Happy New Year
Happy New Year to you all and many thanks to those of you who have supported this new venture in 2020. Starting a new venture at any time can be a daunting task, but launching the new website just a week before the Covid-19 pandemic hit these shores was just really...
Christmas Pegs
I've emphasised in other Blog Posts about the importance of varying the size and type of pegs used by pupils to complete peg-based tasks such as those contained on this website. Pupils will be in danger of becoming bored with a task if both the task and the pegs used...
Change the Peg
As I eluded to in a previous Blog Post, it is always good to vary an activity that a pupil is engaged with, otherwise you run the risk of them becoming bored with the activity, even though the activity would still be of educational benefit to them. One easy way of...
How a Peg Activity Works
As I have explained in a previous Blog Post, we stumbled across the idea of using clothes pegs for work tasks while working with autistic pupils in a special class attached to a mainstream school. We found that using the clothes pegs allowed certain pupils to access...
Literacy Resources
There is a variety of peg-based Literacy Resources on this website. The Peg methodology can be used to teach many aspects of literacy including comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, language and phonics. The embedded video below gives a small flavour of some of the...
Fine Motor Peg Activity
Using pegs for fine motor activities is a great way for the development of muscle control in a small child's hands. You can create many fine motor activities using pegs that don't cost a lot of money - this is one such activity. In our special class for autistic...
Pegs of Different Colour
Like all of us, pupils will get fed up and bored using the exact same type and colour of pegs with all of your peg resources. It is good practice to change things up a little every now and again and this change will give added interest to the AEN pupil. Changing the...
Storing Peg Resources
In my school, we have been making and creating peg-based resources for pupils in our special class for autistic pupils for many years. Before long, we discovered that the storage of these resources became an issue. As the range and quantity of our peg resources...
Large Pegs
Pegs come in all shapes and sizes and each one brings with it its own advantages and challenges for the pupil. I purchased these pegs some years ago while abroad on summer holidays. You can generally pick them up in the tourist hot spots where they are sold as pegs to...
The Power of the Peg
While working previously in a Special Class for autistic pupils, we discovered, almost by accident, how pupils with additional educational needs could access the curriculum when the materials presented to them were differentiated according to their needs and...