A Whole School Approach to #mindfulness

A whole school approach to Mindfulness The Mindful Garden Programme by Terri Allen & Jacqui Gray The Mindful Garden is a mindfulness programme, tailored especially for primary schools. Mindfulness helps children to be in the moment by maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of their thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment.  This is something that they naturally do when they are very little but a skill that tends to get lost, as they grow older. Mindfulness is proving to be very beneficial for concentration and self-awareness. It can also help to: Increase a child’s attention as they become more grounded in the moment Increase social emotional awareness Help with anxiety issues Leave the children feeling calmer The Mindful Garden uses techniques that have been validated with studies which have linked mindfulness to better focus, relaxation and wellbeing as well as boosted memory. These techniques include breathing, visualizing, positive affirmations and relaxation. The program is suitable for an early morning refresher, PSHE, Circle Time or Literacy hour. It can also serve teachers and students to end their day with a mindful moment. The Mindful Garden Programme includes: Nine detailed Illustrations for mindfulness reinforcement. Six guided visualizations Descriptions of the visualizations along with their areas of benefit Scripts and Tips for teachers for better lesson planning Selected soothing music to create the right environment My Magical Garden Book + Meditation CD The Mindful Garden Programme contains 9 beautifully illustrated pages and on each page there are a selection of choices. The children choose one thing from the illustrated page and their selected choice becomes the focus of their attention during the mindfulness session. Included is a script to go with each illustrated page enabling the teacher to guide the children through the mindfulness session. It also includes some questions that can be directed towards the children at the end of the session for feedback on their experience.     The Mindful Garden £50 + VAT Ref: 503-50316-49 CLICK HERE TO ORDER Schools & educational establishments can ORDER ON ACCOUNT CLICK HERE To Order: By phone: (01604) 870 828 By fax: (01604) 870 986 By email: orders@incentiveplus.co.uk By post: Incentive Plus, PO Box 928, Northampton, NN7 9AP By the website: http://www.incentiveplus.co.uk Stay connected with Incentive Plus, the UK's largest supplier of social, emotional, behavioural, mental health and well-being resources for all ages.… <% unsub_english %>

A PSHE Quality Assured Resource to Tackle Teenage Issues

REALLY? A Hard Hitting Film Resource to Approach Tough Teenage Issues "The whole resource is best considered as a powerful catalyst for learning that sets important issues in a real life context and provides a series of strong starting points for subsequent learning. This resource doesn’t attempt to show false ‘happy endings’ or offer simplistic messages, instead leaving it open for pupils to explore their own feelings and construct their own strategies." - Nick Boddington, PSHE Association’s Subject Lead A PSHE Association Quality Assured Resource, Really? is built around a powerful piece of drama which explores key PSHE education topics and themes. The resource pack tackles: Teenage Pregnancy Drugs Bullying Self-Harm Sexual Orientation Emotional Neglect Healthy Lifestyles The film brings together a number of characters, each with their own issues and personal stories that gradually emerge during the course of the time they spend together. The content and style is probably best suited for years 10 and 11 although this could be adapted for a number of age ranges. Ref: 504-50297-46 £99 + VAT CLICK HERE TO ORDER Unlike the ‘usual’ PSHE style information videos, Really? will keep young people engaged and is guaranteed to drive rich discussion on a number of key subjects. The film is accompanied by a resource pack put together by Wellbeing and Education Specialists, designed to fully support the presentation of the film. Contents: Film DVD and Character Extras A-Z Signposting Pack Lesson Plans Teaching Guide Character Profiles Film Poster "The film is excellent and relevant to the students and was easily used with a range of other activities to explore the issues in more depth." - Michelle Johnston, Aylesford School Sports College To see the trailer click here. REALLY? FILM AND RESOURCE PACK Ref: 504-50297-46 £99 + VAT CLICK HERE TO ORDER Schools & educational establishments can ORDER ON ACCOUNT CLICK HERE To Order: By phone: (01604) 870 828 By fax: (01604) 870 986 By email: orders@incentiveplus.co.uk By post: Incentive Plus, PO Box 928, Northampton, NN7 9AP By the website: http://www.incentiveplus.co.uk Stay connected with Incentive Plus, the UK's largest supplier of social, emotional, behavioural, mental health and well-being resources for all ages.…

How to Improve SPaG Test Results

Spelling Tutor is a personalised, structured program which teaches around 90% of the words we use every day - the first 1,000 high frequency words, and all the words in the 2014 Spelling Curriculum. Click here to begin your free trial now. The program is designed to be used on any mac, computer, iPad or tablet by children for 10 minutes daily (they also need a mini whiteboard/ scrap paper to write on). Spelling Tutor is the only intervention to use spaced repetition to commit the word to long term memory and recognises the importance of linking spelling to handwriting. It places words in sentences to aid vocabulary understanding and reinforces spelling rules and patterns, explaining them to the pupil. The program is flexible, allowing the teacher to add words if required. "I have been using Spelling Tutor for a term with seven year 5 children, who had very poor spelling. They program takes 10 minutes a day, and the spellings were personalised for each pupil. After playing Spelling Tutor every school day for a term the average spelling age increase was 16 months! But also their confidence in their daily written work grew, which was lovely to see." - Tanya Costa, Y5 teacher, Whitehall Junior School How it works: A personal list of words is created from the pupil's mistakes. These words are tested again and again, with larger and larger gaps between each test, which transfers the spelling from short term to long term memory This innovative program asks pupils to write sentences and words from dictation, because writing is the best way to learn spelling. The pupil then marks their own work, which further reinforces the correct spelling and encourages them to take ownership for their own learning. Research shows spaced repetition works because children more easily remember things when they are studied a few times spaced over a long time span rather than repeatedly studied in a short space of time. This is why learning words for an end of week spelling test often doesn't improve spelling. The words are soon forgotten. Whereas with spaced repetition the words are transferred from short term to long term memory. Spelling Tutor is different because you only practise the words you get wrong. The more you get them wrong, the more often they are shown to you. With Spelling Tutor you never need to tell the program you have finished learning these words and want the next list. It uses the spaced repetition algorithm to determine when to test a word. Then every day it adds a few new words to the list you are learning. The pricing differs depending on how many pupils you want to cater to: For 10 Licences - £150 Ref: 505-50303-47 For 20 Licences - £250 Ref: 505-50304-47 For a Whole School Licence - £500 Ref: 505-50305-47 Before you purchase the licences you will have the chance to conduct a 2 week free trial to see if the program is right for you and your school. SPELLING TUTOR Ref: 505-50305-47 CLICK HERE TO ORDER Schools & educational establishments can ORDER ON ACCOUNT CLICK HERE To Order: By phone: (01604) 870 828 By fax: (01604) 870 986 By email: orders@incentiveplus.co.uk By post: Incentive Plus, PO Box 928, Northampton, NN7 9AP By the website: http://www.incentiveplus.co.uk Stay connected with Incentive Plus, the UK's largest supplier of social, emotional, behavioural, mental health and well-being resources for all ages.…