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A really useful tool to help all members of the family recognise their emotions and moods

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Mindfulness improves physical health.
Mindfulness can: help relieve stress, treat heart disease, lower blood pressure, reduce chronic pain, , improve sleep, and alleviate gastrointestinal difficulties.

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This Venn diagram offers insight into how thoughts, feelings and actions over lap

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Dyslexia' comes from the Greek term meaning 'difficulty' and lexis meaning 'language'.

Dyslexia is a learning difference to do with the way language is processed.

Dyslexic pupils are slower at processing auditory and visual information.

A student's phonology can be different, causing sounds being missed or confused, which leads to problems with reading and writing.

Dyslexia can create the ability to think in multi- dimensions.

Dyslexia can affect motor skills and the processing, memorising and organisation of information.

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Also known as: impairment of handwriting characterized by illegible handwriting and trouble transcribing thoughts.

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Dyscalculia affects the ability to acquire arithmetical skills. Dyscalculic learners may have difficulty understanding simple number concepts, lack an intuitive grasp of numbers, and have problems learning number facts and procedures.

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This document hold many strategies that you and your child can try to support spelling acquisition and skill.

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Use the this template with your child to help them identify how they feel and strategies that can help them feel happy and calm.

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Some great ideas to help motivate and/or calm down. There's a template at the end to add your own ideas.

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A great activity to do alongside your child. Encourages conversation and insight

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An effective strategy to focus attention and plan tasks

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SEND strategy - Kent County Council

SEND information hub - Kent County Council

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SEND Vision 2020 2021

Our approach at Lenham is one that encompasses inclusion, nurturing and high expectations for all.

The impact of the lockdown has far reaching implications. Wellbeing of everyone, working in bubbles / phases, restrictions on movement around the school, continuous cleaning and hand washing, virtual meetings, changes to school timings all contribute to the necessary changes in working conditions. Unfortunately, these changes have a huge impact on the actual available teaching time.

More now than ever, we need to be inventive in our approach to education; engaging and inspiring teachers, pupils and parents to embrace the changes and to see the potential to progress that still remains within everyone’s reach.

Small step progression is equally as important as giant leaps. This is important to remember as the educational and social gaps of pupils identified as vulnerable and SEND, prior to lockdown, have increased. This was inevitable.

Additionally, it has also become apparent that gaps have appeared for some pupils who previously would have achieved expected progress had the lockdown been averted. These gaps, again are not restricted to purely academic but also the social impact that lockdown has had on their wellbeing and confidence.

The government have recognised this unfolding issue and foresee the potential long-term impact. Therefore, additional funding has been made available for schools to invest in supporting those pupils specifically affected.