Inclusion

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Identifying Special Educational Needs In The Early Years

How do we know whether normal individual variation and differing speeds of maturation are masking a special need? Sal McKeown reports on an important new study

8 Jun
Sal McKeown

Inclusion

Employment Is Not Exclusive And Is ‘Everybody’s Business’

Supported Internships can help SEND students make the move from education to employment, Angie Hincks from NSIP explains how.

7 Jun 2021
24mins
Angie Hincks

Inclusion

Inclusion, Aspiration & The Power of Sport

Sport can empower children with disabilities in a way that nothing else can. Alistair Crawford, from St Martins School Darby, describes his experience and how to get support in your school or club

7 Jun 2021
24mins
Alistair Crawford

Inclusion

A Salutary Tale Of Two Neuro-Diverse, and Socially Diverse, Boys

Professor Amanda Kirby explores how confirmation bias - the tendency to process information by looking for, or interpreting information that is consistent with one’s existing beliefs - can lead to the mis-diagnosis and response to children, often limiting their life-chances.

7 Jun 2021
24mins
Amanda Kirby

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Inclusion

Book Talking

Annie Everall OBE, of Authors Aloud UK, reviews young children’s books related to wellbeing and resilience. She will be writing a regular column for The Inclusion Journal.

14 Jun

Inclusion

Having Difficulty With Reading and Writing Shouldn’t Be A Barrier To Learning

Ten percent of the population are believed to be dyslexic, but it is still often poorly understood. With the right support, the strengths and talents of dyslexic people can really shine.

14 Jun

Inclusion

Gambling – An Insidious Harm We Need To Address

Dr Asha Patel, clinical psychologist and CEO of not-for-profit Innovating Minds, discusses the increasingly blurred line between gaming and gambling and the impact on young people’s mental health

7 Jun

Inclusion

A Salutary Tale Of Two Neuro-Diverse, and Socially Diverse, Boys

7 Jun

Inclusion

Our Journey Beyond Age-Related Expectations and into Thinking, Resilience And Empathy

The children at Rimrose Hope School in Sefton were, despite its disadvantaged community, performing well above their expected levels. But something was missing in their core abilities to learn and reflect. Lawrence Crilly reports on how the staff responded

7 Jun

Inclusion

Decolonising The Curriculum

Knowledge is power but whose knowledge is it? asks Naheeda Maharasingam, head teacher Rathfern Primary School in Lewisham

16 Apr

Inclusion

Award Winning Deaf Teacher An Inspiration For Deaf and Hearing Children Alike

My most uplifting moment of the year so far was when I interviewed Alysha Allen, who has won the 2020 Teacher Of The Year Award despite being profoundly deaf

26 Jan

Inclusion

How Can Teachers Promote The Skills Of Self-Regulation In Young Children?

‘Self-regulation’ has become a hot topic, appearing in materials and publications from both the DfE and Ofsted and it will be in n of the EYFS statutory framework due to come into force from September 2021. Sue Cowley draws from her new book to explore the learning behaviours required

15 Jan

Inclusion

The Importance Of Seeing Yourself In What You Read

One third of ethic minority children don’t recognise themselves in any texts they read and this is undermining their commitment to reading, according to new research. Emily Best, of the National Literacy Association in the UK, explains the findings.

11 Jan

Inclusion

Behaviour Management In An inclusive Classroom: A Masterclass

Good personal relationships are one of the foundations for effective behaviour management and high levels of student attainment, but there is an important stage before this, as Patrick Garton explains.

8 Jan

Inclusion

A Little Robot Friend On The Desk Can Help Troubled Students Back To School

AV1 keeps children with cancer in touch with their schools. Now it is a channel for blended learning and could be a lifeline for children with poor mental health

18 Dec

Inclusion

The Advantages Of Tutoring For Disadvantaged Children

So many attempts have been tried to close the achievement gap. Most of them do not seem sustainable or scalable and the gap has widened with Lockdown. Susannah Hardymann believes that tutoring can be a big part of any viable catch-up solution.

5 Oct

Inclusion

How Coaching Can Create A Thinking, Learning School

Coaching enables teachers to focus on learning rather than teaching and helps them to understand themselves and their practice, advocates Kulvarn Atwel, executive head of two outstanding schools in London

5 Oct

Inclusion

Public Libraries Can Drive The Lockdown Agenda – Even With Covid-19!

Sue Williamson insists that school libraries’ role in education and inclusion has actually increased during the Pandemic

5 Oct

Inclusion

Do We Need To Move Children’s Mental Health And Wellbeing Centre Stage

After attending yet another mental health course which raised awareness of the issues faced in schools but offered little in the way of solutions, Paula Talman decided to do something about it. So she set up the iSpace Wellbeing Curriculum

14 Sep

Inclusion

Rescuing A Generation At Risk From Covid and Exclusions

A project at Lyng School In Coventry, which has 50 per cent of its children on free school meals, has shown remarkable success in keeping all its children engaged during the lockdown. Sonia Blandford describes the project and argues that it should be rolled out across the country.

11 Aug

Inclusion

Parental Engagement Is Good. But What Does It Really Mean?

Campaigning broadly for parental engagement often doesn’t reach the parents you most want to. For these parents, engagement has to be case specific, and involve partnership working at home and at school, explains Maureen Hunt

31 Jul

Inclusion

Jessica’s Story: Responding To Children Who Have Suffered Traumatic Loss

A child’s behaviour can spiral out of control in the aftermath of losing a loved relative or parents separating. Putting these children into detention or suspending them, is the opposite of how a school should respond. Dr Margot Sunderland describes what happened to Jessica

31 Jul

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Featured

Identifying Special Educational Needs In The Early Years

Employment Is Not Exclusive And Is ‘Everybody’s Business’

Inclusion, Aspiration & The Power of Sport

A Salutary Tale Of Two Neuro-Diverse, and Socially Diverse, Boys

Most recent

Book Talking

Having Difficulty With Reading and Writing Shouldn’t Be A Barrier To Learning

Gambling – An Insidious Harm We Need To Address

A Salutary Tale Of Two Neuro-Diverse, and Socially Diverse, Boys

Our Journey Beyond Age-Related Expectations and into Thinking, Resilience And Empathy

Decolonising The Curriculum

Award Winning Deaf Teacher An Inspiration For Deaf and Hearing Children Alike

How Can Teachers Promote The Skills Of Self-Regulation In Young Children?

The Importance Of Seeing Yourself In What You Read

Behaviour Management In An inclusive Classroom: A Masterclass

A Little Robot Friend On The Desk Can Help Troubled Students Back To School

The Advantages Of Tutoring For Disadvantaged Children

How Coaching Can Create A Thinking, Learning School

Public Libraries Can Drive The Lockdown Agenda – Even With Covid-19!

Do We Need To Move Children’s Mental Health And Wellbeing Centre Stage

Rescuing A Generation At Risk From Covid and Exclusions

Parental Engagement Is Good. But What Does It Really Mean?

Jessica’s Story: Responding To Children Who Have Suffered Traumatic Loss

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