Here’s to a SATs-free summer! 🌞
As children/staff learn of their Year 6 SATs results this week, the question is: What exactly is the point value of SATs?
Does the emphasis on SATs block good child development?
Does the Year 6 experience support the holistic development of our young people?
🧠 SATs are certainly not telling anyone about the young person’s cognitive skills and processing, or what barriers may be blocking learning.
🧩 Crucially, SATs do not tell us what needs to be done to support a child to develop more broadly.
”A considerable amount of cognitive processes depend on multisensory integration”
What is Motor-Sensory Integration (MSI)?
It is the integration of primitive reflexes, gross and fine motor skills, vestibular function, vision and sound.
Over the summer holidays let’s get our young people:
🤸🏿♀️ Moving.
🏃🏽♀️ Pushing themselves physically.
👩🦽 Working on their posture, balance and control.
👀 Using both eyes together (binocular) not just one sided.
🧏🏾♀️ Improving their listening.
…in readiness for transition to secondary school.
Get hearing and listening checked if necessary:
The Sound Teacher offers screening for the ears and listening - find out more HERE
This goes unnoticed but repeated ear infections, allergies and wax can leave the ear muscles sluggish.
BONUS: The ears can help with sports performance, dance, gymnastics and strength as well as languages, singing and learning a musical instrument. Skills many of our young people want to improve on!
“I recently worked with a 15 year old who couldn’t throw/catch a ball, sing in tune and struggled to cross the road safely; until we worked on his sound processing 💡 ”
If you have tried tutoring, speech and language, physical therapies, counselling and more but are not seeing the progress you would expect, poor motor sensory integration - especially sound processing - could be blocking progress.
Here’s to a SATs-free summer! 🌞
