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.
