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PostPosted: 25 Aug 2025Posted in Headlines

Paving the Way back to school workshop 2025

Fourteen families joined the Paving the Way team for some fun that prepared the children to transition back to school. Together we crafted, spoke about beginning a new school year and made items, such as routine visuals, bookmarks and pencil cases which aim to support independence and organisation. 100% of our families said the workshop […]

PostPosted: 11 Aug 2025Posted in HeadlinesThemes: Education for all (Inclusion), Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND), Therapies, Training and Development

Giving Children A Voice and Supporting Parents’ Journeys With Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

The Therapies Team are excited to share the success of our three-part AAC Parent Training recently delivered at Sherwood Park School – Sherwood Hill Campus. AAC is an approach to communication that helps people to communicate or to communicate more clearly and easily (source Augmentative and alternative communication | RCSLT). ‘Augmentative’ means that it helps […]

PostPosted: 7 Aug 2025Posted in HeadlinesThemes: Education for all (Inclusion), Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND), Therapies

Empowering Parents Through Training With Cognus Therapies

As we wrap up for the summer, we wanted to celebrate a fantastic year of parent training sessions delivered by our incredible team. Thanks to the time, passion, and expertise of our therapists, we supported 140 parents across six impactful sessions. The sessions covered everything from emotional regulation, independence skills, motor skill development and communication […]

PostPosted: 1 Aug 2025Posted in HeadlinesTagged Children's Safeguarding, CognusandProud, Reflective Practice, Reflective SupervisionThemes: Education for all (Inclusion), Keeping children safe, Training and Development

Cognus Education Safeguarding Team hold end of year network event for Designated Safeguarding Leads at Cantium House

On Thursday 3rd July 2025, the Education Safeguarding Team held an end of year network event for Designated Safeguarding Leads at Cantium House. I look forward to this event – you actually get to stop and have a lunch break! The Education Safeguarding Team are available to answer any questions, and you get to meet […]

PostPosted: 30 Jul 2025Posted in HeadlinesTagged #PavingtheWay, CognusandProud, Early Intervention, Family WorkshopsThemes: Education for all (Inclusion), Keeping children safe

Paving the Way Summer Workshop 2025

Sixteen families joined Paving the Way, for a summer themed morning of fun! We were joined by the Sutton Family Hub connectors, who joined in with the summer fun, as well as offering our families invaluable support and advice. Together we played games, created crafts and explored all the wonderful things of summer. 98% of […]

PostPosted: 28 Jul 2025Posted in HeadlinesTheme: Education for all (Inclusion)

Free activities in Sutton over the Summer Holidays

PostPosted: 25 Jul 2025Posted in HeadlinesTagged AutisticChoir, CognusandProud, SMT, SupernovaSingersThemes: Education for all (Inclusion), Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND), Sutton Music Trust

Supernova Singers – Summer Concert Week

Sutton Music Trust aims to give all children the opportunity to make, be inspired by and celebrate music. We are proud to offer performance opportunities for all students, to allow them to grow in confidence and skill. During the week of 30th June 2025, Sutton Music Trust hosted our Summer Concert Week, welcoming enthusiastic audiences […]

PostPosted: 22 Jul 2025Posted in HeadlinesTagged #PavingtheWay, CognusandProud, Early Intervention, Family WorkshopsThemes: Education for all (Inclusion), Keeping children safe, Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND)

Transition Warriors Group

Paving the Way (PTW) has supported 10 children from different London Borough of Sutton primary schools. The group focused on supporting the transition from the primary to secondary education setting and providing the students with ideas, additional preparation and support strategies to aid a smooth transition. Guest speakers included: Steve Welding – Education E-Safety adviser […]

Mini Warriors completed!

Six new Mini Warriors have successfully completed the 6-week Paving the Way group at Thomas Wall Children’s Centre! Throughout the programme, the children worked hard to build emotional literacy skills and develop strategies to manage their feelings, all while having lots of fun and making new friends. Parents shared: My child felt understood and enjoyed […]

Inclusion Good News!

Back in 2023, we were contacted in regards to a young person not attending school due to their anxiety. Through multi-agency working alongside VPP, Early Help, school and VPP, we were able to gain support for this young person with STARS and they have now been accessing their school full time for some time. Parents […]