A practical, ready-to-use SEND pupil profile and learning toolkit designed to help students recognise and communicate what genuinely helps them learn.

Perfect for pupil voice, SEND support, tutor time, transition, pastoral work and 1:1 sessions, the resource gives students an accessible way to explore their strengths, challenges and individual learning preferences.

Rather than simply focusing on what a pupil finds difficult, the activities help identify practical strategies that teachers and support staff can use in the classroom.

What’s included?

1. What Helps Me Learn? – Student Profile
Students explore:

• Their strengths and challenges
• What helps them concentrate
• What adults might notice when things feel too much
• Strategies that help them reset
• What they would like their teachers to know
• How teachers can support them
• Something they would like to work on
• The most important thing adults should know about how they learn

2. My Learning Toolkit
A simple tick-box activity covering practical strategies for:

• Understanding instructions
• Concentrating
• Managing overwhelm
• Getting started
• Staying on task
• Organisation
• Processing information
• Asking for help

Students then identify the three strategies that help them most, creating a clear and manageable starting point for classroom support.

3. Teacher / TA Guide
Includes:
Guidance on introducing the activities
Suggested ways to use the completed profile
Conversation starters
Ideas for identifying and prioritising useful strategies
Guidance for reviewing the profile over time
Ideal for:

SEND • SEN • ADHD • Autism • Dyslexia • SEMH • Pupil Voice • SENCOs • Teaching Assistants • Pastoral Support • Tutor Time • Transition • 1:1 Support • Secondary Schools

The activities can be completed independently by a student or worked through with a teacher, TA, SENCO, key worker or other trusted adult.

Particularly useful when getting to know a new pupil, supporting transition, beginning a new term or class, preparing for review meetings, or opening up conversations about individual learning needs.

A straightforward, low-prep and pupil-centred resource that helps shift the conversation from “What does this student struggle with?” to “What actually helps this student learn?”