Schools

EARLY YEARS EDUCATION

Craft-ED fully appreciates that giving children the best start in life is key to their future development.

Our Early Years product, Little League, is designed to provide Early Years practitioners with the resources necessary to provide a range of creative, fun themed child and adult-initiated activities. These activities are tailored to the Early Years Foundation Stage age groups (30-50 months and 40-60+ months) and are fully referenced to the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum centering around the 6 areas of Learning and Development. Planning for the variety of developmental differences across this age group can be demanding. Little League's personalised activities enable each child to gain valuable experience and confidence. Our Activity Guides help teachers to individually plan programmes to cater for each child's needs.

Little League is avialble as a monthly subscription club enabling Early Years Centres to spread the cost of building up a library of classroom resources.  Click here for more details.

 PRIMARY EDUCATION

Providing a programme and a vehicle for personalisation, innovation, imagination, raising of standards and collaboration, our Schools Activity Bundles have been designed to support teachers in delivering fun, creative and interactive lessons. We provide teachers with a new method of presenting lessons that meets the needs of all pupils from Early Years Foundation Stage through to Key Stage Two. Our creative classroom activities motivate pupils to achieve their full potential by encouraging learning through practical application. In essence, all pupils have equal opportunities to create personalised, visually appealing work which is satisfying and provides a real boost for self-esteem and confidence.

Our Activity Guides provide teachers with suggestions for lesson plans fully linked to the National Curriculum, together with the equipment required to deliver the activities.  We also provide links to relevant Government and global initiatives to help teachers easily incorporate these into daily lessons without additional planning including:

•   21^st Century Schools
•   Every Child Matters
•   Every Parent Matters
•   Inclusion
•   Enterprise
•   The United Nations Millennium Development Goals

There is no set duraton for the activities to be carried out, as the versatility of the programmes lends itself to individual, small group or class usage.  The purchase of any of our Schools Activity Bundles facilitates the initial choice and provides a solid basis for ongoing and incremental additions to the programme. 

INCLUSION 

Inclusion covers 'Special Education Needs' and 'Gifted and Talented' children, as schools have a  responsibility to meet the educational needs of all their pupils.  The National Association for Special Educational Needs (nasen) has acknowledged the importance of our products and have endorsed the benefits delivered via our medium. 

"The Craft-ED concept is an enabling tool that opens up new learning opportunities for all children, but especailly for those who have special and additional educational needs."

Lorraine Petersen, CEO, nasen

 Our products provide an unprecedented opportunity for learners with special educational needs to express themselves and communicate without words.  Our activities have proven to be beneficial for those in care, an engaging utility for their families, and empower carers to become more educationally involved.

Participating in crafting activities leads to:

•    greater communication skills

•   a sense of achievement and pride

•   enhanced inclusion

•   heightened self-esteem

•   a greater understanding of disabilities and challenges with more cooperation from the able-bodied

•   more peer-to-peer teamwork

•   a wonderful record of work

•   fundraising

•   increased sharing

•   kinaesthetic learning by using different materials such as balsawood, sand paper and sponge