SPECIAL NEEDS 2006-2007 TV PROGRAMMES AND ONLINE bbc.co.uk/schoolsguide SPECIAL NEEDS 2006-2007 Wednesdays,Thursdays and Fridays 0200-0600 remember to set the video the night before! Television programmes on BBC Learning Zone and BBC TWO see bbc.co.uk/schoolsguide for more details

PROGRAMME AGE 11-16 AGE 13-16+ AGE 16+ TRANSMISSION FEBRUARY ONLINE VIDEO/DVD INFORMATION TIMES SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL Go for It! Choices svt Go for It! Lifeskills svt Fri 16 Feb Boost Secondary Video Tape NEEDS £6.40 exc.VAT svt AGE 9-11 These documentary-style This uses the same documentary AUTUMN 2006 0400-0600 >84546 Curriculum Bites RE programmes aim to help teenagers approach as Go for it! Choices and Curriculum Bites RE 11-14: Secondary DVD 11-14: Challenging Faith DEAF CHILDREN with severe learning difficulties or is ideal for use with 16-year-olds SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER Challenging Faith £8.99 exc.VAT dvd 14-16: Exploring Beliefs Hands Up! BSL disabilities to cope with everyday and above with severe learning Curriculum Bites RE 14-16: Popular children’s classics serialised Two programmes in flexible life, to develop skills and to difficulties or disabilities. Each Mondays 11 Sep-9 Oct, BBC Schools’ Broadcast Exploring Beliefs in BSL translations, using a bilingual strands with contributions from increase their independence.They programme follows older teenagers 6 Nov-11 Dec Recordings approach and differentiated the UK’s major religions as well feature strong role-models, approaching school leaving age PO Box 7,Wetherby LS23 7EP 1315-1330 SUMMER 2007 activities to support deaf children’s as non-believers. Each has a demonstrate good practice and and explores their options.The Tel 08701 272 272* Something Special developing literary skills. ten-minute section devoted to provide realistic, practical help programmes are designed to build Fax 08701 273 273 APRIL-JUNE conveying difficult or abstract towards independence. confidence in young adults with A reading scheme aimed at Email [email protected] NOVEMBER Hands Up! Fantastic Mr Fox concepts in a form accessible 5 x 15 mins 9 Nov learning difficulties or disabilities improving literacy skills in students Mondays 23 Apr-21 May to a very wide audience. 1 Things I like by providing practical help and entering secondary school with a 200101 Go for it! Choices 3 x 15 mins 23 Apr Thu 2 Nov 1315-1330 2 x 60 mins 16 Feb 2 Going to the shop demonstrating how situations can reading ability below level 4. 200102 Go for it! Lifeskills 3 Being clean be handled successfully. 0400-0600 >74734 Something Special Students navigate through the Hands Up! The Iron Man Documentary Scrapbook 4 Going out for a meal 5 x 20 mins 16 Nov Go for It! Relationships levelled adventure texts, completing 202202 Go for it! 4 x 15 mins 21 May 5 Going away 1 At school Mondays 4-18 Jun activities along the way and earning Relationships Simple clips selected to stimulate 2 At college Thu 9 Nov credit which they can use to Not being broadcast in 2006- talk and observation. 1300-1330 AGE 4-7 3 At work customise their own Boost car. 2007, but also available: 1 x 20 mins, 9, 16 Nov 0400-0600 >10625 Something Special 4 Living with family 1 x 25 mins, Go for It! Choices Boost has been designed to support 202203 Hands Up! LANGUAGE 5 Living with friends 1 x 20 mins Documentary Scrapbook 1-2 APRIL as broad an audience as possible Reception (3-6) DEVELOPMENT 1 Growth and can be used at home as well Something Special 202204 Hands Up! 2 Landscape Thu 16 Nov Mon 23 Apr as in the classroom. Storytime (4-5) Designed for young children, 3 Farming BBC PRIMARY GUIDE bbc.co.uk/schools/boost 0400-0600 >54158 1115-1200 >7490897 202205 Hands Up! Words including those with learning For a range of mainstream resources of potential interest to SENCOs. Go for It! Lifeskills Hands Up! Fantastic Mr Fox 1-3 and Pictures (5-7) difficulties, these programmes AGE 12-16+ CBeebies Phone to request your free copy: 08700 100 222 Documentary Scrapbook 3 help children communicate and 202206 Hands Up! MAY develop language in a fun and SEVERE LEARNING SPRING 2007 KS2a (7-9) exciting way. Presenter Justin DIFFICULTIES Mon 21 May 202207 Hands Up! Fletcher (of Tweenies and Tikkabilla) Go for It! Relationships svt JANUARY-MARCH KS2b (9-11) leads children in songs and rhymes 1100-1130 >2599 This unit features presenters, 202208 Hands Up! around familiar themes.The series Hands Up! The Iron Man 1-4 contributors and actors who have Mondays 8 Jan-5 Feb, Miscellany (3-11) invites all children – and their learning difficulties of their own. 26 Feb-26 Mar >VIDEOPlus+ code teachers, parents and carers – 202211 Inclusion: Dyspraxia It is organised under various key VIDEOPlus+® is a registered trademark of Gemstar to learn Makaton signing and join 1315-1330 headings: me and my body; me Development Corporation © Gemstar 2006 202209 Signed Landmarks: in the fun. Something Special Caribbean (9-12) and other people; my behaviour Online content created for children 30 x 15 mins 11 Sep-9 Oct in public and private places; touch with a range of needs includes 202210 Signed Landmarks/ 6 Nov-11 Dec in different relationships; how to Further details Tweenies and Teletubbies games for Moving to English (9-12) 8 Jan-5 Feb say no to relationships I don’t want. blind and visually impaired children; 26 Feb-26 Mar 1 x 120 mins 2 Nov Startastic Captain Jake, a game for 23 Apr-18 Jun 1 Myself children with motor difficulties; and 2 My family a signed Tikkabilla song for deaf “Learning to sign is quite hard 3 My friends children.The Something Special site work. ...Don’t worry, said our 4 Special relationships features games, stories and print- lovely speech therapist.Watch 5 Talking to others outs incorporating Makaton signs Something Special on television 6 Different people and symbols. with her, and you’ll both pick it 7 New friends bbc.co.uk/cbeebies Broadcast details correct at time up in no time.” of going to print. Please check: “a simply brilliant programme for bbc.co.uk/schoolsguide children with special needs which or listings magazines for dates is presented by the amazingly and times. funny, kind, Makaton-friendly Justin Fletcher. For this programme All BBC Secondary television alone, I would happily quadruple programmes are subtitled: see what I pay for our licence fee.” Ceefax page 888

India Knight, Sunday Times May 14 2006