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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.

Affiliated schools will receive:

  • Email advice on supporting students with Social, Emotional, and Mental Health (SEMH) difficulties
  • Email advice on supporting students with an autistic profile.
  • Training on creating an 'Inclusion Framework.'
  • Access to Whole School Training at a special discounted rate.
  • Unlimited email advice on learning differences, strategies for specific profiles, and whole-school inclusion approaches.
  • 10% discount on our training events.
  • Access to transition and research projects, including:
    • Graduated Approach to Reading Provision
    • Graduated Approach to Maths Provision
    • Graduated Approach to SEMH Provision
  • Support in developing an effective core SEND offer that benefits all students.

Annual cost: £200 + VAT

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

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.

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

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.

The Importance of Feeling Safe

From Co-Regulation to Self-Regulation. The workshop will help delegates use a neurobiological lens to understand behaviour and support children and young people.

The Importance of Feeling Safe

Summary of the event:

During this event Andrea introduces concepts and practical tools aimed at empowering practitioners within an educational setting. The workshop will help delegates use a neurobiological lens to understand behaviour and support children and young people.

It is generally accepted that self-regulation is the central element in being able to manage the ups and downs of daily life and to have positive physical and mental health, sadly, for a multitude of reasons, we are seeing an increasing number of children and adults who lack the neural agility and skills to do this. Co-regulation enables the development of self-regulation and both concepts pivot on the innate need to feel safe.
In this workshop Andrea will set out the fundamentals of Polyvagal Theory, the science of safety and practical techniques to enhance co-regulation and self-regulation.

Delegates will learn:

  • To understand how the body and brain respond to the myriad of stressors of modern life
  • The importance of feeling safe for wellbeing and learning.
  • How to become aware of your own ‘state’ and how to change your ‘state’
  • To recognise the signs of different ‘states’ in students and young people
  • Ways to co-regulate
  • How to enhance and develop self-regulation

Delegates will return to their daily lives with a different perspective and a new understanding of the behaviours they see and tools to respond in helpful ways.

Training led by: Andrea Edmondson (NeuroSmart Learning Limited)

Andrea works in education, business and non-for-profit, using the neurobiology of human behaviour and health to understand and change behaviour and improve wellbeing. Andrea holds masters’ degrees from the University of Glasgow and London, a postgraduate in ‘Understanding behaviour’, is a certified facilitator for Dr Shanker Self-Reg Method® and a mindfulness educator. She has 28 years of teaching and coaching experience both in the UK and the USA.

Andrea has four children aged between 13 and 21 and has first-hand experience living with and managing ASD, ADHD, PDA, anxiety and dyslexia. Her personal journey, plus her grounding as a primary school teacher in London enables her to translate the science, making it both accessible and practical. Andrea has worked in and with primary and secondary schools in London and North Yorkshire as a teacher, advisor and governor. She is passionate about empowering people with the knowledge, understanding and tools to seek solutions that enable safety allowing people to flourish.

Audience:

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

Cost:

£93.00 +VAT / person (Refreshments and a light lunch included)

Information Flyer

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.

Advanced booking is required to attend this event.

  • Adults: £93
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