Understanding and addressing your child’s sensory needs can be challenging, especially when they can’t articulate their feelings. Its hard as … Read More
New beginnings and coping with everyday change
Beginnings and endings are scattered throughout our lives but how do we navigate them and how can we support the … Read More
Teachers Make The Difference
With a couple of weeks left until our children return to school, I couldn’t help but reflect on the last … Read More
The School Report
It’s the end of yet another school year. Love them or hate them, if it hasn’t already appeared in the school … Read More
School Transitions
If there’s one thing that’s constant, it’s change. After a year and a half of massive changes brought about by … Read More
Outdoor Play for Connection
Parents are obsessed with getting their children outside and, as it turns out, with good reason. As a child, I … Read More
The Good Enough Parent – Part 2
At Beacon, we talk a lot about connection. We know that when children are struggling they often need to feel … Read More
Resources for schools – PSHE, emotional wellbeing, support for SEND pupils
Something I hear a lot of from my non-teacher friends is how happy they are that ‘things are starting to … Read More
Supporting vulnerable pupils during COVID-19
Before this strange and complicated world that we have found ourselves in we had developed a group Theraplay® model that … Read More
COVID-19: Where are the vulnerable pupils?
This morning I read an article on the BBC. The headline read, “Tiny Fraction of ‘at risk’ children attending schools” … Read More