workload – rigorous marking policies, the relentless need to document all decisions, differentiating for all learners in planning as well as endless data entry Correspondingly long working hours, much of which is unpaid Greatly increased top-down [...]
