The training will cover the specific learning profile of a pupil with Down Syndrome, how to pace a lesson to maximise student engagement, differentiation strategies across the curriculum (including English and maths), supporting behaviour, increasing self-esteem, supporting unstructured times of the day and promoting independence.

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A drop in session for staff who are delivering the Steps to Success phonic programme and completing reassessments. 

The session can be tailored to meet individuals needs and provide advice, support and resources.

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Training will include:

• Profile of strengths and weakness of a learner with Down Syndrome

• Learning about reading and numeracy interventions such as See and Learn, Word Up, Reading and Language intervention scheme, Numicon

• Being able to access STEPS resources to support reading and numeracy

• Learning about websites and apps that can provide further support

• Opportunity to share ideas with other delegates supporting children with Down Syndrome

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Rationale and overview of access arrangements.  

Covering a range of different types of access arrangements and identifying pupil needs.  Understanding the process of applying for AAs and collating evidence.  The session will also cover the following:

• Understanding cognitive processing and the demands of the secondary curriculum on pupils' cognitive processing skills

• Best practice in implementing a whole school approach to access arrangements

• Keeping the child at the heart of the process

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A networking session for SENCOs to share new developments in SEND. This session will provide support, information, advice and sign posting for SENCOs in mainstream schools in Royal Borough of Greenwich.

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This course provides an overview of autism in relation to girls. It looks at the diagnostic methods and explores why ASD has often been thought of as a more 'male' condition. 

We look at recent developments in our understanding of how autism presents in girls, addressing special interests, behaviour, social skills, masking/camouflaging and mental health. 

Examining how common autism is in girls, why it often goes undiagnosed until later in life, and why other diagnoses may be given instead. We will also explore those areas where autism can pose challenges for girls and the adults around them, and discuss strategies and techniques to support. 

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The Word Up approach is suitable for children working significantly below the Key Stage standards and not responding successfully to the traditional 'synthetic phonics' methods. This is a whole word reading and language development approach, particularly suitable for children who are visual learners.

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This course provides an overview of the story box programmes, which offer a story-based multisensory approach to the development of early reading and communication skills.  Some boxes also include a focus on early maths concepts and skills.  The boxes contain a large range of engaging resources.

This training course offers staff an opportunity to become familiar with the story box programmes and available resources, and prepares them to deliver these to groups of pupils.

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This workshop will provide an opportunity for teachers to explore and discuss the PIVATS 5 descriptors.

Teachers will work with colleagues to moderate their own pupil's samples of work and make accurate judgements for those children who are working significantly below the key stage standards.

Attendees will bring along examples of work produced by the children they wish to discuss with colleagues and moderators.

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This course supports staff in schools in supporting pupils with an ASD and sensory sensitivities, setting up interventions and supporting specialist Occupational Therapist programmes.

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Training will include:

• Looking at expectations of appropriate behaviour

• Self-help skills

• Strategies to support appropriate behaviour

• Speech and language difficulties that children with DS may have, how to support and develop functional communication skills and strategies to support speech and language development

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This course will provide staff with ways to analyse behaviour in children with an ASD, taking into account their specific learning and processing styles. This will lead to discussing practical strategies to manage behaviour in school, including designing behaviour plans and links to school behaviour policies.

It is recommended that LSA’s attend together with the school SENCO, so that strategies can be integrated within school-based behaviour policies and plans. The course will NOT cover handling and restraint management techniques.

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An overview of current evidence-based literacy/dyslexia interventions addressing the needs of pupils with difficulties in:

• Language

• Comprehension

• Reading

• Spelling

• Phonics

• Handwriting

These will include computer-based and non computer-based interventions.

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The Word Up approach is suitable for children working significantly below the Key Stage standards and not responding successfully to the traditional 'synthetic phonics' methods. This is a whole word reading and language development approach, particularly suitable for children who are visual learners.

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A course to support staff in schools in supporting students at an early stage of communication development to access story-based sessions to develop literacy, language and interaction skills.

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This course identifies and provides strategies for teaching the crucial concepts that children need to learn in the early stages of reading, from directionality through to working on unknown words in context. 

It identifies the three main sources of information that good readers use to read: Meaning, Language Structure and Phonics, and provides training on how to support these three areas in simple, practical ways. 

Participants will be taught how to take a Running Record. This is a simple assessment that can be taken on any text. They are a quick and efficient way of gathering information about a child’s reading and are particularly useful for children who struggle with reading, providing valuable information about the strategies a child uses/ignores. Once gaps have been identified they can be addressed in order to support the child’s reading development. 

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Training will include:

• Learning about fine and gross motor skills

• Mark making

• Prewriting shapes

• Letter formation

• Assistive technology available to support handwriting/writing development

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A drop-in session for staff who are using the Word Up approach with pupils. 

The session can be tailored to meet individuals needs and provide advice, support and resources. 

Booking is via RBG Services to School. Click here.

This course provides an overview of autism in relation to girls. It looks at the diagnostic methods and explores why ASD has often been thought of as a more 'male' condition. 

We look at recent developments in our understanding of how autism presents in girls, addressing special interests, behaviour, social skills, masking/camouflaging and mental health. 

Examining how common autism is in girls, why it often goes undiagnosed until later in life, and why other diagnoses may be given instead. We will also explore those areas where autism can pose challenges for girls and the adults around them, and discuss strategies and techniques to support. 

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This course supports staff in schools in supporting pupils with an ASD and sensory sensitivities, setting up interventions and supporting specialist Occupational Therapist programmes.

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A day to:

• Explore the particular mental health needs most commonly linked to children with an ASD

• Explore current research in this area, including more vulnerable groups of children

• Provide participants with resources and strategies to use with this group of students

• Inform staff how to signpost students/families to external support

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This course provides an overview of autism in relation to girls. It looks at the diagnostic methods and explores why ASD has often been thought of as a more 'male' condition. 

We look at recent developments in our understanding of how autism presents in girls, addressing special interests, behaviour, social skills, masking/camouflaging and mental health. 

Examining how common autism is in girls, why it often goes undiagnosed until later in life, and why other diagnoses may be given instead. We will also explore those areas where autism can pose challenges for girls and the adults around them, and discuss strategies and techniques to support. 

Booking is via RBG Services to School. Click here.