Supporting staff and students to achieve their full potential since 1968.  Welcome to our weekly CENMAC blog post. Ace Centre Case Study by guest blogger Meghan Ebbage-Taylor (Senior AAC Consultant at

Hadiqa is one of many of our students who has a vision impairment. As well as support from CENMAC, the local vision impairment service also work with Hadiqa. This service has provided a Braillenote Touch Plus device to use in conjunction wit...

Next Monday marks World Down Syndrome Day, a global awareness day to develop understanding of and highlight issues linked with Down Syndrome. This day has been celebrated since 2006, but was officially declared by the General Assembly of the Un...

In this week's blog we hear from Abeer at CENMAC and World Hearing Day – Theme: “To hear for life, listen with care!” 3  March 2022 marked World Hearing Day. This is a campaign held each year by the Office of Prevention of B...

Since the news broke about the situation in Ukraine, there is a constant stream of information available at all times via news outlets and social media feeds. Children and young people have access to all kinds of upsetting images and stories, w...

In this week’s edition, CENMAC have invited the team at AssistiveWare to introduce the Core Word Classroom,  a large collection of learning resources, which are designed to support implementation of any communication system that is based on cor...

'Internet Safety Day challenges not just young people, but everyone to think about their online presence to ensure that the relationships they have online are positive, healthy and respectful.'On the 8 February 2022 this year, we...

This week CENMAC focuses on Children's Mental Health WeekPlace2Be is a charity that provides mental health support to children and young people, families and staff in schools in the UK. ...

Innovative technology is constantly being developed, and occasionally a device comes along that has the potential to have a significant impact on the students CENMAC works with. This month we have been trialing the new ORCAM ...

Charlton Park Academy (CPA) has recently provisioned a new building –  Mulberry Tree House. It con...

Happy New Year! And welcome to 2022!It’s that time of year when our attention turns to setting goals and making promises to ourselves (and others) in areas where we want to make improvements. New Year’s Resolutions can be easy to make, ...

Guest blog by Tim Swingler at SoundbeamUsed in over 5000 special schools and other centres, in more than 30 countries, Soundbeam (the ‘invisible keyboard in space’) has revolutionised music making for youngsters with special needs...

This week we hear from a CENMAC student and also Ambassador.One of our CENMAC Ambassadors, Khamani, wrote about his experiences of being invited to attend the TES SEN Show 2021 with CENMAC. Text by Khamani, CENMAC Am...

Our Charlton Park Academy librarian, Caroline Fielding, has been in touch with Helen Rutter, the author of ‘The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh’ for a short question & answer session to mark Inte...

Charlton Park Academy's librarian Caroline Fielding says:'Last October for Black History Month I shared some of my favourite titles by Black Bri...

World Smile Day took place on Friday 1 October and World Kindness Day is coming up on 13  November. Both days aim to promote the impor...

World Space Week is an international salute to science and technology, and the ways that humans can live better lives through ongoing development in these areas. It was declared as a world-wide even...

Guest blog by Amanda and the Scribeasy Team' I am myself a bit of a perfectionist. This blog has had umpteen different titles. “I wish I was a bird” and "The gift of perfectionism: a blessing, a curse, and the cure" was the o...

Your Child's Right to Sight | Guest blog by SeeAbility. SeeAbility work closely with students in many schools and Charlton Park Academy benefits from their ongoing support. As part of the CENMAC team’s professional developmen...

National Coding Week  by David Howard, CENMAC Advisory TeacherCoding is everywhere, we use modern computing equipment and technology in all facets of life and at CENMAC we provide students with superb innovative technology that jus...

This year’s UNESCO International Literacy Day will be celebrated on 8 September. For over 50 years it has raised awareness “of the importance of literacy as a matter of dignity and human rights, and to advance the literacy agenda towards a more...

As we end the school year, many of us are looking forward to spending time with friends and family, visiting new places and having some time to relax after a busy year. If you need to speak to someone during the summer term and h...

In this week’s edition, CENMAC have invited guest blogger Victoria Oakes (Storytelling & Digital Destinations Lead, Microsoft UK) to ...

This year saw CENMAC’s annual six-week-long Spring project between Charlton Park Academy (CPA) students and student social workers at the University of East London restructured as an online venture.  In previous years the social worker ...

Transition is a time of moving on to new stages and settings, a time of growth and adventure, but for many of our students, it is a time of nervous uncertainty as they prepare for change.Listen to find out how transition has changed due...