SENCO Year Part 5

The SENCO Year using Tes  - Provision MapThe fifth half term: So, we trundle into the Summer term and whilst those who have the delights of Y11 are normally counting down to the exams and ‘gain time’ on their timetables, SENCOs are as busy as ever. In secondary, my...

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Interventions (or Provisions)

Back when I started provision mapping (which feels like a century ago) I had a lovely collection of sticky sheets with the relevant information that would get duly moved around a board in my office as required.  No one asked me how much something cost, or what an...

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Provision Map Print Centre

Working with our students there will always be a need to share information with other professionals and not all will have access to your Provision Map software – this is where the print centre is a handy feature. The print centre does exactly what you would imagine a...

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SENCO Year Part 4 (Passports)

The SENCO Year using Tes  - Provision MapThe fourth half term: Well, if this was a normal year – which it very definitely isn't – then I would be looking at the reviews for my provisions, setting up my summer term interventions, and putting in place transitional...

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SMART targets for SEN plans

A goal without a plan is just a wish Antoine de Saint-Exupery   I would be surprised if you are unfamiliar with the concept of SMART target setting, however, familiarity doesn’t always make us very good at it, I’ll admit to struggling at times and sometimes we need to...

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Pupil Premium

    Whilst Free School Meals may have been the focus of headlines and the digital divide for those students, those of us based inside the walls of education know that it actually encompasses a far larger group of students.  Those who are currently in receipt...

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Remote Education and Lockdown #3

    When we experienced the first lockdown, there was a message that schools were ‘childcare’, and the national curriculum was suspended.  That message eventually changed, and schools were expected to provide some form of education, although being new to the...

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Wellbeing in Schools

  Having an app to track wellbeing is great (and we offer a brilliant one, more details here: https://pages.classcharts.com/wellbeing/ ) but gathering data is no use unless we are going to put something in place to support the identified issues. Here is a...

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Measuring Outcomes

My background is in science and I like maths – sorry! It does, however, mean that I like to be able to use the same scale to compare several, unrelated things and that comes in really handy when we transfer over to looking at SEN data. The reason we put interventions...

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Safeguarding

Safeguarding

Safeguard My School Generally, the SENCO forms a part of the wider safeguarding team in schools, after all, we are the ones who ask all the prying questions into a child’s background and spend a lot of time building up relationships with families.  It makes sense....

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School Robins

School Robins

School Robins: I’ve been teaching for too long!  I recall the days where you needed information about a particular student and would send little Freddie, who was in need of a sensory break, on an errand with a piece of paper in a large brown envelope marked with staff...

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Is it Provision?

Is it Provision?

Is it Provision?  SEN has so many acronyms that when we come across a normal word we try to add multiple meanings to it! In Edukey’s Provision Map we use ‘PROVISION’ to mean anything that you provide to a student that is additional to or different from what the...

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