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Councils 'failing special educational needs children'

Councils 'failing special educational needs children'

Audit reveals more than half of the authorities trialling 'biggest reforms in 30 years' have no plans to carry them out

Date: Mon 25 Feb 2013

Source: The Guardian

  • Sen
  • Guardian
  • Provision
  • Special educational needs
UK has five times as many SEN pupils as European average?

UK has five times as many SEN pupils as European average?

The number of children identified with learning difficulties in England is five times the European average because schools too often classify under-performing pupils as having special educational needs, it was claimed last night

Date: Thu 28 Feb 2013

Source: Daily Mail Online

  • Sen
  • Numbers
  • Special educational needs
  • Categorisation
Three year study into sports and SEN launched in Epping Forest

Three year study into sports and SEN launched in Epping Forest

A three year project to help children with learning difficulties, along with their parents, will begin in April.

Date: Mon 04 Mar 2013

Source: Local Guardian

  • Sen
  • Sports
  • Adhd
  • Asd
  • Exercise
Children are sent to school too young in the UK

Children are sent to school too young in the UK

Deborah Orr looks at whether or not we start children too early at school and if this has any link to the numbers we say have special educational needs.

Date: Sat 09 Mar 2013

Source: The Guardian Teacher Network

  • Sen
  • Socioeconomics
  • Special educational needs
  • Disadvantage
  • Diagnosis
Night Zookeeper

Night Zookeeper

A magical creative experience where you take on drawing missions to defeat monsters that attack the special creatures in your zoo. You are invited to create fantastic artworks such as a spying giraffe or an underwater spacemen. An app to inspire children to learn at any level through art, stories and creative writing. (free)

Level: Cross-phase

Cost: Free

  • Sen
  • Ks1
  • Ks2
  • App
  • Ks3
  • Imagination
  • Learning difficulties
  • Drawings
  • Creative writing
Word Mover

Word Mover

A free magnetic poetry app from ReadWriteThink. Choose a background and a word bank from a mash-up of famous words, or make your own bank to deepen understanding of a text you are reading. Then draw from the word banks to make your own 'found poems'. Customising the text adds a visual element, making it fun to play with words enabling all abilities to create with pride

Level: Cross-phase

Cost: Free

  • English
  • Sen
  • Ks1
  • Ks2
  • Ks3
  • Language
  • Learning difficulties
  • Poems
  • Word banks
  • Customised text
  • Magnetic poetry
Class Dojo

Class Dojo

Use ClassDojo to improve classroom behaviour & build positive learning habits. Check it out!

Level: Primary

Cost: Free

  • Sen
  • Ks1
  • Ks2
  • Classroom management
  • Classroom behaviour
Kinect SEN for severe learning difficulties

Kinect SEN for severe learning difficulties

A professional learning community site exploring how gesture based technology can help people with severe learning difficulties with their engagement, creativity and independence skills. Five free programs you can try in school, all of which have been tried out and used in lessons in special needs schools with pupils with SEN and SLD, typically P3 level to NC1. Exciting stuff!

Level: Cross-phase

Cost: Free

  • Games
  • Sen
  • Kinect
  • Ks1
  • Ks2
  • Ks4
  • Ks3
  • Creativity
  • Independence
  • Movement
  • Severe learning difficulties
  • Sld
  • Gestures
Conference: The Power of Music – Music and Special Educational Needs

Conference: The Power of Music – Music and Special Educational Needs

Tuesday 5 February 09.30 - 15.30, Liverpool Hope University
Organized by Liverpool Hope University in association with NAME (North Western Region). £15 per person, £10
NAME members, free to students. Lunch can be purchased on campus at the Eden Café. Presenters include Lesley
Flemming, Peterhouse Special School – presentation and workshop: Lesson Planning, working with P levels, Arts
Award and personalising the curriculum; and Sally Daunt: Dyslexia and Music. www.lhope.ac.uk.

Level: Cross-phase

Cost: Free

  • Sen
Funding crisis stalls post-16 ambitions for SEN students

Funding crisis stalls post-16 ambitions for SEN students

More young people will end up in institutions, experts warn. A “crisis” in funding for FE students with serious learning difficulties and disabilities could lead to more young people being sent to long-term institutions away from their families, campaigners have warned.

Date: Fri 25 Jan 2013

Source: TES

  • Sen
  • Further education
  • Post-16
  • Transitions
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