Neurodiversity week

 - Neurodiversity week (18-22 March 2024) - 



As a passionate advocate for acknowledging and supporting neurodiversity in educational and professional settings, I took on leading the neurodiversity programme for my school. During Neurodiversity week, in my French lessons, I asked the children from Year 4 to Year 8 to create wordclouds with WordArt and the results were amazing. Here is a post from my school X account. 

Celebrating neurodiversity is about recognising and valuing the diverse ways in which people's brains work. It promotes a more inclusive, understanding, and supportive environment for all individuals.

To raise awareness of neurodiversity I created a Breakout game with the amazing template by Sandbox Educacion


I integrated the Private Joke concept into our form competition. Private Joke is a game where you have to make up a word for a definition. Collaborating with our two Neurodiversity Prefects, we carefully chose 5 cards, one for each day of the week, to shape the competition for students from Year 3 to Year 8. Embedding a Google Form in a Genially  for submitting their invented words, every form group had the opportunity to deliberate on the suggested definitions and collectively select a word to submit. The Neurodiversity competition was a success, with most of the form groups participating and collectively generating a word for each definition. Following this, the Learning Enhancement department rated each word on a scale of 1 to 5, considering innovation, creativity, and originality.


I also organised a mandala competition and created a virtual art gallery with the beautiful creations from our pupils. I hope you like it! Please leave a comment.

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