Wiltshire Council’s new Mainstream Inclusion School Advisor team have shared the following free, educational online videos and resources with us. They are suitable for school and home.
Learn and Thrive
Learn and Thrive is a charity which produces educational resources for children and young people with Down’s syndrome and other special educational needs. Created during lockdown, it aims to provide specialist teaching online, to be used across educational settings and in the home. The two projects, Teach Me Too and Learning for Life, cater for different age groups. The resources are all completely FREE digital tools to help children and young people with Down’s syndrome and SEN to learn and thrive.
[Learn and Thrive website]
While created originally with the learning profile of children and young people with Down's syndrome, the resources are also useful to a wider range of special educational needs and disabilities. Find out more [HERE]
Teach Me Too
Teach Me Too provides resources for early years and Key Stage 1. It covers Literacy, Maths, the Wider Curriculum, Exploring Language, and Language through Play. These resources are created with specialist speech and language therapists for children with Down’s syndrome/ special educational needs, to be used at home, in school, or at support groups.
Teach Me Too is created by Learn and Thrive and is dedicated to utilising innovation and technology to break down barriers to education and learning for every person with Down's syndrome. As a result, all the resources can be access completely FREE and are exclusively online.
Accessing Teach Me Too
[Further information on Teach Me Too]
[Sign up form]
Click [HERE] to see results from an independent evaluation of the Teach Me Too project across education settings in Hertfordshire.
Learning for Life
Learning for Life covers late primary, secondary, and beyond school, focusing on the Relationships and Sexual Education curriculum. The resources are created in line with what the Down’s syndrome community needs.
Current resources explore Growing Up and Keeping Safe, Emotions, Puberty and Caring Friendships. These resources are created with specialists for young people with Down’s syndrome and other SEN. Learning for Life is created by Learn and Thrive, which is dedicated to utilising innovation and technology to break down barriers to education and learning for every person with Down's syndrome. Access and use of the project is completely FREE.
Accessing Learning for Life
[More information about Learning for Life]
[Sign up form]
You may also be interested in taking a look at their social media links too, where new series are announced and general updates are shared. On their YouTube channel, there are some full versions of their videos to preview.
[Facebook]
[Instagram]
[YouTube]
[LinkedIn]
|
