Wildflowers offers a responsive play programme that can be individually tailored to help with any of the following :

Goals:

  • Developing Social Skills

  • Strengthening Emotional Regulation

  • Boosting Problem Solving

  • Encouraging Creative Thinking

  • Expanding Self-Expression and confidence

  • Making peer connections, learning how to play

  • Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity with learning & socialising

  • Autism Spectrum Conditions

  • Specific Learning Considerations

  • Externalised behaviours

  • Sensory barriers and environmental challenges

  • Bullying and Resilience concerns

  • Anxiety and Mental Health Concerns

  • Strengths-focused on developing independence

What will we do?

  • Interactive games

  • Role-play & storytelling

  • Creative arts & crafts

  • Mindfulness and emotional check-ins

  • Team-building activities

Why Choose Wildflowers?

Wildflowers will help overcome the obstacles encountered by neurodivergent children with inclusion at school & the broader community…

Poor behaviour can be seen as an obstacle to academic progress resulting in low-set expectations at school for neurodivergent children due to :

  • lack of focus on the process of behavioural change (Paterson et al., 2016).

  • teacher attitudes and perceptions about children’s behaviours vary with undergraduate training (Oglesby, 2018).

  • reactive policies & panic regarding different behaviours (Critcher, 2008) rather than research-informed, ethical & empathetic practices.

  • lack of awareness of environmental barriers and the importance of play interactions for children with sensory conditions (Kelly, 2023).

 The importance of play as a learning tool is often overlooked at school.

When children are happy, there are improvements in both their behaviour and academic outcomes.

This fosters agency, well-being and greater autonomy.

Wildflower’s responsive play programme creates a space where play becomes the mutual communication tool that children can use to learn and develop new social, sensory and emotional coping skills to build relationships.

Wildflowers’ Positive Strategies for Success

  • Small-sized groups (4-6) to respond to individual behaviours

  • Calm, empathetic and positive approach.

  • Support, care, encourage and challenge children toward goals.

  • Increase salience of goals (interest-based/teacher reward-focused).

  • High-value rewards/tokens – both consistent and random.

  • De-escalation/safety for all – minimal verbal language (What are you feeling?)

  • Empathetic listening.

  • Waiting until calm for a response - (Do you need some time for yourself?)

  • Mindfulness - accept what’s happened without judging, let things go – distract and breathe (5 finger/box breathing).

  • Diversions - Choose a calming thing, sitting quietly, a fidget toy, a game, headphones, music, snack.

Benefits

Social & emotional learning skills that …

  • Target challenges and support strengths

  • Promote play skill development – physical, social & cognitive

  • Improve resilience and self-esteem

  • Create capacity building & independence

  • Decrease anxiety & stress

  • Improve self-regulation and coping skills

  • Manage anger and behaviour

  • Promote acceptance and tolerance

  • Learn to negotiate with others & in teams

  • Increase wellbeing through socialisation

  • Deliver improved academic outcomes

  • Assist engagement with the broader community

  • Promote positive opportunities for future mental health & wellbeing