5 sheets for children to practice their fine motor control. Linked to your topic on mini beasts or animals. Laminate and add to your writing corner with dry markers.

A set of shapes for children to improve their cutting skills. There are 11 large shapes and 2 pages showing small shapes which can be used for assessment.

*Licenced to use, produce and sell resources using Boardmaker symbols. A resource for SEN children, also suitable for EYFS and KS1. Link with your science lessons and/or outdoor learning. There are 3 worksheets where children name and label the pictures and then write a sentence 1.Outdoors 2. Flowers and Plants 3. In the Garden Included is a set of Boardmaker symbols in colour and the same in black and white. Add these to brighten up your displays, for speaking and listening and for use as flashcards. Laminate and use in the outdoor learning space.

This resource contains images of activity ideas. These activity ideas can support children with handwriting and fine motor control. They give the staff or parents working with the children ideas too which are sometimes hard to find or come up with. 8 sets of colour activity card sets are included here. These cover: Fine motor isolation skills e.g. using a finger to finger paint Releases e.g. adding a brick to a tower and releasing Grasps e.g. pincer or spherical Hand and finger manipulation e.g. working with puppets Hand strengthening e.g. cutting out or pouring Hand Eye coordination e.g. target work or threading Left/Right awareness e.g. following directions Crossing the midline e.g. tennis or finger rhymes Each set of cards is a different colour so that staff and children can identify the skills they are or need to work with/on. The cards can be cut out and used for labels for collections of fine motor skills activities. They can be used on a choosing board for children to have a say in their own learning and activities.

A black and white and colour version of this weather board is included. The boards are a useful visual aid to support children / pupils with their speaking and listening and communication as well as writing about the weather. *PCS Licenced - Boardmaker symbols

Here are 4 worksheets in black and white for children who are moving up or on to a new class or school. The questions will help them to think about things that are important to them from this year, as well as look forward to the next step of their learning journey. The picture and shape outlines provide a writing scaffold with minimal writing for those who would find this difficult. Suitable for SEN pupils. Children can draw, write key words, captions or sentences as appropriate for them. Questions include important dates, people, happy thoughts and visits, three best moments, 4 feelings and what to put in a first aid kit when moving on.

A set of communication cards for young children or SEND children. There are two versions . These children shown are all boys (Girls version to follow in future). Set 1 and 2 show boys sharing how they feel when unwell. Set 3 and 4 shows pictures of what can be done to support them. The last page is a blank template for you to use.

This resource links with SEN, Healthy Lifestyles, Looking after Ourselves, People who Help us, Me, Ourselves, Feelings and Literacy: reading, writing and speaking and listening. There are two communication boards - I don’t feel well and At the Hospital. I don’t feel well - this board shows children displaying a range of emotions when they are unwell. At the Hospital board - this board shows words of things/people that you might find at the hospital. There is a matching worksheet for each board where children write a word or phrase beneath the 12 colour pictures. Page 5 asks children to think of words and phrases a doctor might say to them and complete the boxes by writing in their own words. Page 6 shows a nurse instead of a doctor. Again children fill in the empty boxes with their own words or phrases. A useful resource for children who may be experiencing medical problems or may have to visit a hospital. Use together with social stories.

*Licenced to use, produce and sell resources using Boardmaker symbols. This resource includes colour flashcards of the months of the year with 8 to an A4 page. Cut and laminate these for sorting activities and to add to displays. There is a colour and black and white version of the worksheet where the 12 months are included. These small cards can be cut out and sequenced. The black and white ones can be coloured in. Add to class displays or individual symbol boards. The final page shows a template sheet where children can add their own pictures to the months of the year.

A set of resources with a Senses theme suitable for SEND pupils and KS1. Boardmaker symbols are included. Page 1 shows sample resources included. Pages 2/3 - A Sensory Table outline to use with the small cut out colour card collection shown on page 3. Pages 4 -7 are sets of 6 cards related to each of the senses: sound, smell, touch, taste, sight and a set of shape cards included. Cut and laminate the cards and children can use them to indicate what they see, hear, smell, taste or touch. The cards can be cut up and used together with a collection of the relevant objects that are easily accessible. You could use a feely bag, a blindfold or a box with armholes cut out for children to reach inside. The next page is a set of questions to cut out and use. Finally there is a poster to talk about related to the senses. Children could make their own posters. *PCS Licenced - Boardmaker symbols.

3 differentiated word searches for EYFS /KS1 and Send pupils. Each of the word searches has picture support and there are corresponding answer sheets included. Links to topics on Celebrations, New Year, Winter and spelling and word work in literacy.

2 Christmas tracing pattern sheets for children to support their fine motor / pencil control.

*PCS Licenced - Boardmaker symbols. 40 cards to cut and laminate and use in your lessons on number or addition. Add to your maths tables or corners or use for early finishers or wet play activities. Links to numeracy and toy topics.

A set of 5 pages of colour flashcards related to the lovely story by John Burningham ‘The Shopping Basket’. Most images are symbols with some pictures. Flashcards include the animals in the story, the food on the shopping list, characters and ordinal numbers. These cards can be used in a range of ways such as matching up the animals with the foods, sequencing the story, ordering the numbers - the cards can also enhance any display work. Other activities could include a Scavenger hunt around school, food sorting and talking, story mapping, role play and creative art work such as a collage shopping basket. *PCS Licenced - Boardmaker symbols.

A simple writing template for children to support them when writing their weekend news. There is space for a drawing, key words and writing.

5 sets of black and white picture cards related to the Fair. There are 8 picture of symbol cards on each page. Children can cut these out, colour them in and use them to talk or write about the fair. Duplicate for matching games. Use as visual aids and for displays. Boardmaker licenced

Assessment or Homework sheets for Literacy. 3 differentiated target sheets for children to write their spellings on. Sheet 1 is for 4 words Sheet 2 is for 8 words Sheet 3 is for 12 words There are 2 sheets per page for you to print out and cut in half for your children. Use to write different spellings in each section or for children to practice one or two words in each section.

A fun with food activity where children design and make their own pizza using symbols and words. Page 1 is an outline planning pizza that can be used for children to write words on of what they would like on their pizza or draw pictures. Page 2 shows 2 sets of symbol cards that can be cut and matched or items cut out and added to the outline template to make the pizzas. Boardmaker licenced.

5 worksheets where children can improve their fine motor control. Each sheet has a different theme: alphabet, numbers, animals, weather and key words. These sheets can be used as worksheets or laminated and added to your writing corner with dry markers. Children trace over the dots and colour the pictures.

A colour worksheet where children name and label the animals. There is a word bank included to support children that need it. There are 15 animals to name and label.