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Inclusive Rugby Skills Festival
Fairfield Farm College Sports Leaders course have been working with Bath Rugby Foundation coaches to plan an ‘Inclusive Rugby Skills Festival’ for local primary school pupils with additional needs. The coaches helped them
to learn how to organise and deliver a variety of different activities during the planning session. The Sports Leaders worked well as a team and developed some fantastic ideas for the event, which is being planned for October 2021.
ffc.ac.uk
Autism and Education Conference
11 November 2021
Join the one-day online conference aimed at education professionals.
Increase your
understanding and
knowledge of autism
and best practice in supporting autistic children at school. Hear from leading speakers and learn from research, innovations and evidence-based approaches.
With fantastic sessions on: mental health & wellbeing; exclusion; girls in education; sensory differences; emotional regulation; transition; social relationships
Don’t miss out and book your place today.
Find out more: autism.org.uk/education-conference
A toolkit to help the 1.4 million children who struggle with speech and language*
With WellComm, you can screen children from 6 months to 11 years for speech and language delays in just 20 minutes, and provide immediate support with play-based activities included within the toolkit.
Instant reports enable you to take action straight away, and the optional Online Report Wizard will automatically generate a personalised profile with a list of targeted interventions.
Find out more at gl-assessment.co.uk/WellComm or contact them directly: hello@gl-assessment.co.uk
or 0330 123 5375, quoting GL3074.
*ICAN annual report 2018-19
Technology transforming learning
Diagnosed with dyspraxia, twelve-year-old Aidan always found reading difficult.
Aidan worked with language therapists, but reading remained problematic, he struggled to keep up with schoolwork.
Aidan was blown away by
discovering OrCam Read – an intuitive ‘point-and-click’ handheld device that quickly reads full pages of text and screens.
Aidan: “I’m able to do schoolwork by myself now! And I can read and enjoy a whole book on my own.”
Aidan’s Mum: “The OrCam Read promotes independent access to text – enabling Aiden to understand and successfully complete teachers’ assignments.”
For more information: orcam.com/en/read/
IBEForuM hosts Smart School Summit – Saudi (Virtual) to focus on the challenges of the education sector
Saudi Arabia’s education sector is the largest in GCC, with 300 thousand Kindergartens, 5.5M in Primary Education, 1.4M in Higher Education and 128 Thousand in Technical Education. COVID-19 has proven to be the driving force
to boost e-learning. This conference is designed to bring together digital learning solution providers from all over the globe that will cater to Saudi’s Vision 2030, modernising and digitising the education sector and solving the challenges of digital learning.
For more details, visit smartschoolsummit.com
AA & DSA Interactive Guide
The easy-to-use interactive guide to Access Arrangements & Disabled Students Allowance is an intuitive way to find our clinical, JCQ or SACS approved range of assessments,
that provide the
crucial evidence your
students’ need to support their application process.
With in-depth descriptions and easy to read reasonable adjustment tables, this downloadable PDF will help you find the right test for your student’s unique examination needs.
Find the right assessment for your student:
pearsonclinical.co.uk/aadsanov
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