National and local updates

SENCo Cluster Meetings

Autumn 2012

Gloucestershire SENCo Clusters• Meet 3 times a year

• Generic and personalised agenda

• Impact upon SEND children – monitored and analysed

• Funding for projects available

• Schoolsnet website

Ofsted – key strands• Raised expectations• Governance – how does the GB know the school is doing as well as it

can do?

• Reading, literacy and mathematics as high priorities

• Pupil Premium – How spent? What impact?

• Leading the drive for teaching quality; all leaders as leaders of learning

• Focus on CPD and performance management• Vulnerability – which pupils? What progress? Those with multiple

vulnerabilities?

• Behaviour – pupils active in classroom, not passive? Bullying?

Ofsted continued:

• TAs and other adult workers – quality and impact:

Do they add value?

Are they value for money?

What CDP have they received?

How do TAs tackle identified weaknesses?

How do they promote participation? Independence? Increasing standards?

Ofsted continued:

• Progress – progress from starting points and speed with which gaps are closing

• Views of parents

• Internal monitoring and evaluation – records. What difference has it made?

• Case studies – where academic outcomes have improved and what the school did to make the difference

• Data

Draft Legislation

Wordings changed to include academies

Single Plan

Refer to Green Paper: Next Steps

New code and indicators when new Bill is passed

Response to The Green Paper

Support and aspiration: A new approach to special educational needs and disability

Progress and next steps

Section 3 – Next steps

3.34 In 2012 we will work with experts in the education sector, including Teacher Associations, SENCOs, head teachers and educational psychologists on replacing the current categories of School Action and School Action Plus (and their equivalents in the early years) with a single category. In doing so we will ensure a focus on outcomes rather than processes in SEN identification, and on ensuring that pupils’ needs are not missed. We will then revise the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice to give clear guidance on identifying children who have SEN and on the operation of a new single category of SEN.

Educational Psychologists

Info to follow…………

New Lead EP appointed from January 2013 – Deb Shepherd

Local news• Glos Ed Leaders for SEND

http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/schoolsnet/index.cfm?articleid=103472

• SENCo Conferences: 7th and 8th November; Forest Green Rovers – contact barbara.harman@gloucestershire.gov.uk

• SEND newsletter: http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/schoolsnet/index.cfm?articleid=103472

• Free training for SENCos – primary and some secondary with NASEN http://www.nasentraining.org.uk/south-west/

Interventions

• In Gloucestershire Children Count

• Literacy and numeracy interventions • What are you using?

• Which pupils?

Future updates?