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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Managing your Provision Map account during lockdown
Provision Map – Lockdown – What do I do with my account?This blog was presented as a webinar on 15th and 22nd January 2021. To access a recording of the webinar please click here. Lockdown 3 – and the semi-closure of school gates along with a lot of unanswered...
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...
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....
Templates – (IEP’s, Learning Plans & IDP’s)
As a long-term veteran of the SENCO world, I have seen variations of learning plans come and go and often cycle back round again with a different name. I like the good old-fashioned “learning plan” that is loaded as default on the system, it has everything I need:...
What do governors need to know and how can your Provision Map software help?
Governors – part one Whilst your Head Teacher or Principal is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the school, the strategic responsibilities lie with the governing board (or if you are a multi academy trust with the trustees who may have delegated to local...
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...
The SENCO Year Part 2: Using Tes – Provision Map
The SENCO Year Part 2 using Tes - Provision MapThe second half term:Join an intimate SENCO Webinar with our in-house SENCO Abigail Hawkins. We want to provide SENCOs with tools to help them reduce their workload and support them through the phases of the SENCO Year...
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...
The SENCO Year Part 1: Using Tes – Provision Map
The SENCO Year using Tes - Provision MapThe first half term:Join an intimate SENCO Webinar with our in-house SENCO Abigail Hawkins. We want to provide SENCOs with tools to help them reduce their workload and support them through the phases of the SENCO Year 13th...
Special educational needs in England 2020: How does your school compare?
Special educational needs in England 2020: How does your school compare? On 2nd July 2020, the DfE released their annual special educational needs (SEN) statistics publication, providing a summary of data taken from the January 2020 school census. The report...
SEND in Mainstream Schools: Implications of the EEF report for school leaders
SEND in Mainstream Schools: Implications of the EEF report for school leaders Pupils with special educational needs and disability (SEND) have the greatest need for excellent teaching and high quality support in order to achieve positive outcomes and have a rich and...
Back to School Planning: Suggestions for SENCOs
Back to School Planning: Suggestions for SENCOs As leaders continue to plan for all pupils to return full time to school from the beginning of the autumn term, one of the challenges they face is how to ensure pupils with SEND return successfully. The government...
Provision Map – New Features April 2020
We are pleased to announce the following features are now available within the Provision Map software. Please refer to our Knowledgebase on how to use these new features. Safeguarding Features Allow the main DSL to access the “Staff Details” page We now allow the main...
Finance during School Closures
In these unprecedented circumstances we ask that all payments and invoices are paid for electronically where possible via BACS. Please do not send cheques where at all possible, contact support@edukey.co.uk if our bank details are required. We thank you for your...