1. Parents Guide to Understanding SEND Provision at Holy Cross

2. Aims of this afternoon:
To ensure that parents are aware the New Code of Practice and what this means for their child
To ensure that parents with children that have SEND needs understand the provision available at Holy Cross

3. New Code of Practice For SEND
For the first time SEND covers children and young people from 0 to 25
New duty to co-operate with LA to best meet the need of our SEND children.
LA have published the ‘Local Offer’
This sets out in one place the provision that is available for children in the area who have SEND. This information needs to be accessible to parents.
From this online directory POD there is a link to each school and their SEN information Report

4. Involving parents
Parental involvement and engagement needs to be a priority for schools.
Parents should be informed of progress of SEND at least 3 times a year and this should be in face to face meetings. This is usually discussing their IEP’s and getting them to contribute to it
Schools should engage with parents when drawing up policies and procedures.

5. New SEND categories: Communication and Interaction
Cognition and Learning
Social, Mental and Emotional Health
NOTE – No behaviour
Sensory and / or physical

6. SEND Stages:
Children needing intervention outside of the daily differentiated curriculum are now called ‘SEN Support’ .
New EHC – Education and Health Care Plans replaces the old statements.
Any child on a statement will have it converted by the LA, supported by the school, by 2017.

7. The Graduated Approach:
High Quality Teaching for all children
Highly differentiated
Providing toolkits for children to learn
Engaging environment- prompts around the room
Target setting with the child
Clear learning intention and outcomes
Children who we place on Monitoring at Holy Cross do not require an IEP it is just focusing us in as they may not be making progress academically or may be unhappy. These will be discussed at Pupil Progress Meetings and with the SENCo as to if this needs to go further

8. SEND Support
This is when additional support has been sought from external agencies (EP, Speech and Language, GP CIT referral, MAST, CAMHS)
When they are receiving additional to and different from High Quality Teaching.
Depending on the individual child, it can require an IEP
If more than one agency are involved and it is decided that a more structured approach is needed- This is called a Team Around Me meeting

9. SENCo and Teacher working together
‘Increased responsibility on all teachers’
SEND children can not be separated off to have their individual needs met it needs to be embedded into daily practice with ‘adaptation and enhancements clearly evident’ at classroom level.
SENCO to meet with teachers to discuss provision and decide as a team next steps .

10. Identifying need and gathering evidence:
Referral made to LA for assessment for EHC plan.
If child continues to make less than expected progress, move to SEN Support. Increased, targeted interventions with support from outside agencies, if appropriate.
CT notices that children
are falling behind. CT and
SENDco agree on short- term,
needs specific intervention.
Assess , Plan, Do, Review.
Core Group – Needs met by differentiation
Monitoring Group
SEND
EHC

11. Interventions available at Holy Cross
This is a sample of some of the interventions that are available in addition to the differentiated curriculum
Cognition and Learning
Precision teaching this is 1:1 daily
First Number a maths intervention
Maths and literacy support groups
Reading 1:1 and in small groups
Social, Emotional and Mental Health
Learning Mentor ,once a week
Thrive, once a week
Drama therapy once or twice a week
Therapeutic play therapy once a week

12. Interventions available at Holy Cross
Communication and interaction
Speech therapy
Social skills groups
Sensory and physical
Motor skills group focusing on gross and fine motor skills
Handwriting programmes
During 6 weekly pupil progress meetings it will discussed with the Head of Learning, Class Teacher and SENCO which if any of these interventions would be appropriate for your child

13. IEP Provision

14. IEP targets and review

15. Smart Targets

16. Any Questions? Please feel free to ask anything over tea and cake
Requests for our next meeting would be really appreciated
Thank you for coming it is lovely to see you all