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school refusal

School refusal – Who is refusing? And how can we help?

School Refusal You can probably tell from the title, that I don’t like the term ‘school refusal’. Firstly, it isn’t accurate. The child or young person is not refusing to go to school. They can’t or won’t go because they have experienced school-based trauma. When I’m talking about this topic, I refer to the learner […]

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A SERVE AND RETURN : SCHOOL & FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS

SCHOOL AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS ‘Research from Ofsted finds poor relationships with parents can add significantly to low morale and poor wellbeing in teaching’ (Independent Education today, 2019).  On reading this article by Julian Owen on the importance of school and parent relationships, I was compelled to put pen to paper – not only to reiterate

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Differentiation for your neurodivergent learner

Differentiation for your neurodivergent learner tip 1

Adjust the rate of information and allow processing time During my 23 years of teaching, the one thing that has made the greatest difference to both learning and behaviour in my classroom has been allowing processing time. This can be done by adjusting the rate of information or giving more time and space to process,

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image of numerous safe lock combinations illustrating working memory

What is working memory? How can allowing more processing time help working memory issues?

The working memory is function of the mind and brain where we store pieces of information which we only need to remember for a short period of time.    This may include pattern, sequences, codes or instructions. To give you a day-to-day example of this, imagine that you’ve got some kind of passcode from your

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total communication

How to Create a Total Communication Environment, a blog by Catrina Lowri

How to Create a Total Communication Environment Catrina Lowri is the creator of Neuroteachers, a company dedicated to finding simple solutions for inclusive practice. She is an experienced SENCO, advisory teacher and qualified special needs teacher who works as a private specialist teacher, trainer, mentor and coach. She is Lead Trainer for the North Somerset,

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Five Easy Steps to Recruiting Neurodivergent Educators

Five Easy Steps to Recruiting Neurodivergent Educators

Five Easy Steps to Recruiting Neurodivergent Educators Catrina Lowri is a neurodivergent (ND) teacher, trainer, and coach. As well as having 22 years’ experience of working in education, she also speaks as a dyslexic and bipolar woman, who had her own unique journey through the education system. I recently spoke at a conference for the

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