Jen's Acorn is a totally flexible programme of enrichment for your setting depending on the needs you have.
Settings can be using Jens Acorn with the whole school or tailored right down to be used as a 1-2-1 intervention or learning programme for dysregulated/tricky/disengaged learners.
Interest based learning can also support relationship building open conversation for those children who are struggling with life in a less formal way than E.L.S.A. sessions or alongside E.L.S.A.
Using Jens Acorn can also be a way for trying to support reintegration of EBSNA students, whether this is children and young people in school but not engaging or children who are no longer able to attend for whatever reason or as a bit of an outreach to children and young people who are unable to engage in person but still want a connection to their setting.
Get in touch to find out more about how we can support you in getting Jens Acorn up and running in your setting.
Inset Days
I can visit your setting and deliver a talk with questions and answers on your inset days.
I speak from life experience being self-identified with ADHD, diagnosed with dyslexia as a young adult and raising an autistic & ADHD child alongside a back ground as a nurse assistant and working on the ground as an educator with children with additional needs.
What I am able to cover
- Masking and what to look out for and how you can support a child or young person uncover their mask and encourage engagement and emotional regulation
- Emotional Based School Non-Attendance (EBSNA)
- Dysregulated students and ways to support them in class
- Importance of listening to parents
- Importance of listening with ears and eyes to children and young people
- The realities of masking and not listening and where it can lead.
- Other professionals and resources that are super useful.
- An enhancement to the curriculum programme
My fee for a 1 session around 1½ hours (welcome – tea break, tea break – lunchtime….) is £150. My travel costs are not included in the price.
If you would like to chat though how I can support your staff learning please get in touch and we can evolve a session to the needs of your setting.
At Jen's Acorn, the aim is to use what you already have available, not needing to go out a buy loads of kit or ‘stuff’, however we do have a very small amount of funding to be able to support if all other options (friends of your setting/PTA, reaching out to local free pages, asking for donations from your local community, etc) have been exhausted.
I’m ‘just’ a bereaved Mum who wants to see a more holistic system of education, a system that would have enabled Jen to thrive.
Jen and mine's holistic idea is for children and young people to learn outside the classroom in a kinesthetic way or about something they find interesting – if people are interested in something they will learn it. That’s people of any age – my partner’s job is with telegraph poles (to me boring as anything) he loves them! He teaches them as a job. Me what I love – chickens (he just tolerates me and chickens like I tolerate him and telegraph poles)! I will never ever enjoy listening to him go on about them but I know more about them than I ever thought I ever would…!
How Jen's Acorn would work in a classroom environment
Example (Charlie is just a name that popped into my head not a real example)
Charlie would like a school pet, the pet they want is a shark. The easy answer is, absolutely no way in the world is that going to happen!
The Jens Acorn way is; go and find out 😊
What do sharks need?
Geography & sciences; - environment, habitats, feeding, living arrangements of a shark.
How much do they cost and how much space do they need?
Maths; - money, volumes, area, measurements,
Convince the head teachers/leadership….
English; – persuasive writing, fact finding, animal/aquatic creatures’ welfare & rights
Where will the shark live?
Graphic design, design technology, more maths within the design – could be quite complex.
Other learning
Then working out the viability of having a shark at school and drawing their own conclusions
What would viable alternatives be to a shark in school be – more of the above learning.
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