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Guide Dogs' offers a range of ideas and resources to support schools and nurseries to engage with pupils, create understanding of blindness and partial sight and teach various stages of the national curriculum.

This provides an impactful and sensitive introduction to a range of inclusion issues - an important part of the National Curriculum and essential for successful integration of blind and partially sighted students into the classroom.

  • Guide Dogs at School

Guide Dogs at School involves early years pupils, primary and secondary classes through Key Stages 1 to 4 in activities that create empathy with visually impaired people, encourages inclusion and tells them about the work Guide Dogs does, and how guide dogs are trained. Guide Dogs at School

Example of contents of curriculum packs

  • Curriculum Packs

Guide Dogs’ curriculum packs support teaching of many subject areas including citizenship and PHSE, such as understanding sensory disability and eye health.

Guide Dogs' educational resource packs are designed to support schools and nurseries in teaching the national curriculum.

Educating young people about social and moral responsibility, and encouraging an interest in broader issues like disability, is a key part of the government’s plans for teaching the curriculum - and it's something Guide Dogs wants to play an active role in.

The packs are full of lesson plans, activity ideas and resources to help teachers introduce ideas ranging from the social issues of sight loss to eye care, in a fun and informative way, to the classroom.

Full range of packs currently available are:

Nursery (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland)
Nursery (Welsh language)
Primary (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) 
Primary (Welsh language)
Secondary (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)
Secondary (Scottish)
Secondary (Welsh language)

How to download the packs

The Guide Dogs Curriculum packs are a free resource, but we do ask that you register with us before downloading them.

Once you've done so, you'll be able to download the pack you want. If you've already registered, please log-in below.

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