Crossbow has exhibited at hundreds of conferences over the last 20 years, and one thing we have found over and over again is that delegates are not given enough time to have a good look at resources, and, by the same token, exhibitors who have taken the time and trouble to attend the conference end up hardly seeing anything of the delegates. We've invited some of the people we consider to be the best resources providers in the UK for this education sector (alongside ourselves, of course), so we want to give you the opportunity to make the most of them. To do this, and to also give you plenty of time for catching up with friends and colleagues, we will serve lunch in two sittings. While the first half have lunch, the second half will have dedicated exhibition viewing time; and vice versa for the second sitting. The venue are used to dealing with large numbers, and have assured us they do not have long queues at the serveries.
Our exhibitors are by invitation only. Our aim is to have a marketplace of suppliers and services selected for their known quality and relevance to this conference, with enough variety to make the marketplace an interesting area to visit, without so many stands that there is not enough time to get round them all. We have divided the stands into three categories: BOOKS AND RESOURCES, ICT, and SERVICES.
BOOKS AND RESOURCES: Crossbow Education, SEN Books, Phonic Books Ltd, Smart Kids, Left'n'Write, TTS, Flexitable
ICT: Activise, Enabling Technology, Nessy, Sprint Plus, Wordshark.
SERVICES: Dyslexia Action, Rushall's Inclusion Advisory Team
We will have a full range of our dyslexia-friendly teaching resources and our award-winning visual stress collection on display, with stock for you to purchase and take away with you. We can invoice your school, or take card payments. There will be plenty of hands-on resources, as well as activity books, for phonics, writing, language, punctuation and grammar, handwriting, and comprehension, as well as our reading rulers, overlays, tinted exercise books, and Visual Stress Assessment Pack.
Curriculum stage
Keystage 1 keystage 2 keystage 3 keystage 4 Further Education Special Needs
Address:
Crossbow Education Ltd
Tollgate Court
Tollgate Drive
Stafford
ST16 3HS
United Kingdom
Telephone: 08452697272
Fax: 08452697373
Website: http://www.crossboweducation.com
Email: bob@crossboweducation.com
This will be run by Beccie Hawes and Becky Hawkins of Rushall's Inclusion Advisory Service, both of whom are presenting workshops at the conference. It will consist of one-to-one appointments arranged at the Rushall's Team stand during the exhibitions times, and give delegates the opportunity to benefit from their specialist input on specific problems with specific children.
Delegates can get on the spot advice about a number of issues including:
- What to do about 'that' pupil.
- How to tweak your quality first teaching.
- Recommendations of resources/assessment materials/interventions to support best practice.
- Whole school policy and practice development/problem solving.
- How to show small step progress.
Everyone who 'drops in' will receive a plan, do, review document to support their reflection and action back at school.
Rushall's Inclusion Advisory Service, Rushall Primary School, Pelsall Lane, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1NG
Tel: 01922 682300 Email: postbox@rushall.walsall.sch.uk
SEN Books are the UK's leading supplier of reference and workbooks for teaching children with SpLD. On the stand today will be new books from Jessica Kingsley; Sage Publishers; Egon Publishers; NASEN; and more, as well as
new 2014 Curriculum materials for English and Phonics. SEN Books are also the publishers of Neil Mackay's books, which will be on sale at this stand.
Address:
Outwood
Wakefield
618 Leeds Road
WF1 2LT
United Kingdom
Telephone: 01924 871 697
Fax: 01924 871 697
Website: http://www.senbooks.co.uk
Email: sales@senbooks.co.uk
Smart Kids goal is to provide teachers with fun, easy-to-use products that motivate, educate and reward, for Literacy, Maths and PSHE. Pick up a catalogue and check out our great new resources that help teachers deliver the National Curriculum.
Curriculum stage
foundation Keystage1 keystage2 specialneeds
Smart Kids UK Ltd
5 Station Road
Hungerford
Berkshire
RG17 0DY
United Kingdom
Telephone: 01488 644 644
Fax: 01488 644 645
Website: http://www.smartkids.co.uk
Email: ceri@smartkids.co.uk
TTS has over 30 years' experience of supplying high quality education resources to schools and early year's settings across the UK. We spend our lives talking to teachers, advisors, parents, early year's professionals and many others whose number one priority is the same as our own - children. The result is exceptional resources that meet your needs.
Address:
Telephone: +44 (0)1623 688536
Fax: 0800137525
Website: http://www.tts-group.co.uk
Phonic Books Ltd specialises in publishing decodable reading books for beginner and catch-up pupils. This year we launched our brand new 'Rescue!' series which combines step-by-step phonic progression and imaginative, beautifully illustrated stories that will engage and enthuse pupils in KS2/3. Complemented by comprehensive workbook.
Curriculum stages
Key Stages 1, 2, 3 and Special Needs
Address:
Westhill House
74 Bristol Street
Malmesbury
Wiltshire
SN16 0AX
United Kingdom
Telephone: 07711 963 355
Fax: 01666 823 411
Website: http://www.phonicbooks.co.uk
Email: enquiries@phonicbooks.co.uk
Left 'n' Write
5 Charles Write
Worcester
WR1 2AQ
United Kingdom
Telephone: 01905 25798
Fax: 01905 25798
Website: http://www.leftshoponline.co.uk
Email: info@leftshoponline.co.uk
ActiVise Q&A Software
ActiVise Sequencing Software
Would your learners benefit from repetitve interactive learning?
ActiVise Q&A Software and ActiVise Sequencing Software aid learning and enhance memory to stimulate recall of subject knowledge. Create or download Q&As or sequences to appear in the educational computer game frameworks. Receive 10 free Maths modules with each software purchase.
Licences from £30, as a one off payment with no annual fee.
Curriculum stage
KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, FE, HE
Acognia Ltd
Suite 36
88-90 Hatton Garden
London
EC1N 8PN
United Kingdom
Telephone: 0333 577 0053
Website: http://www.acognia.com
Email: info@acognia.com
Enabling Technology Ltd aims to supply the most appropriate and cost-effective assistive technology solutions for people of all ages with learning, physical or visual impairment. We draw on over fifteen years of experience in our field and use a wide variety of technologies, with additional ergonomic products as necessary, which are then integrated and configured to meet the specific needs of our clients. Expert training taking full account of the client's abilities is provided to maximise the efficiency of any assistive technology solution.
Whether for study, work or recreation, we are able to provide and support your assistive technology requirements.
Enabling Technology Limited
Castlefields
Stafford
ST16 1BU
Telephone: 01785 243111
Website: http://www.enablingtechnology.com
Wordshark (reading and spelling) and Numbershark (numeracy) support the latest Curriculum. They keep the same trusted formula of carefully graded material and the variety of motivating activities to work on each topic. Children learn well when engaged, and new features make this process even simpler.
1 Lochaline Street
London
W6 9SJ
United Kingdom
Telephone: 0208 748 5927
Fax: 0208 748 2120
Website: http://www.Wordshark.co.uk
Email: sales@wordshark.co.uk
Flexitables are the most ingenious and simplest idea to help all children understand the basic principles of maths
Multiplication/Division,
Addition/Subtraction,
Fractions/Percentages/Decimals
and the traditional 100 Square.
They are soft flexible plastic folding grids with vertical and horizontal channels that allow children to continuously fold them again and again without them being damaged giving far greater life than similar paper or cardboard products.
As the grids are manipulatives they are also a great resource for Special Needs tuition for Dyslexic and Autistic pupils as they can help improve their hand/eye/brain co-ordination.
Flexitable Limited,
5 Brittons Drive,
Northampton,
NN3 5DP
Tel: 01604 648111
Fax: 01604 648777
Website: www.flexitable.co.uk
