Category Archive for: ‘Volunteers’
A blog from Ben Wicks at Family Action, Newham
We at the charity Family Action, together with I CAN’s nationwide Communication Ambassadors project, are giving “troubled families” an opportunity to turn their lives around in Newham. The Government’s Troubled Families programme aims to turn around the lives of 120,000 families in the UK that are classed as “troubled” by the end of this Parliament. A Troubled Family - according …
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Bath Half Marathon and the Family Fun Run!
We would like to say a big thank you to all those who participated in the Bath Half Marathon and the Family Fun Run for I CAN! Taking place on the 3rd March, it was a fantastic day with over 50 half marathon runners and 1,000 Family Fun Runners taking part. We held a pre race reception where all our …
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Why Communication Fascinates Me – Guest blog by Martha Webster, Communication Ambassador
I have been thinking a lot about where my interest with how we communicate started and I think it began with dealing with my own dyslexia whilst at university studying Fine Art Sculpture. I had received extra help in classroom and exams since age 11 but as I became interested in artists I began to become interested in myself and …
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Retromania: Young Enterprise at Dawn House School
Andy Metcalfe, Further Education (FE) Tutor at Dawn House School tells us about the school’s Young Enterprise project. The Young Enterprise project at Dawn House School is a retro-themed business called Retromania which sells record clocks (singles), bags and mugs at the moment. All these products have retro-based designs on them. Retromania has been in business since September 2012. We’ve …
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Engage in Education: helping young people with behaviour difficulties engage with secondary school
Unbelievably we are now coming to the end of our pilot phase of the Engage in Education programme, and what a busy and exciting 16 months we have had! The teams have worked hard through this hectic and snowy time of year creating the shape of Engage in Education for the future so that we have a choice of packages …
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Marshmallow Sky: A Play by Alan Dawson, Dawn House School
‘Marshmallow Sky’ is the second play about autism written by Alan Dawson. Alan works in the FE department at I CAN’s Dawn House School. The first play, ‘The Red Wot Was Fez’ was performed in a short tour of Mansfield, Worksop and Sheffield last year. The final performance was at The Blue Shed Theatre, Sheffield in November and all proceeds …
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Guest blog by Paula Poole, Communication Ambassador
My name is Paula Poole, a 31 year old mum of two. I first started to volunteer at my children’s school, when my daughter was in Year 1. I listened to readers to start with. Over the months I progressed into taking small groups for guided reading, which is when a group reads a book together and then talks about …
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Why are schools reporting more children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN)?
Just before Christmas, the Department for Education (DfE) launched the results of a major 3 year national research programme: the Better Communication Research Programme (BCRP), the most extensive research programme ever for SLCN with the ambitious aims of bringing together research, policy and practice. One of the headlines was that the number of children and young people at primary and …
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Still chance to enter Bath Half Family Fun Run for I CAN
With the New Year in full bloom, and lots of talk of resolutions and a healthier you in 2013, there is still time to secure your place in the Bath Half Family Fun Run, which will take place just after the start of the half marathon on Sunday 3 March. The Fun Run has grown year on year with over …
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Christmas Message from Virginia Beardshaw, I CAN CEO
2012 has been busy for all charities and particularly those working with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs. The policy landscape continues to change – with the introduction of a revised Early Years Foundation Stage which has communication and language at its heart; proposals for a new Primary Curriculum and the publication of the draft SEN …
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