SEND Toolkit-Developing early literacy and maths skills

Cherry Garden School is Southwark's specialist primary school for children with complex learning differences from age 2-11. This is one of three SEND Toolkits suitable for Learning Support Assistants, Teachers and other school staff working with pupils with a high level of need. They are designed to give you training in some of the strategies we use at Cherry Garden which you could take back to use in your own setting.

This SEND Toolkit day is focused on developing early reading, writing and maths skills in primary age children. It will help you if you are working with any pupils who are able to engage with simple and engaging reading, writing and maths tasks at their level, but cannot access the main class teaching and learning. These children could be working anywhere betweenCherry Garden Branches 6-10.

You will receive training from our Outreach team at Cherry Garden (Alice Frost & Anna Parsons) in a range of key literacy and maths strategies that we use at Cherry Garden to support pupils. Topics will include: Phonics Bag, the Reading Project, Colourful Semantics, Whole Body Writing, Maths activities and building independent learning skills.

You will also go on a tour of the school before the children arrive.

We have two other SEND Toolkit courses, which will have a different focus. Please choose the course most relevant to the children you are working with.

If you would like advice on which course would be most suitable for you, please email [email protected] and we would be pleased to help. If you have missed the course you need, or it is full, please email to let us know, as it may be possible to run it again.

This training is now free of charge for all Southwark state primary schools and maintained nursery schools, and will be £50 for staff from non-Southwark schools/ other professionals.

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