Are you overwhelmed by the amount of paperwork that SEN generates in your school? Would you like to spend more time actually improving the quality of teaching & learning for pupils with SEN or disabilities? If so this is an essential book for you. Government are asking schools to identify fewer children with SEN & place less reliance on Individual Education Plans
- but at the same time ensure that children get the help they need. This & the new Ofsted framework challenge schools to find new ways of enabling all children to make progress
- those with true SEN & those who may just be lower-achieving or needing help with behaviour problems. Fully revised & updated the new edition of this best-selling practical text contains helpful & achievable strategies to meet these policy challenges. It will provide support for school leaders SENCOs & anyone undertaking the national SENCO award. Through school case studies Beating Bureaucracy in Special Educational Needs shows how to increase pupil progress by using existing systems for class & subject teacher target-setting tracking & planning. It lists the intervention programmes that really work & describes successful partnership with parents. A toolkit of ready-to-use pro-formas also available online
Includes:: a model policy to give to Ofsted curriculum planning formats & provision maps strategy sheets for all the main types of SEN proformas to help you plan monitor & evaluate your provision. The book shows how to put responsibility for supporting children with most types of additional need firmly back where it belongs
- with class & subject teachers. It will help you
- in the words of one SENCO
- get your life back.





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Mild depressions are so insidious that sufferers often dont seek help. However persistent mild depression which afflict up to 35 million Americans can be readily & permanently cured. This book shows how chronic mild depression can be relieved by learning strategies that help us to recognize negative & distorted thinking patterns that lead to a downward spiral of pessimism. It reveals that a combination of medication & therapy has been shown to be the most effective treatment for mild depression with an impressive 85 per cent of patients experiencing full relief. It discusses when you should seek help from a therapist & what kinds of therapy work best. It outlines the antidepressants that are helpful for both mild & severe depressions detailing each drugs strength & weakness & examines alternative therapies including stress management (meditation relaxation massage biofeedback) physical exercise acupuncture supplements & other mind/body therapies. Finally the book provides in-depth discussions of mild depression in children adolescents college students & elderly parents as well as those with chronic stress. Throughout the authors use boxed text & charts to make the key ideas immediately accessible & easy to use. Beating the Blues" is an inspiring & empowering book filled with the information & encouragement you need to turn your life around & begin to feel renewed pleasure & joy." ...

The best-selling band in history with sales of over a billion The Beatles have had more number-one albums & sold more singles in the UK than any other act & achieved more sales in the USA than any other artist. They became one of the most critically acclaimed acts in popular music. Formed in Liverpool in 1960 The Beatles had their roots in skiffle & 1950s rock 'n' roll but as their career progressed they dabbled in many musical forms including pop ballads & psychedelic rock. This book takes a look at Britain's most famous pop group from their early days in the 1960s to the most recent activities of the surviving members with the aid of 350 photographs. ...

This volume contains over 120 songs written & sung by The Beatles specially arranged from the actual recordings in the original keys. Each song

Includes:: chord symbols guitar chord boxes & complete lyrics. The book also

Includes:: a playing guide & full discography.



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Herve Bourhis creator of The Little Book of Rock turns his unique graphic talents to the legend of The Beatles told from the very beginning. Bourhis visual imagination illuminates the individual lives of each band member from their pre-Beatles youth to what would become a rock band of phenomenal worldwide fame. All of the epic details of their story are vividly evoked: the triumphs the quarrels the supreme musical creativity & of course the inevitable break-up. The story then goes on to follow the personal destinies of John Paul George & Ringo four Liverpool lads who were by turns ambitious clever facetious arrogant down-to-earth & supremely talented. Theirs was the ultimate rock band story & Herve Bourhis has done it
- & them
- full justice in this superb & exuberant graphic biography.

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We love them do! It was 50 years ago today that the Fab Four had their first chart-topping hit with Please Please Me." Beatlemania had begun--and this treasure-packed set celebrates the occasion with 30 fantastic pieces of memorabilia. In addition to five previously unseen photos & a half-hour DVD of thrilling archival footage the facsimiles include an extremely rare handbill for a show at the legendary Cavern; a sought-after poster of the bands appearance at the Tower Ballroom; a ticket to the world premiere of " Help!"; & a " Magical Mystery Tour" party invite. No true fan will want to be without this!" ...

The Sixties put an end to drab post-war austerity in a psychedelic explosion of colour fashion music new attitudes & revolution (sexual & otherwise). In this follow-up to his best-selling Soor Plooms & Sair Knees: Growing up in Scotland after the War Bob Dewar celebrates the grooviest decade ever in over a hundred pen & ink drawings which capture the spirit of the time when everyone (well almost everyone) turned on tuned in & dropped out
- or at least just hung loose. From Flower Power The Beatles Mary Quant & G Plan furniture to marijuana mini skirts flush panel doors Pans People & the hostess trolley this is a warm & humorous homage that will appeal to all those cats & chicks who lived through the era as well as all those who dig the style verve & panache of the Swinging Sixties.
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Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) was a man of dazzling charm & style & his talents were many. In his twenties he recorded London & New York society in needle-sharp words & drawings & then at Conde Nasts insistence in photographs. The resulting work earned him a place among the great chroniclers of fashion. In this classic book now in a sumptuous paperback edition after many years out of print Josephine Ross selects & introduces articles drawings & photographs by Beaton dating from the 1920s to the 1970s. It

Includes:: Beatons essays & vignettes on high society & its denizens as well as such stars of the arts as Greta Garbo Ralph Richardson Pablo Picasso & David Hockney. It also reproduces Beatons war photographs drawings & writings from bombed London to China & the North Africa Desert. Beaton loved Vogue" & his contributions testify to the wit imagination & professionalism that the man & the magazine always had in common."

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This is the story of a donkey named Beatrice & a monkey named Virgil. It is also the story of an extraordinary journey undertaken by a man named Henry. It begins with a mysterious parcel & it ends in a place that will make you think again about one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. Once you have finished reading it it is impossible to forget. ...

Beatrix Potter"s books are adored by millions but they were just one aspect of an extraordinary life. This captivating biography brings us the passionate unconventional woman behind the beloved stories: a gifted artist & shrewd businesswoman; a pioneering scientific researcher; a powerful landowner who conserved acres of Lakeland countryside; a daughter who defied her parents with her first tragically short engagement & who finally was given a second chance of love & happiness." ...