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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 Advanced 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.

Examination Access Arrangements for General Qualifications

FULLY BOOKED

Examination Access  Arrangements for General Qualifications

Friday, 8th November
9.30am - 4.00pm
Venue: Richmond School & Sixth Form (North Yorkshire)

This course is for everyone involved in Access Arrangements assessments for General Qualifications (e.g. GCSE, A levels). This includes Access Arrangements Assessors, SENCOs, Examinations Officers and Educational Psychologists working at school and FE level.

Changes for the 2024/25 JCQ regulations to ensure delegates are fully up to date with the JCQ requirements.

What does the training cover?

  • Rationale for access arrangements
  • Types of access arrangements
  • Evidence requirements
  • JCQ access arrangements inspections
  • Applying for arrangements using Access Arrangements Online
  • Recommendations for tests and assessments
  • Completing JCQ paperwork, including Form 8
  • Opportunities to ask questions and discuss case studies
  • Copies of a range of tests will be available for perusal

This course is SASC approved and every delegate will receive a certificate.

Training led by: Caroline Reed

Caroline is a Specialist Teacher who has practical experience in all areas of the Access Arrangements process and trains for LAs, Universities and SEN Services. Caroline contributed to the PATOSS/JCQ publication ‘Dyslexia: Assessing the need for Access Arrangements’, has been published in academic journals and has worked with various publishers to develop tests. She was part of the working party which set up ‘Access Arrangements Online’ and has been involved with other DfE and Ofqual training and policy projects.

Audience:

Specialist Teachers, SENCos, Inclusion Co-ordinators, Examination Officers and EPs

Cost:

£180 (incl. VAT)/person, £10 off for second/subsequent delegates (refreshments & lunch incl.)

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.

 

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