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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 Affiliate Membership

Affiliated schools will receive:

  • 10% discount on all YES@ training events

  • The opportunity to host a training event, coordinated by YES@, allowing all your staff to be trained at a very low cost

  • Priority access to our popular Swimming for All programme for your pupils

  • Access to conscious breathing training at a low cost, designed to help children improve self-regulation and wellbeing

  • Direct access to advice and guidance from the YES@ team via email, offering ongoing support throughout the year

Annual cost: £200 + VAT

Please email yes@arete.uk or call 01748 850111 ext. 221 for further information or registration.

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 - Neurodiversity Practitioner Support

Who can we support?

We provide strength-based, needs based assessment and support therefore a diagnosis is not needed to access support.

We support students with:

  • communication and interaction needs
  • characteristics relating to autism, ADHD and PDA.
  • sensory needs.
  • who have challenges attending school and/or accessing specific lessons
  • dysregulation and behaviour that challenges school
  • who experience anxiety and mask at school

What services do we provide?

  • General advice and recommendations in-person via email, phone or through a pre-planned virtual meeting.
  • Assessment and identification of need.
  • Written advice outlining recommendations.
  • Coaching and mentoring staff on research-based approaches of interventions.
  • Modelling use of resources and evidence- based strategies of support.
  • In class observations
  • Specialist support for individual students
  • Bespoke workshops tailored to the needs of the school, department or class.
  • Signposting to services, resources and support for families

Dysregulation & Sensory Support

  • Identify and assess sensory needs
  • Create individual sensory plans 
  • Coach and support educators to implement whole class and personalised sensory strategies.
  • Provide advice on how to use a low arousal approach with individual students.
  • Provide advice on personalised strategies that will support regulation and regulate the nervous system.
  • Conduct neurodiversity environment audits

Emotional Based School Anxiety

  • Identify barriers that impact on the student accessing school and/or specific lessons.
  • Provide advice and recommendations that will support the reduction of barriers.
  • Identify trigger points within the environment.
  • Provide advice and recommendations to minimise the impact of trigger points within the environment.
  • Develop holistic, progressive plans that reflect the identified needs of the student.

Communication & Engagement

The support outlined below does not replace, but will compliment, speech and language therapy. 

  • Provide advice on barriers to communication and recommend whole class approaches and tailored strategies.
  • Assessment of need for students who have limited or no verbal communication
  • Advise on how to use visual supports for all students and those needing targeted provision.
  • Using interest- based approaches to support engagement
  • Modelling evidence- based approaches to support communication and engagement 
  • Modelling evidence- based approaches to support students with planning, organising and retaining information.

Transitions

  • Assessment of communication and interaction needs to support transitions
  • Support transitions in the early years
  • Support transitions between key stages.
  • Support transitions between key phases of a student’s school career.

Bespoke Workshops  

All workshops include an initial in person or pre planned virtual consultation to discuss the current needs and challenges within your setting. This will support in creating workshops that meet the specific needs of your setting.

Workshops are tailored to the relevant curriculum and key stage, including the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum.

All workshops are knowledge based and include a toolbox of practical strategies to explore that can be used to support neurodiversity in schools.

Who are the workshops for?

The workshops will be beneficial for educators, families and supporting professionals who are supporting young people who have the following needs or have personal interests in:

  • Understanding Neurodiversity
  • Neurodiversity workshops specific to the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum and play-based learning.
  • Autism
  • Autism and anxiety
  • ADHD
  • Sensory Processing
  • Social, emotional and mental health
  • Dysregulation
  • Masking and Internal Dysregulation.
  • Physical dysregulation and behaviours that challenge the setting

INFORMATION FLYER

YES@ Areté Learning Trust - Whole School Training

Training on Understanding and Supporting Students with ADHD

  • These sessions are designed to equip your staff with the knowledge and strategies necessary to effectively support students with ADHD in the classroom.
  • Led by Kath Lawson (Lead for Inclusion – Areté Learning Trust)
  • Cost: £150 + VAT plus travel expenses
  • The training can be scheduled after school at a time that is most convenient for you and your team.

For further details and to schedule your training session, please email yes@arete.uk.

 

Training on Understanding and Supporting Students with Autism

  • These sessions are designed to equip your staff with the knowledge and strategies necessary to effectively support students with Autism in the classroom.
  • Led by Kath Lawson (Lead for Inclusion – Areté Learning Trust)
  • Cost: £150 + VAT plus travel expenses
  • The training can be scheduled after school at a time that is most convenient for you and your team.

For further details and to schedule your training session, please email yes@arete.uk.

 

Bespoke Training by a Neurodiversity Practitioner

  • All workshops include an initial in person or pre planned virtual consultation to discuss the current needs and challenges within your setting. This will support in creating workshops that meet the specific needs of your setting.

  • Workshops are tailored to the relevant curriculum and key stage, including the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum.

  • All workshops are knowledge based and include a toolbox of practical strategies to explore that can be used to support neurodiversity in schools.

  • Led by Hannah Wilkinson (Neurodiversity Practioner - Areté Learning Trust)
  • The training can be scheduled after school at a time that is most convenient for you and your team.

Who are these workshops for?

The workshops will be beneficial for educators, families and supporting professionals who are supporting young people who have the following needs or have personal interests in:

  • Understanding Neurodiversity
  • Neurodiversity workshops specific to the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum and play-based learning.
  • Autism
  • Autism and anxiety
  • ADHD
  • Sensory Processing
  • Social, emotional and mental health
  • Dysregulation
  • Masking and Internal Dysregulation.
  • Physical dysregulation and behaviours that challenge the setting

For further details and to schedule your training session, please email yes@arete.uk.

 

Training on Conscious Breathing - Supporting young people to become calm and focussed

  • Breathwork is the perfect wellness strategy for schools and parents to support both adults and pupils of any age, as it addresses core areas of health, physical, mental and emotional, in a simple, accessible way.
  • Led by Steffy Cappleman (SOMA Breath Master Instructor)
  • Cost: £150 + VAT plus travel expenses
  • The training can be scheduled after school at a time that is most convenient for you and your team.

For further details and to schedule your 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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