Beyond Words

About 

Books Beyond Words are award-winning word-free picture stories, covering themes such as physical and mental health, life skills, relationships, abuse, trauma, grief and bereavement.

Widely used in community, health and social care contexts for many years, an increasing number of both mainstream and special school settings have more recently adopted our resources and approach to support learners to understand appropriate relationships, to stay safe and healthy and to be more empowered decision makers.

Amid rising mental health needs among children and knowing that Social, Emotional and Mental Health was becoming a curriculum area in all schools in 2021, Beyond Words ran a study into how their visual stories could support the SEMH curriculum. The Open Book Project proved that our word-free resources consistently:

• empower children and young people to take control of their own feelings and behaviour
• facilitate greater and deeper understanding of self and social context
• build pupils’ emotional repertoire, insight and empathy
• broaden pupils’ vocabulary and language skills
• capture imagination and improve engagement in the classroom.

Find out more about how to bring the Beyond Words approach to your school by clicking here.

For further information, please contact admin@booksbeyondwords.co.uk or phone 01372 234100