Supporting your child's learning at home

In school many of our children with additional or special educational needs will take part in a range of interventions and activities which support their learning and development in a range of areas.

On this page you will find a range of resources and ideas for activities you can do at home with your child. 

For more advice or information, please don't hesitate to contact our SENCo, Mrs Watts, on cwatts@st-peters-canterbury.kent.sch.uk or speak to staff working in your child's class; we will be more than happy to help!

 

Sensory Circuits

 For video sensory circuit sessions visit:

Iain Mills' YouTube channel

 Oak National Academy

A guide to Sensory Circuits, and the different stages involved:

sensory circuits a guide.pdf

Physical Development

Handwriting

Fizzy and Gross Motor Skills

Here are the NHS guides for different levels of Fizzy intervention. Check your child's PLP to see which they are working on in school.

• 0100 home coping strategies 1 1
• 0107 body awareness level one 1
• 0108 body awareness level two
• 0109 body awareness level three
• 0110 balance level one
• 0111 balance level two
• 0112 balance level three
• 0113 ball level one
• 0114 ball level two
• 0115 ball level three

Clever Hands and Fine Motor Skills

 Here are the NHS guides for different levels of Clever Hands intervention. Check your child's PLP to see which they are working on in school.

• 0103 clever hands level one 1
• 0104 clever hands level two
• 0105 clever hands level three

This is a great resource with 50 fine motor skills sessions, led by qualified Occupational Therapist, Kim Griffin.

Griffin OT - Fine Motor Skills activities

Speech and Language

Top tips for supporting a child's speech and language development

top 10 slt tips 5 10 years .pdf

Makaton

accessing makaton resources at home.pdf

For more specific advice or activities based on the speech and language programme your child is working on in school, please contact Mrs Robinson our SENCo on vrobinson@st-peters-canterbury.kent.sch.uk and she will be able to send you the appropriate resources.

 

This website is really interesting for looking at typical ages and stages of development for children in terms of their speech and language: I Can - Ages and Stages

Memory 

Play online memory games at

https://www.learninggamesforkids.com/memory-games.html

tips and games to improve working memory.pdf

games to improve auditory memory.pdf

Sensory

For yoga, mindfulness and stretching videos, linked to popular stories, songs and characters, visit:

Cosmic Kids Yoga

For calming sensory and mindfulness videos, visit: Sensory and Neurocognitive Development (SAND) YouTube Channel

For brain breaks and mindful minutes, visit:

Griffin OT YouTube channel

Social, Emotional and Mental Health

Visit Childline's Calm Zone for a range of activities, videos and games to support you with regulating your emotions, and helping you feel calm.

Calm Zone - Childline

Phonics - Little Wandle

There’s free access to synthetic phonics games at https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/index.htm#

Search ‘phonics’ at https://www.twinkl.co.uk/ for phonics activities

On youtube there are videos from the CBeebies Alphablocks series which supports reading via stories about cartoon letter blocks that say certain sounds

What is phonics? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42jb6PopZCI

How to support your child with phonics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Oj6_6oJq8

How you pronounce the sounds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwJx1NSineE

Reading

 An app or web based game to engage your child with reading (free computer version, paid for app) https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/

Reading Eggs online games and activities to support with reading (30 Day free trial) https://readingeggs.co.uk/

Nessy have a range of paid for apps to support with learning to read https://www.nessy.com/uk/apps/