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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.

Understanding Anxiety in Autistic Children

Training at Richmond School & Sixth Form - 16th October 2026

Understanding Anxiety in Autistic Children

Friday, 16th October 2026
9:30am - 1:00pm 
Richmond School & Sixth Form, North Yorkshire

Autistic children can often appear more anxious than other children. This is partly because the world can feel uncertain, overwhelming, and sometimes unsafe for them, and partly because they experience sensory input and emotions differently. Anxiety can have a significant impact on their mental health, learning, and everyday wellbeing.

This training explores how anxiety affects autistic young people, how it may present in behaviour, and how adults can provide the right support to help them feel safe, understood, and more confident.

Participants will gain practical strategies to support co-regulation and self-regulation, helping autistic children manage uncertainty and feel more in control in school, at home, and in the wider world.

What You Will Learn

- Understanding that anxiety is often hidden behind behaviour, masking, and emotional responses, not just what we see on the surface.

- Recognising how autistic children experience the world through an autistic lens, and how this understanding helps us create the right support.

- Learning how teaching about sensory systems and emotional responses can help autistic children understand and manage anxiety.

- Exploring the important role adults play in making schools, homes, and communities feel safer and more autism-friendly.

- Discovering a range of practical autism-friendly resources that can support children both in school and at home.

- Understanding why working together, starting with the child’s voice and including parents and carers, makes the greatest difference.

 

Training led by: Lynn McCann

Lynn McCann is the author of five books for teachers about supporting autistic children and young people.  She is an independent specialist teacher based in the Northwest of England. She and her team, work from pupil voices, always putting the child at the heart of all they do and supporting young people in primary, secondary and other settings. Lynn has many years’ experience of working with anxious autistic young people and has delivered training around autism and mental health for many years.  Her company, Reachout ASC Ltd, has autistic people on the team who help develop this training.

Ideal For: Teachers • Teaching Assistants • SENCOs • School Staff • Parents • Carers • Professionals Supporting Autistic Children

Cost: £119 + VAT / person (light lunch and refreshments included). Limited discounted places available to parent / carers.

To book your place please email us or register below.

Training Information Leaflet

Please click here for other training events hosted by Yes@ Areté Learning Trust.

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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