1. I have a dedicated social skills
My teachers keep my environment Orange Communication and Learning Package: to support curriculum to learn about making
organized and structured. This helps
me stay calm, feel safe, puts me in a
students who are able to put sentences together to tell stories. friends with people. Teachers might
also choose a specific skill to teach me
great mood for learning and I know when I’m finding interaction difficult.
what to do in each part of the
classroom.
Activity schedules let me know
Daily schedules, weekly timetables and
what I’m meant to be doing
calendars help me learn the days of the I am learning how to be in charge of
within a lesson. They let me
week and the months of the year and my own language difficulties. Learning
know the order in which
I am learning how to manage my own what I’m doing at those times. I can also how to use active listening to monitor
happens or remind me what I
state of alertness. Teachers use The learn how to use them to get involved in my understanding of language is
need to complete a particular
Alert Program and other strategies to organizing my time and talking about important if I am to become an
activity. Checklists can help me
help me achieve this. This is important things I’ve done, or am going to do. independent learner.
organize myself.
for me to self regulate myself
throughout the day so I can learn and
interact.
My teachers use a combination Letters
and Sounds, Jolly Phonics, pre writing
My teachers use an adapted and handwriting programs to teach
curriculum to differentiate the me how to read and write.
National Curriculum for me. Lessons
are interactive, related to my
experiences, interests and sensory
learning preferences. Using sequencing cards helps me put
my thoughts in order when I’m
telling a story. They also remind me
of the order that I need to tell things
Daily exercise and learning how to get in. This is called creating narrative.
involved in playground games are
great ways of developing self-esteem,
confidence, social skills and helps me
MAKATON signs might be used in my
to develop more sophisticated fine and
classroom to help me learn and
gross motor skills.
remember difficult words.
My teachers make sure I I get time during the day I Talk to my teachers if you want me to All About Me Books I might find it difficult to
get lots of opportunities to have opportunities to play. learn something useful at school that remind me of the things understand spoken language -
develop my independence Learning how to play will would be useful to help me out at home. I’ve done. I can use it to especially if you give me lots of
skills. It’s really, really help my language skills to Parent teacher partnerships are tell my family what I’ve instructions in one go! Try to
important that you help develop and give me important if I am to use all my skills in done at school and my explain new words and support
me learn how to do things practice playing with other different places. Ask to join the Expert teachers what I’ve done complex instructions with written
by myself. children. parent Program. in my spare time! words or pictures.