Affiliated schools will receive:

• Email advice on supporting students with Social, Emotional, and Mental Health (SEMH) difficulties
• Email advice on supporting students with an autistic profile.
• Training on creating an 'Inclusion Framework.'
• Access to Whole School Training at a special discounted rate.
• Unlimited email advice on learning differences, strategies for specific profiles, and whole-school inclusion approaches.
• 10% discount on our training events.
• Access to transition and research projects, including:
  • Graduated Approach to Reading Provision
  • Graduated Approach to Maths Provision
  • Graduated Approach to SEMH Provision
• Support in developing an effective core SEND offer that benefits all students.

Annual cost: £200 + VAT

Please email yes@arete.uk or call 01748 850111 ext. 221 for further information or registration.

Here at YES @ Areté Learning Trust we strive to promote an understanding of Specific Learning Differences in order to support students/pupils, parents and professionals.

We focus on:

• the early identification of children and young people’s needs and early intervention to support them.
• the development of inclusive practice in order to remove
• barriers to learning.
• the provision of high-quality training.

We offer:

• support with developing inclusive practice in different settings.
• solution focused meetings with school staff, parents and
• pupils to identify barriers to learning.
• analysis of current provision focusing on impact, individual
• pupil assessment with comprehensive reporting.
• support with planning and the delivery of personalised
• literacy and numeracy programmes.
• progress reviews in person or by telephone.
• access arrangements for external exams for KS4 and KS5.

We believe that the relationship between schools, professionals and parents is incredibly important, which is why we promote a ‘Parents as Partners’ ethos.

The SEND Code of Practice places great importance on involving parents and children in identifying, understanding and taking decisions about special educational needs. We work with parents, recognising the importance of neurodiversity, to create unique pupil profiles.

For parents be at the heart of decision making about their child, it is helpful for them to be fully informed about their child’s needs.

We liaise with a number of parents support group and offer:

• bespoke support.
• workshops, meetings and specialist information sharing.
• reduced rates on all our training events for parents/carers.

For further details and to provide you with a quote please email yes@arete.uk.

Who can we support?

We provide strength-based, needs based assessment and support therefore a diagnosis is not needed to access support.

We support students with:

• communication and interaction needs
• characteristics relating to autism, ADHD and PDA.
• sensory needs.
• who have challenges attending school and/or accessing specific lessons
• dysregulation and behaviour that challenges school
• who experience anxiety and mask at school

What services do we provide?

• General advice and recommendations in-person via email, phone or through a pre-planned virtual meeting.
• Assessment and identification of need.
• Written advice outlining recommendations.
• Coaching and mentoring staff on research-based approaches of interventions.
• Modelling use of resources and evidence- based strategies of support.
• In class observations
• Specialist support for individual students
• Bespoke workshops tailored to the needs of the school, department or class.
• Signposting to services, resources and support for families

Dysregulation & Sensory Support

• Identify and assess sensory needs
• Create individual sensory plans 
• Coach and support educators to implement whole class and personalised sensory strategies.
• Provide advice on how to use a low arousal approach with individual students.
• Provide advice on personalised strategies that will support regulation and regulate the nervous system.
• Conduct neurodiversity environment audits

Emotional Based School Anxiety

• Identify barriers that impact on the student accessing school and/or specific lessons.
• Provide advice and recommendations that will support the reduction of barriers.
• Identify trigger points within the environment.
• Provide advice and recommendations to minimise the impact of trigger points within the environment.
• Develop holistic, progressive plans that reflect the identified needs of the student.

Communication & Engagement

The support outlined below does not replace, but will compliment, speech and language therapy. 

• Provide advice on barriers to communication and recommend whole class approaches and tailored strategies.
• Assessment of need for students who have limited or no verbal communication
• Advise on how to use visual supports for all students and those needing targeted provision.
• Using interest- based approaches to support engagement
• Modelling evidence- based approaches to support communication and engagement 
• Modelling evidence- based approaches to support students with planning, organising and retaining information.

Transitions

• Assessment of communication and interaction needs to support transitions
• Support transitions in the early years
• Support transitions between key stages.
• Support transitions between key phases of a student’s school career.

Bespoke Workshops  

All workshops include an initial in person or pre planned virtual consultation to discuss the current needs and challenges within your setting. This will support in creating workshops that meet the specific needs of your setting.

Workshops are tailored to the relevant curriculum and key stage, including the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum.

All workshops are knowledge based and include a toolbox of practical strategies to explore that can be used to support neurodiversity in schools.

Who are the workshops for?

The workshops will be beneficial for educators, families and supporting professionals who are supporting young people who have the following needs or have personal interests in:

• Understanding Neurodiversity
• Neurodiversity workshops specific to the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum and play-based learning.
• Autism
• Autism and anxiety
• ADHD
• Sensory Processing
• Social, emotional and mental health
• Dysregulation
• Masking and Internal Dysregulation.
• Physical dysregulation and behaviours that challenge the setting

INFORMATION FLYER

Training on Understanding and Supporting Students with ADHD

• These sessions are designed to equip your staff with the knowledge and strategies necessary to effectively support students with ADHD in the classroom.
• Led by Kath Lawson (Lead for Inclusion – Areté Learning Trust)
• Cost: £150 + VAT plus travel expenses
• The training can be scheduled after school at a time that is most convenient for you and your team.

For further details and to schedule your training session, please email yes@arete.uk.

Training on Understanding and Supporting Students with Autism

• These sessions are designed to equip your staff with the knowledge and strategies necessary to effectively support students with Autism in the classroom.
• Led by Kath Lawson (Lead for Inclusion – Areté Learning Trust)
• Cost: £150 + VAT plus travel expenses
• The training can be scheduled after school at a time that is most convenient for you and your team.

For further details and to schedule your training session, please email yes@arete.uk.

Bespoke Training by a Neurodiversity Practitioner

• All workshops include an initial in person or pre planned virtual consultation to discuss the current needs and challenges within your setting. This will support in creating workshops that meet the specific needs of your setting.

• Workshops are tailored to the relevant curriculum and key stage, including the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum.

• All workshops are knowledge based and include a toolbox of practical strategies to explore that can be used to support neurodiversity in schools.

• Led by Hannah Wilkinson (Neurodiversity Practioner - Areté Learning Trust)
• The training can be scheduled after school at a time that is most convenient for you and your team.

Who are these workshops for?

The workshops will be beneficial for educators, families and supporting professionals who are supporting young people who have the following needs or have personal interests in:

• Understanding Neurodiversity
• Neurodiversity workshops specific to the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum and play-based learning.
• Autism
• Autism and anxiety
• ADHD
• Sensory Processing
• Social, emotional and mental health
• Dysregulation
• Masking and Internal Dysregulation.
• Physical dysregulation and behaviours that challenge the setting

For further details and to schedule your training session, please email yes@arete.uk.

Training on Conscious Breathing - Supporting young people to become calm and focussed

• Breathwork is the perfect wellness strategy for schools and parents to support both adults and pupils of any age, as it addresses core areas of health, physical, mental and emotional, in a simple, accessible way.
• Led by Steffy Cappleman (SOMA Breath Advanced Instructor)
• Cost: £150 + VAT plus travel expenses
• The training can be scheduled after school at a time that is most convenient for you and your team.

For further details and to schedule your training session, please email yes@arete.uk.