Swap Shop SEN Pick 'N' Mix

This week Tracy Brits (Head of English) shared some useful strategies to help students who have a range of special educational needs to progress in their learning.

In groups we were given a list of barriers to students' learning and a range of strategies. We discussed how we could match these up and we were given a handy resource to take away with us (clicking on the picture will take you to the word document)...

Click here to download the PowerPoint used today.

James Daniel (SENCO), also emailed staff a few weeks ago with a handy PowerPoint packed with strategies and tips to help dyslexic students to make progress, you can download this PowerPoint by clicking on this picture...

Please let us know if you found the session and resources useful by commenting below.

Independent Thinking and Revision Tactics

This morning Ed Thorndyke (Teacher of PE) demonstrated an activity that all teachers can adapt for their subjects. The activity required energy; it really woke us up at 8.30am and got us moving!

How to use the activity:

1. Students work in small groups for this activity.
2. They are given a large sheet with different areas to investigate. (See picture below).
3. Each topic on the sheet is colour-coded: green, blue or red (in order of difficulty).
4. Around the room there are sheets of information, which are also colour-coded. (Again, see picture below).
5. Students must then move around the room finding information, they cannot bring the sheets back with them, they must read and remember the information and add it to the sheet on their desks.

The activity worked really well and by the end of Swap Shop all of us had filled an A3 sheet with information about 'Drugs in Sport'!

This activity has the potential to be adapted in many ways. Ed explained how it could be used to develop and extend writing; in English for example, you could colour-code sentences in a way which progresses students from C-A*.

How could you use it in your subject?

Three Strategies to Help SEN Students.

This week James Daniel (Teacher of English and SENCO) shared three straightforward strategies which teachers can use to help support their SEN students. For more details click on the coloured hyper-links which will take you to the resources used in the session. To summarise:

1. We can support our students in making progress with reading by using reading comprehension as a bell/starter activity (an example of this type of activity can be found on the powerpoint)
2.  We can support students' learning in all subjects, by encouraging them to develop their memory skills. (Follow these links to find examples of activities to use in lessons or during form time... http://www.web-games-online.com/memory/    http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/brainsmart/games/objects/)
3. As a teacher, focus your attention on SEN students by marking their books first (again read more about this on the powerpoint used in today's session.)
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Please do comment below to share any additional ideas or to provide feedback of your experiences in this area...