Particularly useful for year 11 students and 6th form students with ASD or social communication difficulties. Often parents are pushing for more independence and young people are scared of making phone calls or talking to receptionists. This resource can be used in a role place Then office to office phones in a school environment On one occassion I was working out of my office and calling up to 6th form to role play ordering a pizza with a 17 year old 6th former who was staying home alone and his parent wanted him to order take away food. The member of staff we called in 6th form got carried away with the role play and ended up writing the pizza order down and passing it to her colleague sat next to her! Can eleviate a lot of worries and stress about speaking to the public. Get other staff involved after the role play practice - it really helps!

If you need to do a check in or check out with a student these are some helpful resources. These also link well to the 5 point scale used for ASD students or those with difficulty with emotional regulation. Students who struggle with communication will benefit from these resources. Students who cannot express how they feel and cannot participate in discussions or reflections. We have plastic folders with each of these resources in, each form tutor and each teaching assistant has a pack folded in their work pack. Front line staff in well being and attendance have one too. I hope it helps you to gather student voice. Jenny =-)

If you have students who are isolated and do not know how to make friends or talk to their peers this is a nice activity that can take place in a small organised group. The students can use the activities as icebreakers and then discussing what friendship means to them. Students then move onto problem solving and how to help each other. The sesssions can be done in 4-5 20 minute sessions.

AQA Spec A Religion and Themes BUNDLE Revision activities Revision presentation Revision Q style About 30 hours worth of work **REVISION ** Whole course - Summary presentations for both Religion paper and themes paper (with basic info and case studies for Christianity and Buddhism and themes B, D, E and F (can easily be adapted) - could be printed into a revision guide)) Question style - 4 mark question - details of how both papers are laid out and the different styles of questions (influences and similar/contrasting) There are word docs that have templates and examples that could be printed Contrasting views - Presentation and work sheet to fill out on the only possible sections that are contrasting views (3 for each theme) Taking the exam - Presentation for day of the exam for Religion paper Christian and Buddhist (can easily be adapted) hints and tips Presentation for day of the exam for Themes - B, D, E and F (can easily be adapted) hints and tips Resources extra - Keyword connect activities Common quotes that could be used for 5 markers - print back to back Putting everything together has taken about 30 hours but I feel so prepared now for the last 5 weeks.

Here are Religious Education End of Year Assessment Quizzes that are fun and informative. Set over 6 rounds, from questions, to sketches, to dingbats - lots of variety and all answers typed in. Can be done in as little as 40 minutes or to fill the hour. They are for the last lesson of the school year with each year group. You can amend the questions and answers if necessary once you have saved two powepoints and one word document. Made over 6 hours in total, can now be used each year as no repetition. The KS4 ones (year 9 and 10) match the new AQA GCSE for AQA Crime and Punishment, Life Issues and Christianity and Buddhism.

Life skills 19 lessons over various topics Can be covered quickly in 30 mins or up to 60 mins if interacting and allowing discussion Before I bought into a life skills resource for year 9 boys I made these 19 lessons. I have taught them myself and they can take from 30-60 minutes and in some cases they had computers or laptops and researched and made their own presentations One student in the group of 5 had an EHCP where some of these topics were asked to be taught - of course it had to be quite bespoke. The only thing I could do was plan them. They are varied and broad and I hope will be useful for SENDCOs, Form tutors or life skills teachers. If I can save anyone hours of work these are easily adaptable as starting points or ready to go. 1 Finances Money handling (budgets, wants & needs) Meal Preparation, Finding Ingredients, Dinner Conversation. Going to a shop 2 Independence Kitchen Hazards & Safety Safety & Security in the home + fire Sweeping, dusting 3 Intoxicants Intoxicants Alcohol Smoking Cannabis 4 Travel Walking Public Transport (bus, train ,plane) Safety in a car as a driver and passenger 5 Social Media Online safety and understanding the influence of social media Self esteem and profiles 6 Emotional Intelligence Recognising feelings and emotions & Coping Strategies. 7 Communication Communication Strategies – different audiences Making own presentation and presenting next lesson Present and peer marking 8 Problem Solving Finding Solutions - Everyday Problems, Rare Problems. 9 Relationships Different types of relationships sympathy Different types of relationships loyalty 10 Conflict Bullying, Self – Defence according to law.