A game I made for my small class of learners with autism. Suitable for any small group introduction - e.g. intervention group, speech and language, attention and listening. Learners throw a dice and move around the board. When they land on a question, they answer the question. I like to ask another member of the group a question relating to the answer, to encourage learners to pay attention to each other's answers - my children tend to have very little interest in each other!
Supports social skills, attention and listening, turn taking.
Used for specialist autism group but appropriate for any mainstream KS1 / KS2 group or older SEN group.
The story of 'Something Else' by Kathryn Cave and Chris Riddell all supported with Widgit Symbols
It includes a work booklet with a range of comprehension activities about the story also supported by Widgit Symbols.
17 x essential SMSC assemblies for any secondary school. These assemblies have gained excellent reviews so far and are all editable and adaptable. They are best suited to KS3 / KS4. Each one is 15-20 minutes long and is very easy to follow, with clips, stories and funny parts but also important and memorable advice for students.
Included:
Resilience Assembly
Achievement and Aspiration Assembly
Attendance Assembly
Anti-bullying Assembly
Mental Health Assembly
Behaviour Assembly
Inequality Assembly
Fake News Assembly
Brexit Assembly
Kindness Assembly
Careers Assembly
Autism Awareness Assembly
Black History Assembly
Fresh Starts Assembly
Mental Health / Exam stress assembly
End of Term Assembly
Safer Internet Day
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The intervention
Who is if for?
This Anxiety and Worries Group intervention is for a group of up to six children and is led by a teaching assistant. The focus age range would be 7 to 11, although older pupils would probably benefit from this intervention. Children who worry a lot would be a good focus group for this intervention. It runs for approximately 40-60 minutes, weekly for six weeks.
What does it cover?
This Anxiety and Worries Group intervention covers emotions, relaxation, calming down techniques and learning objectives around anxiety and worries. Children will learn about emotions during each session and will also learn relaxation and calming techniques through the ‘relaxation time’. This knowledge and these skills will help them to become more emotionally literate. The warm-up games teach a variety of skills such as co-operation, team work, taking turns, communication skills, friendship, self-esteem and confidence. The coming together of a group fosters a sense of belonging and therefore raises self-esteem. Every opportunity should be taken to promote belonging and friendship. Relaxation exercises will help children to manage their anxiety and these are visited each session.
Information on Anxieties and worries
It is important to mention that anxiety is such a big problem and affects people in different ways and at different things. Sometimes there appears to be no reason for the anxiety. This intervention is about giving children the knowledge to help themselves and to gain a little understanding about what anxiety is. It is NOT about fixing children’s problems but about supporting them through their problems. Anxiety work needs to be done by professionals who have training in counselling or psychology. An ELSA or TA can offer knowledge and support and it is important that this line is not crossed and boundaries are clear. By giving children the self-awareness, knowledge and some relaxation skills you are empowering them to help themselves cope. If you are ever worried about a child then please do refer them on to professional services so they can get the help they need.
What’s included in the pack?
A planning booklet with 6 session plans.
Circle time rules
Warm up games for circle-time
Assessments
Emotion wheels
Emotion wordmat
Certificates
Five Star Breathing poster
NEEDS to know Poster
Emotion cards
NEEDS to know cards
Anxiety physical symptoms cards
Where in your body worksheet
Anxiety cards
Coping strategies poster
Worry tree
Thought bubbles (ants)
Changing those thoughts worksheet
Zap anxiety poster
My Five a day plan
ELSA/Teaching Assistant notes
Worksheets x4 for learners to practice describing what they love about their family and why they are special.
Visual content and Widgit visuals for young people with special education needs (SEN/SEND).
A resource I made for a mixed group of ks1 / ks2 children with autism / social communication needs. Aim is to develop greater understanding of feelings and to begin to develop awareness of other's feelings, also turn taking and attention and listening.
Resource includes a feelings poster and 18 cards describing situations that have happened to an imaginary child - e.g. 'She has a wobbly tooth'.
We discuss the various feelings an how children are feeling today. Cards are placed face down and children take turns to turn cards over. They consider how the person may be feeling.
More able groups could be prompted / questioned to consider would everyone feel that way in that situation (some people can't stand having wobbly teeth, others get excited...) further developing theory of mind and understanding that people can feel differently about situations.
Now includes Andrew Tate lesson - Perfect for meeting the new PSHE Statutory guidelines, this pack has been created from the popular EC Resources PSHE lessons to match one of the new PSHE Association optional frameworks - the ‘Thematic Framework’, from their model programme builder. This is one of a variety of ways to order your PSHE content and follows the PSHE Association’s new, suggested order for content within their three categories: Living in the Wider World, Relationships and Health and Wellbeing.
PSHE Association Theme:
Summer 1 Relationships
Topic – Addressing Extremism and Radicalisation
Community cohesion and challenging extremism
**This pack is mapped against the latest DfE guidance and uses the PSHE Association Core themes (code references: R5, R6, R9, R10, R14, R28, R29, R30, R31, R34, L24, L26, L27, L28, L29) for the 2020 Requirements (Statutory Health and RSE).
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Learning Outcomes for this unit
about communities, inclusion, respect and belonging
about the Equality Act, diversity and values
about how social media may distort, mis-represent or target information in order to influence beliefs and opinions
how to manage conflicting views and misleading information
how to safely challenge discrimination, including online
how to recognise and respond to extremism and radicalisation
All lessons are editable, differentiated at least three ways so you can be Ofsted and DfE guidance-ready and ensure your pupils have the very best PSHE education. Each pack contains a variety of activities, an hour-long PowerPoint, a clip with questions, a literacy focus task, new key-term introductions, reading aloud materials, assessment opportunities, progress checkers and creative tasks.
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EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
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The 26 Emoticon/feelings cards are an ideal way to help your children to express their feelings or to recognise facial changes and read expressions. By using the ‘emoticons’ which children now understand through texting, social media and other sources, you can make an up to date version of ‘faces’ cards and children feel less conspicuous carrying them around.
Print as large cards for home/school use and in a pocket sized version on a wrist twist which easily fit into a pocket or onto a key-ring.
These cards are great for discussing how other people feel, exploring body language and facial expressions
These are also available to purchase professionally made on a keyring from my Ebay store
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This is an anger support plan resource pack for older pupils who need help with anger. Perfect for ELSA SUPPORT. The plan is a useful reminder for them and others on what they need to look out for, do, or remember when their feelings of anger get too much. The resource is aimed at upper KS2 and Secondary. The plan is meant to be worked through with an adult. When pupils are angry they need that all important one to one or small group support. Helping pupils to manage their anger is the end result of all the work you do with them. The plan must be done with the worksheet pack .
Included in the anger support plan pack
Fillable form version of the support plan – pupils can fill this in on the computer
PDF form for printing and writing out by hand
9 worksheets working through all the points on the plan
3 information sheets with examples of thought challenging questions, assertiveness script and body signs
The 9 worksheets and activities included are:
Anger triggers
Body signs
What makes anger worse?
What do I need when feeling angry?
Where is my safe place?
Questions to challenge anger
What might distract me?
Who can I talk to?
What coping strategies can I use?
Suggested benefits include:
Concentration and attention span – it is so easy to get completely engrossed in your design
Thinking skills – thinking what pattern to do next, what will look good!
Mindfulness – a sense of mindfulness and being completed absorbed in the activity
Relaxation – a true sense of relaxation as you are only thinking about your patterns
Hand eye co-ordination – speaks for itself, try it!
Self-esteem – creating something beautiful that looks amazing!
Stress relief – if you feel stressed give it a go. You will be amazed
Self soothing – it is such a soothing activity and if you feel upset or anxious it will make you feel better
Ok to make mistakes – your mistakes can be incorporated into your design
Problem solving – how can you incorporate your mistakes into your design?
Fine motor skills – making those tiny patterns
Nurturing creative abilities – allowing everyone to be creative
Expanding your imagination – let your imagination go and just create!
Creative expression – allows you to create your own design and express yourself
Great fun!
Simple to learn – each stroke of the pen or pencil is simple
No planned outcome – you don’t know yet how your design will end up.
Included in the pack:
35 shapes all sectioned off
32 of those shapes all blank for pupils to section off
26 Letters of the alphabet sectioned off
26 Letters of the alphabet left blank for pupil to section off
This FRIENDSHIP intervention planning resource pack is ready to go. Just print and deliver!
This pack is suitable for WHOLE CLASS as well as group work. If there are teachers out there who have children who just don’t get along then try running this as an intervention during PSHE time. Each lesson will take approximately 40 minutes to an hour.
It is perfect for an ELSA or teaching assistant who has to work with a group of children with friendship issues.
Included in this pack:
FRIENDS certificates (children colour in a letter after each lesson and take them away at the end of the intervention).
7 planning sessions which could be done over several weeks.
40 positive friendship cards
The Key to deserving good friends worksheet
Five posters looking at skills for empathy.
Skills for empathy bookmarks for the children to take away
A ‘Friend’ venn worksheet.
Heart friends template
How to apologise bookmark for the children to take away after the lesson.
This beautiful lesson could also be used for a meaningful and special assembly by making minor edits to the PowerPoint.
Designed to fit with "good to be me" style units but can be used for many areas of PSHE/SEAL as the lesson teaches how to develop self-esteem whilst also maintaining emotional balance by being aware of and identifying areas of personal development.
All made memorable through an innovative teaching and learning approach that could help children maintain positive self-esteem for the rest of their lives.
Suitable for all ages but designed for KS2 (ages 7-11).
Contains PowerPoint with two part starter, complete teaching input, BBC video link and plenary plus 2 worksheet based activities.
Lesson length 1 hour.
All images either sourced from openclipart.org or owned by tftf.
This unit of work is several weeks for your TA to deliver for a small group of pupils. I have written it for children who need to develop friendships and friendship skills. I hope you find it useful. A TA can pick this up with no explanation or support and should be able to deliver with just an hour or so to familiarise herself, print resources etc. I have also made a game in case your school doesn't have friendship type games. Enjoy your weekend. I hope it saved you some time and energy and that your children learn some friendship and social skills.
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Secret Mission cards for the whole class. Children can ‘lucky dip’ them in the mornings or you can give them out in a targeted way. Laminate them and children can tick them with a dry wipe pen to show they have accomplished them.
Use them for whole class team building sessions with a prize at the end - house points?
Great feedback from these - children feel empowered to do something positive in a fun way.
Express yourself Art Doodling is a series of prompts for drawing. Children get so much from drawing. It is a way of self expression and self exploration. Children relax when drawing and are much more open to talking about their feelings.
This booklet can be printed as A4 and stapled together or as A3 to give children more room for drawing. You could also just dip into the sheets and print the one you want to use. You could use the same sheet for the whole group or whole class of children. The booklet has purposely been created in black and white so as not to distract from the child’s drawings and of course to save printing costs.
There are 40 activities in the booklet covering so many aspects of emotional literacy.
I am sure children will get a lot out of the booklet and it will give you valuable information about their thoughts and feelings. It can also be used as a ready made lesson plan for one to one work or group work.
Please ensure you use ADOBE to open PDFs because this will give you great options for printing.
These Flipbooks are brilliant for working with children. Each flipbook concentrates on different areas.
Included in the pack
18 emotion books which use our senses to describe each emotion
An ‘About me’ book
3 books dealing with negative feelings such as anger, anxiety and sadness
A book dealing with ‘Restorative Practice’
A book on increasing happiness
24 flipbooks all together.
A small version of the visual timetable for your whiteboard or other display with lots of different options for you to choose from.
Includes all usual curriculum stuff but also; book talk, SEAL, maths and literacy activities, joke time, news time - all stuff I'm planning on squeezing in.
Lunch and break are in different colours to break up the display.
I mounted them on another colour and then laminated. They look really effective and don't take up too much room on the board.
Hope someone finds them useful as well.
A behaviour and consequences flow chart that you can use after an event with pupils to discuss what they did and what they could have done. I find this useful in that it encourages SEND pupils, including children with Autism, a logical approach to explaining an emotional reaction. I allow children to draw their answers if they’re not comfortable in writing them.
I have used this in detention so that pupils are at least thinking about why they’re suffering consequences - because of their own choices.
PowerPoint presentation on the rationale behind our decision to ensure all children contribute to their Annual Review through a the use of video, embedded in a multimedia presentation. Also covers the strategies we used to introduce it. More about it here: http://www.switchitmaker2.com/reviews/reviewscoming.htm#willow
Although we used Switch It Maker 2 for our presentations, you could use any presentation software: PowerPoint, Windows Movie Maker, iMovie, Prezzi, etc.
The idea behind this resource is for a young person to develop their resilience. In order to do this, it is important for them to be able to identify what they are good at - especially if they have low self confidence.
There are a number of different categories, with simple skills or qualities listed within them. The idea is that the student reads the statements and decides if it is something they can do. We also included a ‘working on’ box, so they can perhaps help to come up with their own targets for IEPs or EHCPs.
There is a slightly more complex table where a student can decide if it’s something they try to do, can do or like to do. We have differentiated the statements into two levels; simple statements with visuals; and more complex statements, which do not have visuals.
This activity was made by the Sensory Trust - we have lots of other free resources on our website.
