For busy teachers, TAs and SENCOs
A meltdown before maths, a child who won’t join in, and 29 others to teach?
You care about every child in the room. But there’s no time to plan, the support plan needs updating, and the child who’s struggling needs help now, not next term.
Here’s help that fits in a 10-minute slot.
Does this sound like your classroom?
There’s a 10-minute activity for each of these in the SEN Kids Toolkit, with every step written out for you.
Meet the SEN Kids Toolkit
Help that fits in a 10-minute slot
20 ten-minute activities for SEN and neurodivergent children, to do together at school or at home. No planning, no training, and you don’t need to do the whole book. Pick the one that fits today.
- Left page, for you: what to do, step by step, with the research sources at the bottom.
- Right page, for the child: a tick-box worksheet. Nothing to write and no personal details.
- Start here: find the child’s hardest moment and the activity to try first.
- Things to remember about me: a one-page profile to pass on to new teachers, TAs and clubs.
- Home and school pages and a tracker, so everyone uses the same words and what helps can go in the support plan.
A5 and spiral-bound, so it lies flat on the table. Photocopy a worksheet and use it again and again. For ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyscalculia, anxiety, and speech and language, with or without a diagnosis.
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How teachers and TAs use it
One activity, ten minutes
Do it together at a calm time, tick how it went, and keep what helps.
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In a 10-minute slot
A soft start, after break, or the end of the day. Open the page, follow the steps, and tick how it went.
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Any adult can pick it up
Hand it to a TA, a cover teacher or a lunchtime supervisor. Every step is written out, with no jargon.
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Home and school together
Send the worksheet home so everyone uses the same words, and add what helps to the child’s support plan.
Seven things an SEN child might want you to know
- My brain works in its own way. That’s not naughty.
- Give me time to think and answer.
- Show me with pictures as well as words.
- Tell me what’s happening and what will change.
- When I’m overwhelmed, I need calm, not more words.
- Notice what I do well, and tell me.
- Have fun with me.
From the first pages of the SEN Kids Toolkit. Every activity is built on them.
My story
Why I made this toolkit
I’m Collette, a qualified teacher and an SEN mum, and I have dyslexia and ADHD myself. At school in the 1980s I was called lazy. As a teacher, I saw children struggling just like I did, and brilliant TAs doing their best with no time to plan.
So I took the best ideas from research and turned them into 20 activities you can pick up and use in 10 minutes. Calm, simple and kind, for the child and for you.
“It made her less anxious, visually seeing how much (little) she had to do. Great tip, will definitely be keeping it up.”
A teacher, on the Now and Next activity
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You’re not on your own. Swap ideas, ask questions and share what works with TAs and teachers who get it.
For the parents you work with
The SEN Mums Journal
For the mum at the gate who’s struggling. Help for nine hard moments, from school refusal to bedtime battles, plus what to say to school. A lovely one to recommend at parents’ evening.
SENCO wanting the full picture for one need? See the Mooki SENCO Cards →