Practical Skills at School

• Practical Skills for Pre-school

  • Activities to encourage exploration of different textures »

  • Activities to encourage gross motor skills (large movements) »

  • Choosing a school »

  • Painting and other activities »

  • Preparing for pre-school »

  • Reading with your child »

  • Ready for writing - strengthening hands for writing »

  • Ready for writing - seating and desks »

  • Reinforcing reading and spelling »

  • Scissor skills activities »

  • Scissors skills »

  • Scooter riding »

  • Social and emotional »

  • Toileting for school »

  • Transition to primary school »

• Practical Skills for Primary School

  • Homework-working with your child »

  • Classroom skills

    • Fiddle toys »

    • Mathematics- making it real »

    • Pens- to assist with handwriting »

    • Reading and spelling- encouraging »

    • Rulers »

    • Scissor skills »

    • Scissor skills activities »

    • Writing and recording difficulties »

    • Writing frames and getting ideas down »

    • Writing skills »

  • Cooking with your child »

  • Free downloadable resources »

  • Learning styles - recognising »

  • Leisure activities- non team based »

  • Mathematics »

  • Pencil Grips »

  • Preparing for

    • Behaviour at break and lunchtimes »

    • Changing for PE »

    • Planning for the next day »

    • Transition to primary school »

  • Reading »

  • Revision - learning for tests »

  • Rulers »

  • Shoe lace tying »

  • Social boundaries »

  • Tests and examinations – preparing »

  • Transition from primary to secondary school »

  • Typing »

• Practical Skills for Secondary School

  • Around school

    • Lunchtimes - coping in a canteen »

  • Careers guidance »

  • Exams

    • Exam arrangements »

    • Tests and exams preparing »

  • Preparing for secondary school

    • ICT equipment »

    • Toilets »

    • Transition to secondary school »

  • Preparing to leave »

  • Social and emotional

    • Social boundaries- being with others »

  • Sports and Activities

    • Changing for PE »

    • Sporting ideas »

  • Study ,Classroom Skills and ICT

    • Creating mind maps »

    • Easy to use scissors »

    • Encouraging reading skills »

    • Free text to speech software »

    • Handwriting »

    • Homework- getting it down in class »

    • Rulers »

    • Seating and desks »

    • Typing »

    • Writing and recording »

• Practical Skills in FE and University

  • Advice for parents

    • Choosing college or university »

    • Preparing to leave home »

  • Exams

    • Exam- special arrangements »

  • Preparing for FE and Uni

    • Before arriving at FE/University »

    • Cooking at university or college »

    • Disclosing »

    • Driving-with additional learning needs »

    • Organising yourself to manage work and play »

    • Preparing to go to university »

    • Seeking student support »

  • Preparing To Leave

    • Application forms »

    • Choosing careers »

    • CV writing »

    • Dress code for interviews »

    • Interviews »

    • Writing a covering letter »

  • Social and emotional

    • Cognitive behavioural therapy approaches »

    • Going out ideas »

    • Sports opportunties- disabled »

    • Stress reduction- ideas to help »

    • Useful books »

    • Useful organisations to help »

  • Study Skills

    • Organising your workspace »

    • Study skills -useful books and websites »

  • Websites - useful software »