Learning Support in Woodbury – Kate Coldrick, Neurodiversity Learning Support Consultancy
Based in Woodbury, Devon, Kate Coldrick helps families create neurodiversity-friendly home learning routines. Through NLSC, she supports parents with literacy tutoring, inclusive resources, and local learning ideas that make education feel flexible, practical, and rooted in everyday life.
Woodbury has become the heart of my work with families who want education to feel more human, flexible, and rooted in real life. Through the Neurodiversity Learning Support Consultancy (NLSC), I help parents in and around Woodbury, Exmouth, and Exeter design learning activities that grow from their child’s interests and strengths. Whether you’re home educating or topping up school provision, my approach combines structured literacy and numeracy teaching with an understanding of how neurodivergent learners thrive.
Learning in the community
In Woodbury, learning doesn’t have to look like a classroom. Families use the spaces and rhythms of village life – the shop, churchyard, and nearby nature walks – as extensions of the curriculum.
I work with parents to turn everyday experiences into meaningful reading and writing opportunities: reading recipes while cooking, mapping walks to practise directional language, or writing postcards inspired by a local landmark. These small, real-world tasks build literacy confidence through purpose and connection.
Using the Woodbury Learning Pack
The Woodbury Learning Pack is a set of locally themed resources that link literacy and numeracy practice to familiar places and stories. It includes short reading texts, creative writing prompts, and adaptable word-study activities designed for use at home or within small learning groups. I support parents in tailoring the pack for their child’s age, interests, and sensory profile – using structure and repetition to create security, and curiosity to spark motivation.
(You can explore the pack further on katecoldrick.com for ideas on how to use it within your own home setting.)
Connecting through Instagram
Many Woodbury parents first come across my work through Instagram, where I share photographs, local stories, and examples of how to bring literacy to life outside the classroom. Each post demonstrates a practical way to make reading and writing more meaningful – whether through a picture prompt, a local history fact, or a simple reflection on how neurodivergent learners engage best when language connects to their real experiences.
Instagram has become a space where parents can see inclusive education in action and share their own ideas.
How I can help
I offer:
- One-to-one literacy tutoring for home-educated learners
- Parent consultations to plan home learning routines
- Custom resource design for reading and writing confidence
- Advice on creating sensory-friendly, predictable learning environments
If you’re based in Woodbury, Exmouth, Budleigh Salterton, or Exeter, and want to make home learning work better for your child, I’d love to help.
Through NLSC, I support families to use their community as the classroom – building literacy, confidence, and joy in learning close to home.
Kate Coldrick is an educator, researcher, and inclusive learning specialist based in Woodbury near Exeter. She supports schools, families, and home-educated learners through consultancy, training, and resources on neurodiversity and inclusive practice.
Kate Coldrick – Home Education Consultant for Neurodivergent Learners 