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Neville's Cross Primary School

Relly Path, Durham, DH1 4JG

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Home / SEND / SEN Specialist Expertise

SEN Specialist Expertise

SENCO and SEN Staff

Our SENCO is Mrs N Oxnard. She can be contacted via the school email address or by contacting the school office. She holds a BA in Primary Education, Post Graduate Certificate in Supporting Children in Education with Autism and is trained in ‘Drawing and Talking’.  More details of the SENCO’s role can be found in the SEN Policy which you can find in the School Policies section of our website.

SUPPORT STAFF

Mrs H Wilson

Mrs S Sedgewick

Mrs A Charters

Mrs E Sugden (EYFS Apprentice)

Mrs K Talbot (HLTA)

Miss A Biggs (HLTA)

Mrs V Christie

Mrs B Young (HLTA)

Miss C Dawson (TA Apprentice)

Mrs L Knowd (HLTA)

All staff have attended training on;

  • Attachment Difficulties
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Use of EpiPen medication
  • Safeguarding Level 1

External Specialists and Other Bodies

The school enjoys good working relationships with a wide range of people who provide services to children with SEND and their families.

The external specialists may:

  • Act in an advisory capacity
  • Extend expertise of school staff
  • Provide additional assessment
  • Support a child directly
  • Suggest statutory assessment is advisable
  • Consult with all parties involved with the child

These include:

  • Durham County Council Local Offer
  • Durham SEND Information,  Advice and Support Service
  • Autism Spectrum Communications Team
  • One Point Family Support
  • CAMHS
  • Crisis Response
  • Education Psychology Service
  • Occupational Therapy
  • School Nurse Team
  • Social Care and Health Team
  • Speech and Language Therapy
  • Behaviour Support Service

How We Secure Specialist Expertise

Our Additional Needs Budget is used to support children and young people with SEN. In 2020/21 this amount is approx. £42,000. The spending of this is monitored by the Head teacher and SENCO.

This is used to support children and young people with SEND by offering a wide range of intervention and enhancement programmes within school and through our partnerships with other agencies and professionals within the Local Authority. At Neville’s Cross Primary School and Nursery we provide the following additional support to our children with SEND:

  • Small group and individual targeted intervention work with a Teacher or TA
  • Talkabout (social communication)
  • Time to Talk (social skills)
  • Lego Therapy (Social Communication)
  • Power of 2 (a maths enhancement programme)
  • IDL (reading and spelling)
  • Toe By Toe (reading support programmes)
  • Word Wasp (spelling support)
  • 1-1 speech and language support including specific programmes provided by Speech and Language Therapy
  • Emotional Wellbeing support from the Local Authority

If a child has complex special educational needs, we could also receive additional funding from the Local Authority to meet the agreed outcomes.

SEN Information Report

  • Introduction
  • Our SEN Provision
    • The kinds of SEN that are provided for:
    • Our approach to teaching children & young people with SEN
    • How we adapt the curriculum and learning environment for children & young people with SEN
    • How we identify, assess and review children with special educational needs
    • How children with SEN engage in all activities?
    • How we evaluate the effectiveness of SEN Provision
  • Support for Emotional & Social Development
  • Looked After Children with SEND
  • SEN Transition
  • SEN Specialist Expertise
  • Consulting with our SEN Pupils, Parents & Carers
  • Compliments, Complaints & Feedback
  • Key Policies
BIG 2015 2016
Toilet twinning
Food for life Partnership Bronze
Arts Council Artsmark Award
Healthy School

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Relly Path

Durham

DH1 4JG

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