This practical work provides a comprehensive collection of tried and tested old favourites together with modern innovative games designed to enhance and promote children's self-esteem, drawing on the authors' own in-depth knowledge of teaching group games.

An exciting collection of parachute games to develop teambuilding and cooperation skills in the school classroom. It's all very well having a parachute, but do you know what to do with it? If you find that after a couple of games your use of a parachute falls away, this wonderful bumper collection of games is precisely what you need. Parachute games are an exciting way to develop co-operation skills, self-esteem, empathy, communication skills and emotional literacy. In addition, they are incredible fun! Written by two experienced teachers, this book is based on their extensive experience of developing parachute games in a school environment. It will teach you how to get started with a parachute, how to develop active and reflective games, and how to end a session calmly.

This valuable resource for people working with adults with learning disabilities provides over 60 sessions of fun and engaging activities that aim to entertain and stimulate the minds of people with learning disabilities. The sessions are divided into different types of activity including cookery, arts and crafts, drama and dance, and outside events. A comprehensive collection of varied and enjoyable activities, this practical book also contains useful tips to ensure that sessions run smoothly. All the activities are tried and tested by experienced practitioners and include a key advising the level of help required, wheelchair user suitability and any related health and safety issues involved. Ideal for use in social clubs or residential homes, this is an essential resource for professionals and volunteers working with adults with learning disabilities.

Positive Intervention for Pupils who Struggle at School provides the resources and information primary teachers need to ensure a happy and effective school experience for all children, particularly those who are seriously struggling. This tried and tested intervention is designed specifically for those children who have been through all the standard interventions, to no avail, and who are now in danger of being excluded. Explaining the thinking behind the suggested modified curriculum, this innovative book considers the reasons why certain children experience difficulties and looks at how this curriculum addresses their needs and enables them to develop personal, social and emotional skills. The activities are chosen to develop and enhance skills for learning, including listening, speaking, concentrating, a positive disposition and a willingness to take on new challenges. Helen Sonnet demonstrates how success has been achieved through this strategy and provides valuable information to help teachers to set up similar groups in their own schools, including how to: ensure firm foundations for the group select the children who will benefit most establish the structures and routine of a successful group assess the children's progress reintegrate children into their mainstream classes effectively. In line with government initiatives this important and effective intervention strategy can make the world of difference, giving teachers new, proven strategies to enable them to support children who are struggling in mainstream primary schools.

This new addition to the popular "101 Games" ...series is brimming with exciting and purposeful activities to develop children's co-operation skills and their ability to get on together. Written by Jenny Mosley and Helen Sonnet, the activities are compatible with the aims of the government's SEAL resources (distributed in England and Wales). This extensive collection of activities will enable children to explore how to work together effectively through ideas for paired tasks, problem solving, games, outdoor activities, music, and many more. At the same time as engaging in exciting and well-planned activities, children will acquire those skills necessary to work with and relate well to others. "101 Activities to Help Children Get on Together" will help teachers to develop a classroom that is a pleasant place to work, where relationships are valued and in which every child matters and is appreciated.

Positive Intervention for Pupils who Struggle at School provides the resources and information primary teachers need to ensure a happy and effective school experience for all children, particularly those who are seriously struggling. This tried and tested intervention is designed specifically for those children who have been through all the standard interventions, to no avail, and who are now in danger of being excluded. Explaining the thinking behind the suggested modified curriculum, this innovative book considers the reasons why certain children experience difficulties and looks at how this curriculum addresses their needs and enables them to develop personal, social and emotional skills. The activities are chosen to develop and enhance skills for learning, including listening, speaking, concentrating, a positive disposition and a willingness to take on new challenges. Helen Sonnet demonstrates how success has been achieved through this strategy and provides valuable information to help teachers to set up similar groups in their own schools, including how to: ensure firm foundations for the group select the children who will benefit most establish the structures and routine of a successful group assess the children's progress reintegrate children into their mainstream classes effectively. In line with government initiatives this important and effective intervention strategy can make the world of difference, giving teachers new, proven strategies to enable them to support children who are struggling in mainstream primary schools.

This invaluable book for parents and teachers is packed with creative and dynamic games that will help children to develop positive relationships. Part 1: Games that teach looking, listening, speaking, thinking and concentration skills. Part 2: Consolidating the 5 skills area and opportunities for children to apply them in different social contexts. * Collection of inventive games that will enable you to have a positive influence on a child's complex social journey through life. * All activities have been tried, tested and thoroughly enjoyed!

This book has been written to help those children for whom school is a deeply unhappy experience. "Nurturing Success" is the story of the author's desire to help such children in her school by setting up a nurture group. It is a story full of compassion and warmth for the children she works with. However, it is much more than just a story. The benefit of this book is that it will provide you with all you need to establish a nurture group in your school. It includes sections on how to: lay firm foundations for your nurture group, select children who will most benefit from joining your group, establish the structures and routines of a successful nurture group, assess the children's progress, and reintegrate children into their classrooms effectively. In addition, the book includes a full term's worth of session plans for a nurture group, as well as a huge amount of games, songs, recipes and clapping rhymes to use. Nurture groups offer a well-established model for working with children who struggle with school, and this book provides all you need to run one successfully in your school. It could make the world of difference for many children. It includes a foreword by Jim Rose, Director of The Nurture Group Network.

This new book is full of engaging games and activities that will help children to develop the skills and attributes needed for positive behaviour and effective learning. Written by Jenny Mosley and Helen Sonnet, the games support the aims of the DfES' SEAL materials. This comprehensive collection includes games that will help children to explore the five areas highlighted in the SEAL resources: self-awareness, managing feelings, motivation, empathy and social skills. Through exciting activities, children will learn that an effective community is built on co-operation, tolerance and enjoyment. "101 Games for Better Behaviour" will help teachers to contribute to the emotional journey that each individual they teach makes through childhood and in their adult life. It is aimed at Key Stages 1 & 2: (5 to 11 year olds) but with additional use for older special needs children. It helps teachers deliver the Dept for Education's guidance on Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) for children under 11 years old.