Special Educational Needs Attia Rafiq-Sharif and Stacia Beeney Senco/Inclusion Manager Co-ordinator Snowflakes New Bridge Nursery School

Format of session -What is Special needs? -The Process of SEN support -What is a SENCO? -What is Special needs? -The Process of SEN support -Why is it important to identify special needs early? -SEN and inclusion at New Bridge Nursery School -Questions

What is a SENCO? Special Educational Needs Coordinator Qualified teacher Ensuring all staff understand their responsibilities to children with SEND Advising and supporting staff Ensuring parents are closely involved in any SEN discussions about their child I know the journey I understand what it is like having a child with special needs and all children’s needs are different but I am here to support any parents who would like my support or advice.. Make an appointment to see me

What is special needs? A child has special education needs if: They have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made for her or him. For children aged 2 or more, special educational provision is educational provision or training provision that is additional to or different from that made generally for other children or young people the same age. This means anything more than most children would need in a mainstream setting. So here we have 13 children with 1 key worker. If after settling a child cant sit with the group/access their learning throughout the nursery in the way that most children can then they might have a special need. Such children will need close monitoring and might need extra support to enable them to achieve this.

Areas of need: Children may be identified as having difficulties within the following broad areas of need: Communication and Interaction Cognition and Learning Social emotional and mental health difficulties Sensory and or physical needs Explain what each of these in brief: 1- Talking, understanding, playing with other children/joining in/playing alone… 2- What they are able to do developmentally- follow the EYFS Curriculum which shows what most children can do in each area of learning-7 3-Struggle emotional needs, Autism.. 4- Gross or fine motor delays, need to touch, smell, more than most, loud noise intolerant, all affect learning.

Process of SEND support at New Bridge Nursery School Early Identification Discussions with key worker and parents Additional Group Support Expression of concern SEN Support Emergency funding Educational Health and Care needs assessment

Why is it important to identify special needs early? The first 5 years of a child’s life can affect future outcomes Appropriate provision enables development and success Social impacts of SEN Putting the right provision in early can mean that a child has access to the best learning provision possible. Depending on the type of SEND early intervention can really mean the difference between a positive school/educational experience and a negative one.

What resources do we have at New Bridge to support children with Special needs? Mainstream: Sensory room OT resources-wobble cushions, fiddle toys, sensory circuits Speech and Language groups Visuals- now and next, good sitting cards.. Makaton signing Snowflake centre: ASC specialist trained staff High staff to child ratios Personalised provision- visual timetables, PECS books Weekly Speech and Language Therapist Daily massage

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