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Yes @ Areté Learning Trust provides Regional Training with National Speakers. Our training on different aspects of supporting students with Specific Learning Differences will be available throughout the year. Listings of planned training are constantly updated.

10% discount on training events available through our affiliate membership scheme. Please see below for further details.

YES@ Areté Learning Trust - Understanding Specific Learning Differences Support

Here at YES @ Areté Learning Trust we strive to promote an understanding of Specific Learning Differences in order to support students/pupils, parents and professionals.

We focus on:

  • the early identification of children and young people’s needs and early intervention to support them.
  • the development of inclusive practice in order to remove
  • barriers to learning.
  • the provision of high-quality training.

 

We offer:

  • support with developing inclusive practice in different settings.
  • solution focused meetings with school staff, parents and
  • pupils to identify barriers to learning.
  • analysis of current provision focusing on impact, individual
  • pupil assessment with comprehensive reporting.
  • support with planning and the delivery of personalised
  • literacy and numeracy programmes.
  • progress reviews in person or by telephone.
  • access arrangements for external exams for KS4 and KS5.

 

We believe that the relationship between schools, professionals and parents is incredibly important, which is why we promote a ‘Parents as Partners’ ethos.

The SEND Code of Practice places great importance on involving parents and children in identifying, understanding and taking decisions about special educational needs. We work with parents, recognising the importance of neurodiversity, to create unique pupil profiles.

For parents be at the heart of decision making about their child, it is helpful for them to be fully informed about their child’s needs.

We liaise with a number of parents support group and offer:

  • bespoke support.
  • workshops, meetings and specialist information sharing.
  • reduced rates on all our training events for parents/carers.

 

For further details and to provide you with a quote please email yes@arete.uk.

YES@ Areté Learning Trust - Whole School Training

Supporting Young People to Feel Calm, Focused and Ready to Learn

Concious Breathing Training

Conscious breathing is a simple yet powerful wellbeing practice that helps children and young people develop greater calm, focus and emotional resilience. It also provides teachers and school staff with practical tools to support their own wellbeing and create a positive learning environment.

Suitable for pupils of all ages, this evidence-informed training explores accessible breathing techniques that can be easily integrated into the school day to support physical, mental and emotional health.

Training Facilitator:
Steffy Cappleman, SOMA Breath Transformational Coach & Oxygen Advantage Functional Breathing Instructor

Cost:
£225 + VAT, plus travel expenses

Delivery:
Training is delivered after school at a time that is convenient for your team.

To find out more or to arrange a training session, please email yes@arete.uk.

Poor Attention & Concentration! Is it a sensory issue?

Resources, strategies and interventions that can be used to alleviate the distress caused by an out-of-synch sensory system, teaching self-regulation where this is appropriate.

Poor Attention & Concentration! Is it a sensory issue?

Friday, 15th March 2024
9.30am - 3.00pm

Summary of the event:

An increasing number of children find it difficult to concentrate and attend in a typically, stimulating classroom environment.

The behaviours that children use to help them focus will often be disruptive in that they will fidget, wriggle, wander, bump and shuffle, which not only restrict their own learning potential, but disrupt and distract other class members, causing antagonism and alienation.

We will explore whether these disruptive strategies have a sensory basis and explore how we can modify these methods to help children regulate their own arousal and alertness levels. The principles are based on Sensory Integration and the Alert Programme for self-regulation (Williams & Shellenberger, 1996).

We will suggest resources, strategies and interventions that can be used to alleviate the distress caused by an out-of-synch sensory system, teaching self-regulation where this is appropriate.

Learning Outcomes

  • To understand how sensory differences can impact on attention/concentration in the classroom.
  • To utilise theories of sensory Integration to explain this imbalance.
  • To recommend resources, strategies and interventions that can be used to alleviate the distress caused by an out-of-synch sensory system. How to improve concentration and attention processing differences.

Every delegate will receive Lois Addy’s book ‘How to Support Children with Sensory Processing’.

Training led by: Lois Addy

Lois Addy is an independent SEND advisor and lecturer, teaching both nationally and internationally.  She was previously the Lead for Cognition and Learning for North Yorkshire County Council, and formerly lectured at York St John University and York University. She has qualifications in occupational therapy, psychology and education, and has over 41 years’ experience in working with children with SEN. Lois is co-author of the Write from the Start; Perceptual-Motor Handwriting Programme, and Making Inclusion Work for Children with Dyspraxia: Practical Strategies for Teachers. She is author of the Speed-Up! kinaesthetic handwriting programme, Write Said Ted (pre-school handwriting programme), How to Understand and Support children with Dyspraxia’, Get Physical!’ (a Physical Education programme, which won the TES/NASEN Teaching and Learning book of the year in 2006), How to Increase the Potential of Students with DCD (Dyspraxia) in Secondary School, How to Support Children with Sensory Processing Needs, How to Understand and Apply Reforms in SEN Policy and How to Identify and  Overcome Handwriting Difficulties. She is a contributor to Developing School Provision for Children with Dyspraxia, and editor of Occupational Therapy Evidence in Practice for Physical Rehabilitation.

Audience:

Headteachers, Teachers, SENCOs, Inclusion Managers, TAs & Learning Mentors

Cost:

£114+VAT / person 
Refreshments and a light lunch and ‘How to Support Children with Sensory Processing’ Book (RRP £19.99) included

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Advanced booking is required to attend this event.

  • Adults: £114

Cancellations/Refunds: Cancellations of training events are subject to a 25% administration fee where the cancellation is made 3 weeks or more before the date of the event. No refund is payable for a cancellation made within 2 weeks prior to the training course – in this event the full sum shown on the invoice remains payable.

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