Handwriting Group

This group can address difficulties including holding a pencil in a functional grasp, letter formation, placing letters along the line, size of writing, mixing capital and lower case letters and organising writing on a page.

Fine Motor Group

The fine motor group can help children develop the ability to use their hands for any functional task they are finding difficult. This could include cutting, threading, tool use or fastenings. This can stem from difficulties with muscle tone affecting posture, fine motor strength and coordination of the hands and fingers.

Gross Motor Group

The gross motor group can help children develop the ability to use big movements of their body for functional tasks. This group can help children develop their body strength, balance, throwing and catching skills or the ability to hop, skip and jump. This can help children to access tasks in P.E. or leisure activities.

Sensory Circuits Group

This is a structured group of activities that provide a safe, channelled environment to support children to concentrate ready for organised learning in school. It relies on theories of sensory processing and sensory integration. It has three elements. The first starting with alerting exercises, then organising and then calming. These activities are designed in a particular order to produce a regulated, positive response from the child. If done incorrectly and in the wrong order, this could cause a disruptive situation due to the child being stimulated in the wrong way.

Organisation Group

The organisation group is a group designed to improve the ability of children to organise and plan their thought processes, diary, homework schedules and everyday tasks such as packing a bag and money management.

Each group will be completed by an experienced Occupational Therapist, and will include following:

1. Formal assessments during the first week and final week

2. Goals set outlining the group aims based on each student’s needs

3. Regular informal assessments to monitor and adapt group intervention

4. Final individual reports which provide a summary of improvements made, progress with goals set and further recommendations