positive eye products - free downloads, packs and guides to purchase.
Support for me pack reduced to £60 while stocks last. new pack out in
september including strengths cards by Gail bailey.
Positive Eye has developed a range of products that can help you complete your day-to-day work with ease. Our products include policies, tool kits and provision plans to cut down time and therefore save money from writing them yourselves. They will improve service provision and efficiency and start from only £20.
Free downloads to support class teachers:
A range of lesson plans which offer inclusive teaching strategies and tips to meet the needs of a child with a visual impairment in your class. Literacy
Literacy - lesson plan 1 literacy lesson plan 2
Numeracy
numeracy lesson plan 1numeracy lesson plan 2
Science
Science lesson plan 1 Science lesson plan 2
Geography
Geography lesson plan 1 geography lesson plan 2
History
History lesson plan 1 History lesson plan 2
PE
PE lesson plan 1 PE lesson plan 2
art
Art lesson plan 1 Art lesson plan 2
Free download - equipment and resources lists
A comprehensive list of the equipment and resources to buy to meet the needs of a chld with a visual impairment in the mainstream setting.
Equipment list Subject resource lists
a useful Proforma pack - only £10
for teachers of visual impairments this pack includes the following and is sold on CD - enabling access record, weekly planning meeting record, home visit record, individual access record, example of a report framework, example of INSET slides for delivery of training on needs of child to a school, classroom observation record.
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Quality first teaching - creating vision friendly classrooms - £10 per pack
Pack 1: For class teachers quality first teaching - aself assessment - creating vision friendly classroom environments for all children: Cost £10 + p&PThe pack offers: tips and strategies for vision friendly classrooms, checklist for teacher to assess if their classroom environment and teaching strategies are inclusive and vision friendly for all children. check list for teacher to reflect on teaching approaches used if they have a child with a visual impairment in their class. A set of subject strategy tips for maths, literacy, geography, science, art and pe.
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Pack 2: a simple self assessment for teachers and teaching assistants of children with visual impairments - supporting quality first teaching and vision friendly inclusive practices:( If you are teacher of VI you wouldn't need to also purchase pack. )
the pack offers: tips and strategies for vision friendly classrooms, checklist to offer to the class teacher to assess if their classroom environment and teaching strategies are inclusive and vision friendly for all children. check list for teacher to reflect on teaching approaches used if they have a child with a visual impairment in their class. checklist for the teacher of visual impairments/teaching assistant to reflect and assess if they are promoting inclusive practices and independent access A set of subject strategy tips for maths, literacy, geography, science, art and pe. Cost £10 + p&P
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Customer feedback for sensory support services - £50 + P&P
A simple and easy to use customer feedback system to support Sensory Support Serv ices in gathering information on the delivery of services to children, parents and carers, schools and early years settings and partnership services. It has questionnaires for each of the above areas with simple and easy to complere spreadsheets to collate data gathered from each stakeholder group.
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Supporting appraisial for teaching assistants of v.i. - £95
This guide has been written for teaching assistants and learning support assistants who work with children with visual impairments. It offers support to the professional at appraisal time. The guide aims to help them recognise their skills and from this to set meaningful and appropriate objectives. It also aims to help them to identify observation situations which exemplify the support and input that they provide and which contributes towards the child’s progress and inclusion.
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example of objective
Environmental Access Toolkit for Mainstream Schools – £20
Calling all mainstream schools looking for a ready-made Environmental Access toolkit, this is the product for you! This will toolkit will enable an audit of the schools environment, ensuring an accessible environment for children and young people with a visual impairment. This is an easy to use toolkit, divided into four environment areas each with an access audit, access action plan and tips for enabling appropriate access.
see example of a page from the environmental audit toolkit. For more information or to purchase the toolkit downlooad the order form
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Policies to support day to day running of service for vi – £125
This is the answer to all your policy dilemmas! For only £125 you can buy a set of 14 policies to support the day-to-day running of a peripatetic support service for children with visual impairments. These policies are practical and user friendly, providing general aim and detailing comprehensive procedure. The policies include: • Referral
• Early years
• Assessment and monitoring of vision
• Access to the curriculum For more information or to buy download the order form see example of a policy more information
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Meeting the Government Agendas Toolkit – £23.50
This toolkit maps the way a service fulfils its contribution to the five outcomes of the “Every Child Matters” agenda. It relates the activities of the service to relevant key judgments. It also helps you to meet the priorities of the “Aiming High for Disabled Children”.
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An Individual Provision Plan – Only £65
This provision plan will ensure access to the school environment for pupils with a visual impairment. It’s mapped to the “Quality Standards in Educational Support Services” and is divided into five main sections: • General Provision
• Curriculum access
• Specialist Equipment
• Physical Environment
• Daily Living Skills Each section maps out the needs of the individual child from both school and service perspectives. You can amend the provision points to reflect the needs of the child. Each section has a “Note for Action” for monitoring purposes and evaluation forms are also included. see example of a page from the Individual Provision Plan For more information or to buy download the order form more information
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Making and Measuring the Difference for a Child with a VI - £125
This document aims to support a Service in understanding and measuring the difference that input from a Service has on the child’s opportunity to progress. It details how a service makes and measures a difference for the child within the following areas:
• Assessment and identification of need
• Training and advice for staff; Direct and indirect support; Unique curriculum.
For each area there is a “making a difference profile sheet” for each child on the caseload.Data gathering sheets are provided to enable a wider view of support impact to be collated by QTVI and HOS
A “Summary of Support Impact” provides a framework for QTVI’s to provide an overview of support impact for the children on their caseload. For more information or to buy download the order form
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early years mapping document - £125
This toolkit maps the Developmental Journal for Babies and Young Children and the Oregon to the Early Years Foundation Stage. For more information or to buy download the order form
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Support for me - was £85 now £60 whilst stocks last - new pack out
in september including the strengths cards written by Gail Bailey.
this resource is suitable for use with children with visual impairment and also for use with children with other special learning needs. it is an activity for use by teachers and teaching assistants and is aimed at involving the child in planning and review of their support. It generates discussion with the child asking what the child thinks about their support? What support would they find helpful in lessons? what lessons they would like help in and what they can do independently. It also includes a social and emotional pack, to encourage children to talk about the social aspects of their school life, includes cards to help them to talk about what makes a good day in school and what changes they would like to happen. read more
supporting performance management - teachers of VI - £125
This is aimed at supporting teachers of vi with setting performance management objectives and planning classroom observations that reflect their professional role. Full of worked examples and suggestions for classroom observations, the guide is very closely linked to all the key standards, eg. Professional core standards, National SEN Specialist Standards,
see example of a worked example of an objective. see flyer for
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new!! Independent access skills pathway price - £95
this sets out the pathway for the child in developing the access skills to enable them to independently access the curriculum and the environment. it is has a long term plan to direct the path of access skills to develop. it also has short term planning programmes to ensure each school year the child's access skills continue to be developed in a consistent way towards the long term goal. Access skill programmes are provided as examples of how skill levels can be built in to the delivery of the programme, and they are complete with skill steps to help the teacher or teaching assistant clearly identify the progress the child is making throughout the programme. The guide is practical and comes complete with proformas for programme planning, ongoing monitoring of the child's progress and review of targets set.
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