A SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR SEND LEARNERS AGED 11-19
Welcome! Please find below a range of remote learning resources that you can view, download or print for your child to use at home. There’s a wide selection of activities to suit a broad range of student’s learning needs from sensory activities to adapted books with symbols to assist learner’s reading. Please look through the links below for items to suit your child’s learning needs.
The resources below are to support communication, life skills and add to the benefits of the daily activities you may already be doing at home. Press the links below to view these resources.
Sensory stories are a wonderful way to learn, communicate and explore. Look through An Introduction to Sensory Stories first – this describes the different items we use in sensory stories at Beatrice Tate School which you may already have in your home. You can create your own sensory story using this helpful guide or explore our selection below. Press each of the images below to view our sensory story guides.
An introduction to sensory stories
The BFG Sensory Story
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Sensory Story
Where the Wild Things Are Sensory Story
Alice in Wonderland Sensory Story
In the packs below find adapted popular stories accessible for our students with the addition of reading symbols, snap cards and creative story activities to complete. These stories have been recommended by mental health organisations to support children and young people’s wellbeing. To access these please click on the icons below.
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
Where The Wild Things Are is a classic and much loved story. It goes through Max’s journey as he imagines a different world with strange creatures in the confines of his bedroom. With many restrictions in place due to the pandemic this is the perfect story to explore ideas of our imagination transporting us to new surroundings, remembered or imagined. Perhaps you could even transform your rooms with lights, shadow-play or objects as you go through this story.
THE MEMORY TREE
This story adapted from Britta Teckentrup’s book is about coping with loss and the importance of celebrating memories of loved ones. It could be also an opportunity to talk about friends or family members we are missing through lockdown and thinking about the fun times we have had with them. Using the Memory Tree art activity you can also add photographs of these happy memories to look at in your home.
UNDER THE UMBRELLA
This is an adapted version of a book by Davina Bell. It’s a wonderful story for parents to read with their child to talk about the support parents, family, carers and friends offer us when we’re feeling anxious or scared. The additional communication task is a good opportunity to talk about who’s in your family or support bubble or ‘umbrella’ currently.
RUBY’S WORRY
Ruby’s Worry is now a well-known book by Tom Percival that helps to encourage children and young people to discuss their worries and anxieties. Like the other books it has been adapted and with the addition of symbols now accessible for many of our students. The story follows a young girl called Ruby as she learns how to cope with her first worry. Ruby loves being Ruby. Until, one day, she finds a worry. At first it’s not such a big worry, and that’s all right, but then it starts to grow. It gets bigger and bigger every day and it makes Ruby sad. How can Ruby get rid of it and feel like herself again?
Making meals and following recipes is a great way to learn at home. Whether you are following recipes as a sensory activity – exploring different textures with your hands, or to build on reading, maths and life skills, there are a range of benefits to be gained.
Below is a selection of recipes with symbols alongside text to support student’s understanding. The recipes can also be cut into sentence strips, to learn about sequencing – try placing these in order. For learners that enjoy more sensory based activities there is a ‘Messy Play’ recipe sheet for non-edible recipes to explore and learn through play. Press the links below to view the recipes and guides.
If your child has access to technology and the internet in the home, there’s a large selection of educational apps available to use. From use of iPads in school many of our students are familiar with both fun and educational apps to explore and learn with. For our home learners with access to these resources, online lessons incorporate activities to build on these ICT skills. On the link below find compiled some of our teacher’s and student’s favourites.
