Calm Corner Essentials — What Goes In It
What to put in a primary classroom calm corner — soft seating, regulation tools, visual aids, calming books, quiet activities. With honest notes on what genuinely helps children self-regulate and what's just decorative.
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Page count: 4. Print-ready PDF — letter / A4 friendly. Click image to see all pages.
Learning objective
Provide teachers and SENCos with a calibrated calm-corner setup list — what to include, what to avoid, and how the corner becomes a self-regulation tool rather than a 'time-out' space.
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