Shipton Bellinger Primary School

Learning and Growing Together

SEN

 

Home learning website/learning ideas for pupils with SEND A more comprehensive list of sites can be found at: https://chatterpack.net/blogs/blog/resources-list-for-home-learning This also includes social stories about the virus, home learning schedule ideas, anxiety and emotional support.

 

Brain Parade

Website: http://www.brainparade.com/products/see-touch-learn-free/

Description: a visual instruction app, including flash cards and picture-choosing games, for children with autism and special needs.

HelpKidzLearn

Website: https://www.helpkidzlearn.com/

Description: a collection of games and resources designed for a range of educational needs and stages. It includes provision for school closure.

Sensory App House Ltd

Website: https://www.sensoryapphouse.com/

Description: a range of apps are available for pupils with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD) or Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD). All are interactive and many do not require significant coordination abilities.

Visuals2Go

Website: https://www.visuals2go.com/

Description: an all-in-one app created to support people with communication and learning difficulties. For verbal and non-verbal learners.

 

http://www.thesensoryprojects.co.uk/covid19-resources

Description: This page is providing a bank of resources helpful for those looking for educational activities to do whilst staying home and staying safe.The resources are loosely grouped into those aimed at people with additional educational needs, those specific to learning about COVID 19 and the changes it is implementing in our lives and those aimed at students who attend mainstream schools

https://www.techability.org.uk/resources/aiding-learning-from-home/

Description: Website suggest hardware and software which may be useful when learners are at home.

 https://councilfordisabledchildren.org.uk/help-resources/resources/supporting-children-learning-disability-asd-coping-covid-19-isolation

Description: Supporting Children with Learning Disability/ ASD: coping with COVID-19 isolation

https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/tools/guidance-reports/special-educational-needs-disabilities/

 

Star Fall -Practice reading skills -Starfall.

oxfordowl.

www.twinkl.co.uk

www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/ -very popular reading website

Phonics play are doing a month’s free login: www.phonicsplay.co.uk username: March20 password: home

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize -Learning resources for all subjects.

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/ -Learning for all different topics.

https://reading.ecb.org/ -Play games that practice reading strategies.

www.ictgames.com –ks1 maths and English games

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/forkids/ history for all curriculum areas

https://www.senteacher.org/ -lots of customisable resources

 https://www.nessy.com/uk/parents/dyslexia-information/ -extended free trial available for those with persistent literacy difficulties.

https://senresourcesblog.com/ lots of ideas and resources

https://www.autcraft.com/ A modulated and monitored, online site for autistic children and young people (Minecraft themed).

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0088/6797/1123/files/ChatterPack_-_Building_vocabulary.pdf?242 –Speech and language vocabulary resource

https://www.specialneedsjungle.com/ -parents support website

https://www.mathsexplained.co.uk/?fbclid=IwAR2UYRJeiIhQ7j_11_RHieHAkfA4NA17JH02Bs0fa3ABnY5C1CICh6eHhI8

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/books/numicon-guide-for-parents/?fbclid=IwAR0evsMBOpNqkcUwh7VuA-Edwwkvi_rD0GSYKkfdQZHYboc_TXqIe3rN7MY

https://www.numberstacks.co.uk/?fbclid=IwAR3IMaxwMnKvvSGF0r0lFO2kGOVzoE-ufpk26ASNt24DPyZDDoveFZJh14k

 

Corona Virus Social Stories:

 

General Communication Resources

 

Sensory Activities:

 Picture Resources:

  Makaton Signing

  • https://www.makaton.org/ lots of free resources available and videos or signing. They release a sign of the week and have some resources related to specific children’s books that cost £2.50
  • Singing Hands- https://singinghands.co.uk/ This is a website which has signed songs and resources.

 Vocabulary Activities:

 Narrative Activities:

 Language Activities

 Attention and Listening Activities:

  • Follow Attention Autism facebook page as they are going to be giving ideas for how to adapt this to home tasks.

 Speech Resources

 

 

 

Home learning ideas

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Some useful apps / online Resources:

Name of App/Online Resource

Description

Cost

Star Rating (1*- 5*)

Comments

Reading Eggs

 

https://readingeggs.co.uk/

 

Spelling and phonic app teaching children to read through highly motivating games.

Ks 1-2 children

Free month trial

£6.99 per month

3.7*

Very user friendly and appealing

Nessy learning programme

 

https://www.nessy.com/uk/

 

Reading, writing and spelling app for children with Dyslexia or Literacy difficulties

Ks 1-2 children

£8 per month

5*

Nessy challenge assessed child’s level so that they are working on personalised reading and spelling goals.

Nessy Fingers Touch Typing

 

https://www.nessy.com/uk/product/nessy-fingers/

 

Simple and fun way of learning to touch type or develop keyboard skills. Ages 7-12

Free

3.9*

Enjoyable resources to help speed up children’s keyboard skills. Don’t worry too much about which hand/fingers the pupils uses – it’s more important to focus on finding the letters quickly.

BBC Dance Mat Online

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2f9j6/articles/z3c6tfr

 

Touch typing programme divided into 4 levels.

Aimed at Ks2

Free

3*

Doorway Online https://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/

Typing, Literacy and Numeracy activities

FREE

 

A collection of accessible educational games that learners will find easy to use independently. Each activity has a range of accessibility and difficulty options

 

CALL Scotland Apps Wheels

 

https://www.callscotland.org.uk/downloads/posters-and-leaflets/ipad-apps-for-learners-with-dyslexia/

 

 

https://www.callscotland.org.uk/downloads/posters-and-leaflets/ipad-apps-for-learners-with-dyscalculianumeracy-difficulties/

 

 

 

 

 

 

iPad Apps for Learners with Dyslexia

 

iPad Apps for Learners with Dyscalculia/Numeracy Difficulties

 

Varies

 

Apps help to embed learning and to give opportunities for repeated practice of concepts that cause difficulty.

 

Name of App

Description

Cost

Star Rating (1*- 5*)

Comments

Splingo’s Language Universe

A language game based on understanding instructions

£2.99

4*

You can enter how many ICW you want in an instruction, and whether you want it to include nouns/verbs/prepositions/adjectives. It’s a very useful app, and children find it very motivating.

Colourful Semantics

An app which is based on the principle of Colourful Semantics created by the London Speech Practice.

£14.99

4*

This app is based on the principle of Colourful Semantics. A picture is presented to the student, and they then have to use symbols to create a sentence about the pictures. You can adjust how much information is needed in the sentences (e.g. SV, SVO etc.)

Pogg

This app is for developing understanding of verbs by using videos of an alien acting them out

49p

4*

This is a fun app which is motivating for students to use. They point to a verb and the alien will act them out in a silly way. There is also a way for the student to say what you want the alien to do and it will act it out – there are roughly 40 verbs.

Talking Gina/Talking Tom/Talking Angela

 

Speak to the animal and it repeats back what you have said in a high pitched voice.

Free

3*

This is good for students who are reluctant to speak, or who want to hear themselves speak, or if you want to encourage students to make noises with their mouths that they can hear repeated.

Super Duper Story Maker – Free

An app which you can use to create stories using photos or pictures.

Free

 

 

Special Words

Based on Downs Ed. “See and Learn” programme.

£19.99

4*

Uses sight word recognition for photographs of objects – pictures of frequently used words for early vocabulary (and you can also take photographs of objects to make it more personal to the student).

Scene and Heard

AAC app by therapy box, which uses pictures, recorded audio and imported photographs to develop vocabulary use.

£39.99

 

 

Things That go Together

Vocabulary Builder

99p

 

 

One Step Two Step

Understanding a following directions.

£2.99

 

This helps children to listen to and follow instructions in a fun and interactive way.

Heads Up

A description game

99p

4*

This app is a fun game to play in a group – One person holds the phone/tablet up, and the others have to describe the word that is being held up. If the person guessing gets it right, then they can move on and try and guess as many as they can within a minute.

Talking Mats

 

Free

 

 

Pictello

This can be used to make Social Stories, share news, make a visual schedule etc. by taking and using photographs.

£18.99