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...
Templates – (IEP’s, Learning Plans & IDP’s)

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:...
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...