Race to your Rocket is an engaging card game to support social, language and communication skills. Suitable for children with a reading age of 7+ in any setting.
Using space-themed questions, children practise key communication skills of speaking and listening, improving focus on others during interactions and building rapport whilst discovering shared interests to help scaffold ongoing friendships.
The game provides a structured intervention activity to develop language skills for speech and communication related targets on EHCPs.
Playing the game regularly also supports children's social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) making it ideal for small groups.
Suitable for children with a reading age of 7+. There is no real upper age limit for players. We have received excellent feedback from day care centres for adults who require supported living, who have used the game.
Great for use in all settings
Mainstream or alternative provision settings by ELSAs or TAs.
Therapy sessions delivered by SLTs and OTs, or as part of their suggested programmes for schools and other settings to address children's EHCP targets.
After school clubs or youth and community groups/ day care centres as a small group activity or as an icebreaker activity when a new individual joins the group.
Empowering Skills Through Play
Why Choose This Game?
Builds Core SEMH Skills
- Strengthens listening, attention and memory
- Encourages turn‑taking and positive peer interaction
- Supports confidence, communication and connection
- Provides low‑pressure social practice for anxious or reluctant children
Directly Supports EHCP SEMH Targets
- Gives structured opportunities to practise social communication
- Helps children develop self‑regulation through predictable routines when played regularly
- Offers repeated, meaningful interactions that align with SEMH outcomes
Designed for ELSAs, SENCOs, TAs and Therapists
- Quick to set up and simple to run in any session
- Ideal for small‑group or 1:1 interventions
Why order a Little Spark Game?
It's more than a game; it's a fully supported resource
Short, accessible training videos for staff with clear guidance on how to deliver the game. Promotes staff confidence and continuity of use.
Free game enhancement download is also available.
Free postage available on orders over £45.00.
Race to Your Rocket supports 3 of the 5 key SEL areas defined by the Education Endowment Foundation
Children with strong social and emotional foundations show better behaviour, wellbeing, and academic progress, with Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) evidence linking high‑quality Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) to long‑term success.
Regular play (at least once a week for 6 weeks) of Race to your Rocket will develop:
Relationship Skills
Using our communication skills to ask questions, and practising our ability to focus and listen to the answers.
Practising building rapport with our peers by remembering what they've said previously.
Self Awareness
Knowing our own preferences and opinions and practising voicing these with our peers.
Being aware of different emotions we feel during a game.
Decision making
Making choices about the actions taken each turn.
Choosing our behaviours during game play (links to Self Management too).
Communication and connection building for small groups
Race to your Rocket is an engaging game, using space-themed questions to help children learn more about their peers, and spark conversations that promote social communication skills and confidence.
The game provides a structured intervention activity to develop language skills for speech and communication related targets on EHCPs.
Playing the game regularly also supports children's social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) making it ideal for small groups.
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