Support for Wellbeing and Pupils with SEND
Please find below some information to support you and your child whilst learning at home. If you need to get in touch please use the email address: smisenco@thewestbrooktrust.org
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Emotional Support
Below is some information to support you and your child whilst learning at home.
These links are support documents from ELSA that may help children to understand and express the changes in their worlds right now:
Dave the Dog (this is a book about coronavirus that the youngest children can understand)
There is also a children’s book, which has recently been written for children (5 to 9 years old) to help them understand what the Coronavirus is and what we should all be doing, it also acknowledges some of the feelings children might be feeling:
https://nosycrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Coronavirus-A-Book-for-Children.pdf
The following resources have been provided by our school Educational Psychologist and Play Therapist:
The Superhero Stays at Home story is aimed to help children understand why they are having to stay indoors and the important role they are playing.
Social stories are written for parents/ carers who are still working through these difficult times and have been written in a word format so that they can be changed and personalised. The idea with a social story is to read it with your child before you go to work. They work best if you can personalise them with photos.
Wellbeing
Useful links may include:
Support for Adults that might be struggling with COVID-19 anxiety
Some ebooks available on loan to help children who are struggling with anxiety
Speech and Language
To support children's speech, language and communication needs, the speech and Language team have set up a Parent Portal. This will provide free advice, information, activities and resources. The link is Speech and Language
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ASD
You may find the below document useful :
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You may find it useful to have a simple visual timetable at home to help sequence the day for children to understand the tasks they need to do during a day. You could use a first and then board e.g. first maths task then lunch or reading then play in the garden. This could be extended to first: maths, then: reading, after: garden.