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Welcome to all teachers and pupils who are returning to school after 6 months of Lockdown.

During lockdown TACPAC gave free access to Set 5 for the duration and then offered it at half price from the end of July. If your pupils have been lucky enough to have had Set 5 at home, it might be worthwhile asking parents if they have been doing this with their children. We shared lots of information and videos on Facebook to help parents and home-schoolers use TACPAC and these videos are still available if you would like to see them.

If your pupils did have experience of Set 5, there are various options open to you for your use of TACPAC once school starts again.

1) Your pupil might have really taken to set 5 and might be keen to continue in school. Your pupils will have established ways of communicating with their parent. You’ll need to be observant to spot what your pupil likes, or does not like, or wants to share etc. You might like to talk with the parent, who will be full of information.

2) Your pupil may have had to stop using a set suddenly, when lockdown happened. If you’re able to pick up with that same set, watch out for signs of recognition and memory from what you’ve done before, however little you’d been able to do. Your pupil will remember the music, and some of the sequencing.

3) Your pupil might be out of routine, having been at home for 6 months, and might be unwilling to do much of what you’d expect. Do not force the issue, let time settle things. Make a NOW and NEXT board (Look up Now and Next Board on Google). You don’t have to do an entire TACPAC session, you might choose to only do the activity on track one, or just play the music of that set with no other input. Whatever you do, do it in order. Keep to the order the tracks are in and keep to the objects with the music. Even if we only have 6 more weeks of school before we stop again for half term, your pupils will still benefit from their TACPAC Sessions.

We’re very interested to know how your are getting on and if you have any insight or tips for the wider TACPAC community. Please let us know how you get on by visiting the Tacpac Community page

I found the training was delivered well and matched my school’s cohort very well. It was thought provoking and gave me many ideas on how this can be rolled out and introduced. It also enabled me to get a clearer idea around the intent and the purpose of TAC PAC as a communication strategy and how this can be explained to outside agencies such as ofsted.

Cheryl Louis, Treehouse School

I thoroughly enjoyed the whole training day from start to finish. Vanessa was an amazing instructor and pitched the course well with both theory and practical. She was extremely helpful in answering questions relating to my context and I can’t thank her enough. I feel confident in taking this intervention forward in my class of complex P1 learners.

Charlotte Johnstone Teacher Park School

It was really informative. I would encourage parents and other professional to go through Tac Pac training. Found it really innovative. Most surprising fact that it can be done with household simple stuff and doesn’t need to be expensive, very much handy and easy to use for parents/other caregiver and professionals.

Online Training Delegate,

The learning of the importance of the beat and uncovering some of the myths that we had previously been doing in our school so now they can be corrected. I feel I can relay the appropriate content learnt to other staff within my setting now.

Eimear Corrigan, Teacher,, Palmerstone School, Liverpool

I have been working with children with special needs for the past seven years. I have been amazed at the transformation in children who have been exposed to Tacpac. As there are no trainers that I know of in the Perth area, I am interested in becoming a trainer to enable more children to reap the benefits of this wonderful program.

SEN teacher

Hilary, You have given much joy to many with your creation of Tacpac. You really have made a difference to the lives of many children and their families.

Sue Murray,BLENNZ School, New Zealand

Well delivered. I like that even though this training was virtual it still felt very interactive and a safe place to ask questions and have discussions. I do feel like I have the knowledge and skills to begin TACPAC ‘properly’ now (or at least after a few more practice sessions on my niece). Thank you very much.

Emily Parham, Speech & Language Therapist, OXLEAS

The activities were brilliant for being able to practise the movements to the music in a supportive environment. There was no part of the course that I didn’t enjoy and from which I didn’t learn. Although I have used TACPAC before, I hadn’t considered the importance of unknown music without any connotations attached to it for the receiver. This now makes perfect sense and was a revelation!

Ashley Chambers, Portage Practitioner, Kent

Great working with you all

Dom Knight, Oxfordshire Web Services

I messaged my manager during the break to tell her how amazing the training course is; I didn’t expect it to go into as much detail as it did. I liked how the course went into detail about the function of the Limbic System in relation to behaviour and response. I now want to do more research into the physiological aspects of behaviour in Autism to work on positive behaviour support within our homes

Tracey Hamilton, Homes Manager , Albrighton Care

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