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At South Pennine Academies, we want every student to have the best possible chance to achieve in school.

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Please see a range of useful websites, collated by Miss Barker-Milner:

Kirklees Local Offer 

Local Offer- Parent Area 

PCAN (Parents of Children with Additional Needs Making a Difference in Kirklees)  

Locala Sensory- Parent Advice

Sensory Training for Parents

Dyslexia- Information for Parents

Singing Hands- Makaton Videos

 BBC Bitesize- Special Educational Needs Support

 

Routines and Visuals 

Here is a video to explain how to use visuals with your child at home: 

 

 

Here is a selection of websites that are brilliant for resources to support your child's Speech and Language at home: 

Colourful Semantics have a wealth of resources for free to support early language and sentence construction: 

https://integratedtreatmentservices.co.uk/our-approaches/speech-therapy-approaches/colourful-semantics-2/

The Communication Trust has many links to different resources for parents as well as schools (some free) as well as offering some free training which is very interesting:

 https://www.thecommunicationtrust.org.uk/

Activities to develop attention and listening

activities to develop attention and listening in foundation stage.pdf

games and activities to help develop attention and listening 1 .pdf

 

Ideas to help your child with putting things in order:

early sequencing skills.pdf

 

 

sentence ordering.pdf

 Resources to help your child with prepositions:

prepositions in on and under.pdf

 

Developing 2 and 3 word level activities:

developing comprehension and expression at a 3 key word level.pdf

developing comprehension and expression at a 2 key word level.pdf

Motor Skills Ideas 

Dough Disco is brilliant for developing your child's fine motor skills: 



Here are some resources to develop your child's motor skills:

playdough.pdf

fine motor skills inside.pdf

Emotional Support

Here are some ideas for Well-Being apps for you to download: 

https://www.theschoolrun.com/best-wellbeing-apps-for-kids

 

understanding emotions and body language.pdf

Understanding Emotions resources: 

 

understanding emotions.pdf

grounding technique.pdf

 

Strategies to support your child cope with anxiety: 

feeling anxious cards.pdf

 

English and Maths activities

At the moment there are lots of websites offering free trials: 

https://www.nessy.com/free-trial/signup

This is a great alternative to Times Table Rockstars and doesn't have the time pressures that some of our children find difficult: 

https://www.timestables.co.uk/

Resources to support: 

maths ordering to 20.pdf

english reading comprehension 4 key words.pdf

english cvcc and ccvc booklet.pdf

english cvc booklet.pdf