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Watch until the end…This is what learning should look and feel like! The right balance between focus and fun. The ability to tailor to children’s interests, personalities, skills and then build on that to expand on their existing knowledge!

It has been lovely to celebrate achievements as students complete another year with us and that children want to continue with us next year because they enjoy tuition and it’s so personalised to them - and they’ve made new friends along the way. If you’d like to book a trial session, please get in touch and we are also offering a summer learning package for £60 before you join us in September, which includes their first session for free when we return (this offer is also available to our existing families)! Please continue to message us or contact us over the holidays as it’s our busiest time for enquiries and our timetable is filling up (which is crazy as this was once the quietest time!😅).

Our email is hello@sowingseedstuition.co.uk or you can call/message us on 01274 003011/07753326202
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It’s been wonderful welcoming so many children, young adults and their families here since we opened our doors! Laura and I sat down earlier to plan the different Stay and Play sessions in the first 5 weeks of summer! We all love the feel and energy of our Thackley site because of how easily it adapts for everyone! Sessions will go live later this week and we have 90 minute group bookings from 9.00-10.30 and 10.45-12.15 every day (except Tuesday which is in the afternoon). If you’d like to hire our space or book to deliver a session, please contact us too!

Thanks to everyone for your support and a big shout out to Yorkshire West Riding Freemasons for donating our beautiful sensory shelter which will offer plenty of shade and outdoor play over summer too! #bradford #childrensmentalhealth #family support #stayandplay #safespace ...

🎉 NEW Youth Group starting in Thackley!

Looking for a relaxed place for your 11-16 year old to make friends, try new activities and have a great time?

Join us for our Youth Group, running Thursdays 6.30 - 7.30pm.

Each session will include a variety of optional activities, including:
🎲 Board Games
♟️ Chess
🧱 LEGO Club
📿 Bracelet Making
🎨 Creative Activities
😊 Plus much more!

It is also a BYOG (Bring Your Own Game!).

We want our youth group to provide a safe, supportive environment where young people in the community can socialise, build confidence and develop new skills while having fun. They can interact as much or as little as they like in a neuro-affirming environment with our specialist team.🥰

☕ We also offer something extra! Parents and carers are warmly invited to stay in our separate meeting space.☺️ This is optional and also offers reassurance for some children and also gives you the opportunity to connect and chat with other parents and carers.

Our Parent & Carer Support Group helps you take advantage and relax with a tea or coffee, meet other families and chat in a friendly, supportive environment.

✨ Spaces are limited!

If you’d like more information or would like to book a place, please DM or email - we’d love to hear from you.

📧 hello@sowingseedswellbeing.co.uk

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💚 No tuition session is the same. All of our sessions are carefully planned and tailored for your child and themed around their interests!

We have different seating options (or no seat at all), different specialists (including dyslexia assessors, SENCOs and SATs and GCSE examiners), and different learning programmes both in person or online.

We are still welcoming students this half term and reserving spaces for September! To book a session, you can do this directly via our website or speak to a member of our team and we can recommend which option will suit your child best. We also have our exclusive summer online learning programme for £60 for 3 months to help keep their brains engaged over summer! #bradford #ofstedregistered #tutor #onlinetutoring #onlinelearning ...

🌱 Today was all about Seedlings! We were short staffed due to some pesky bugs doing the rounds but it was great for Bradford Council’s Early Years Team to visit us on what what we would call ‘a bad day’ - as we were juggling more than usual in the daytime with Thorpe’s fair and staff illness. None of this compromised safety or children’s enjoyment and from the feedback we received, it just gave that extra seal of approval that all the systems we have introduced since we opened our doors after our initial inspection visit are working well!

We received brilliant feedback, and Farzana was so impressed and complimentary about our play workers and management team staff! She said everything is really well set up and flows between rooms; staff know the kids really well and have great relationships with them; they communicate well together and we have clear systems in place so everyone knows what they’re doing. There are plenty of engaging activities and free play plus the option to move between playing inside and outside means we have the perfect space - she said that it is rare to have a wrap around childcare and holiday club that offers this freedom to play in so many different spaces with different areas! We have miner tweaks and ironically one is that we offer too much food 🤣!

If you’d like to book our Seedlings holiday club or childcare (with the added bonus option of tuition too) please get in touch via our link in the comments

P.S. As per usual, apologies as I only video when I’m poorly and have no make up on 🙈🤣.

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🧠⏰💆‍♀️ It’s amazing the power of thinking time and comfortable silence to allow our students’ creativity to flow.

We love tutoring because we celebrate when children make mistakes and say we are glad they are making them! Imagine that? Keep making more mistakes, especially with us! It’s a risk they have taken to try something new and then we look at everything they have learnt from trying something different, what worked well, we can plan from there.

We have welcomed even more children in the final half term this year, launched our online learning platform for summer, as well as booked students in for September!

If you’d like to find out about the different offers we have, check out our website or DM as we have an exciting offer with 3 months of learning in English, Maths or Science for £60, saving 30%!
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📻 Listen to our founder, Rachel, on BBC Radio Leeds tomorrow at 12.15 on the @gaylelofthouse radio show! She’ll be sharing the WHY behind founding Sowing Seeds and our journey so far supporting children and families! 📻 #bbcradioleeds #bradford #tutor #ehcp #eotas ...

We started off with one tutor and have grown over the past 3 and a half years with a team of 22 employed staff and over 50 tutors internationally to offer award-winning tuition, online tuition and coaching, dyslexia support, wrap around childcare and holiday club, support as a non-school alternative provision in Bradford, Leeds and Calderdale, supporting neurodivergent children learn in their own way and support their mental health, sell our family house to buy our premises and live upstairs(very soon!), open our Thackley wellbeing centre to support community health, offer family support and virtual and on site training as well as offer stay and play and bespoke learning for children and adults who needs a bespoke sensory environment and approach too. Apparently we are “doing too much”…but this is only the beginning! DM us to book a taster or find out about all our courses! #bradford #ofstedregistered #tutoring #gcse #ehcp ...

✨We are almost ready and now taking private, group and school bookings from Monday 5th June at Sowing Seeds Sensory inside our Wellbeing Centre, Thackley! You’ll have access to three sensory rooms too! We have purposely designed our space to be accessible and available to all ages (both school age and adults) to provide a safe and relaxing experience for families, carers and groups. As well as opening mid-week, we will be open most weekends and will have plenty of slots available over the summer school holidays! Keep an eye out for our pop-up sessions too! To find out more, contact us via our website on www.sowingseedswellbeing.co.uk #Bradford #nonprofit #sensorycentre #westyorkshire #send ...

🥰 We received a lovely thank you surprise from some of our Seedlings today! We offer plenty of time to get fresh air, play, and eat a nutritious tea - and the option to get support with their learning and homework in our tutoring sessions 4-5pm. When booked together, receive a 10% discount too! (It’s 33.50 for tuition or £40 for school collection and tea and tuition and childcare until 6pm)! 🌱#bradford #ofstedregistered childcareprovider tutor schoolcollection ...

🤩Our incredible team was on the front page of The Telegraph & Argus (Bradford) last week! It’s hard to believe that just under 2 weeks ago we celebrated with the incredible educators who were finalists in Bradford’s Education Awards - and it’s thanks to your nominations 🥰. We didn’t win Specialist Provision of the Year (this year!), and we knew it was a tough category, but to be in the photo on the front cover shows how proud we were to be there.🥰!

We also had the privilege of judging the shortlist for Supporting Member of Staff of the Year - and Stacey (our Head of Operations) and I presented the award. We purposely chose this category over others as it reflects the importance of these key professionals who play an even more important role to support children, families (and all staff) at school, home and in the community. All of the finalists were fantastic and well done to Hayley for winning this award! She was in complete shock and Stacey and I stayed with her on stage, so she could celebrate this moment, as she was so nervous.

We would have loved to invite all our team from Sowing Seeds Alternative Learning and to be able to celebrate how much we’ve grown and what we have already achieved together for our learners and their families. Everyone was there in spirit.💙

To find out more about what we do, visit our website on www.sowingseedstuition.co.uk or DM us 🥰

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It was an emotional day listening to all of the speakers, hearing about all of the experiences (and trauma) of parents and reading the comments from children about their experience in education and now out of mainstream schools. I love teaching and have always been proud to work in education but left as I knew the system was broken and it broke me. Today, we were united in wanting to achieve the same goal for all our children and young people - now and in the future. #westyorkshire #send #ehcp #childrensrights #nonschool ...

🚰👏Well done to our learners for an incredible Friday afternoon! Jordan taught our learners about the different fittings and fixtures and they had plenty of hands-on practical learning by measuring, cutting and connecting the pipes to the taps - even better, there were no leaks! Next week it’s all about electrics 12.30-14.30 and we have the option to deliver as part of the Construction ASDAN short course with one of our learning mentors too! We will also run half termly blocks focusing on one element but want to run tasters this half term for our learners to experience different skills and vocations. #asdan #bradford #nonprofit #preparationforadulthood ...

Our Constrution for Beginners Course with Jordan started this week with an introduction to different tools and joints! One of our learners was taught how to measure, saw and hammer to create a range of joints for the first time! We have more bookings each week, for plumbing this Friday and electrics the following week! This is a 7 week course and sessions can be purely for enjoyment and upskilling or alongside the ASDAN Course with our Learning Mentors. Find out more via our website in the comments section or to book, DM us or email hello@sowingseedsap.co.uk #bradford #send #asdan #constructionskills #functionalskills ...

🤩 We are in the @telegraphandargus today for Specialist Provision of the Year! We are also sponsoring Learning Support Assistant of the Year as it’s such an important role in schools and in our specialist non-school! For more information, check out our website! #bradford #tutoring #send #awards ...

Part 2 - Post radio interview with @bcb106.6fm and @danielle.broadbent ! It flew by and there was so much more I could have talked aboutd validate Danielle’s petition and the reason why more pathways need to be available…without schools being held to ransom by out of date and unfair progress measurement scales, which ultimately have a long term impact on teachers’ mental health and students’ mental health.#bradford #childrensmentalhealth #send #ehcp #sendreform ...

Part 1 - I’m feeling nervous before my first interview on radio at @BCB Radio with @Danielle Broadbent all about Sowing Seeds and opening the conversation about the white paper on SEND reform . #bradford #childrensmentalhealth #nonschool #send #ehcp ...

👀 Take a virtual tour inside our welcoming tuition centre in Idle inside the beautiful Footsteps Theatre School and see why we are different to anywhere else!💚

We have a range of new sessions starting next week for 5-19 year olds from 4-7pm and open from 9-3pm as a non-school for schools, EHE learners and as part of EOTAS packages.

Email hello@sowingseedstuition.co.uk to book a taster session.
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💪My body will hurt tomorrow! I have become more reflective about my own needs and what helps me feel safe and thrive too! After spending so long identifying, planning and adjusting for learners over the past 20 years, I’ve started to look inwards - more so than before - about what works for me and my team (who are just as important!) and celebrating our differences and how we all fit together. Our training day on Monday is all about this - and hopefully having lots of fun along the way! #bradford #childrensmentalhealth #parentsmentalhealthmatters #tuition #teach ...

Here’s a look at what we’ve been up to over the past month! As well as finishing off our sensory rooms and shiny new website, we have been using our main training room for meeting with different Trusts and LAs about our offer, delivered our ASDAN courses and animal therapeutic sessions, finalised our workshops for next week, had lovely walks in the local woods, hosted our first SEND-friendly party AND Rachel also had the privelege of visiting Leeds Beckett Knowledge Centre to listen to Steph from Neurocreators who was delivering a special Neurodivergent Professionals Network talk as part of Neurodiversity Celebration Week! Please get in touch if you’d like to find out more about our workshops, ASDAN and NCFE courses! #bradford #nonprofit #ehcp #socialcare #safespace ...

We know we’ve been quiet on here and that there’s been a lot going on behind the scenes! I thought I’d share another update on our Thackley site as we have lots coming up, including our NEW Basics to construction, electrics and plumbing starting after Easter every Friday 12.30-14.30 with Jordan! We have 7 places available and a programme to cover each week, working independently and as a team of 3 for certain aspects of the course. If you’d like more information and to book, please email hello@sowingseedstuition.co.uk ...

🪑If you know us, you’ll know we’re always gently adapting our spaces and premises to suit the children and young people learning with us! From flexible dynamic seating, and calm low-demand areas, to movement breaks, chunked tasks and tailoring our teaching style. We never expect our learners to simply “fit” the environment. We shape the environment around them. 💛

Over time, we’ve noticed something really important…

By the time some children arrive for tuition — especially in the late afternoon and evening — they’re tired. They’ve worked hard all day at school. They’ve been sitting still, concentrating, managing social situations, following rules. That’s a lot.

And what can look like fidgeting, slouching or losing focus isn’t a lack of effort, it’s often pure mental and physical fatigue.

That’s why we’ve added wobble stools to both our daytime and evening sessions. 🌿

We’re realising they may be even more valuable at the end of the day than we first thought! When energy is low and regulation is harder, gentle movement can:
• Help re-engage tired brains
• Support posture when little bodies are worn out
• Release built-up restlessness from a full school day
• Make learning feel more fun, manageable and less pressured

It’s a small adjustment but those small adjustments can completely shift how your child feels in the room. And when your child feels comfortable and understood, they’re far more ready to learn.

We’ll always keep reflecting, listening and growing because that’s how we thrive too.

If you’d like to chat about how we personalise sessions and support wellbeing alongside learning, our inbox is always open. 🌱

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2025 has done us proud as we end this year on a high ready to open our main studio next week! I’ve been out of action for a whole month wiped out by flu/Covid but today I was finally well enough to start painting! Thank goodness Laura has been on a mission and made sure everything runs to plan! Our sensory spaces will open in February and we will have our Preparation for Adulthood and meeting room ready in March along with our sensory garden and outdoor training area…including our very own forest school. Your donations have been incredible and we can’t thank everyone enough as it wouldn’t be possible without your generosity (and we are unpaid too so it all goes into the non-profit business 💜). The link for our Amazon work list will be shared in a separate post! Yoga with Sharon from @believeandachieveyoga starts on Monday 5th, 5.45-6.45 and 7-8pm and Tuesday 10.30-11.30. Pilates will start the following week! Please DM or contact us on 07753326202 to arrange a visit if you wish to deliver any training or workshops in Thackley (or access any)! We have seating for up to 12 people or you can use our space as a blank canvas to make it your own! Our ASDAN courses for our secondary and adult learners will start in January with a range of workshops from Expressive Arts, Computing, to Animal Care (and more)! You can book one of our 1-2-1 sessions or book a small group session for up to 4 learners. We have so much to share so please get in touch to find out what well-being and educational support we can provide!
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