What steps has Greenford High School

taken to be ready for SEN Reform?

TWENTY FIVE students with statements

FOUR ACHIEVEMENT WORKERS

FOUR HIGHER LEVEL TEACHING ASSISTANTS,

WHO EACH ALSO TEACH 12 LESSONS A WEEK

PLUS ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE

students needing SEN support

School budget cut of £500,000

this financial year

TWENTY FIVE students with statements

FOUR ACHIEVEMENT WORKERS ???

To initiate and sustain an active engagement with families of identified students to help them explore issues and make changes in areas which may be affecting their child’s development. This will involve home visits.

What steps has Greenford High School

taken to be ready for SEN Reform?

Assess

Assess

Plan

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Judith EnrightDeputy Headteacher

Lou GrimleyAssistant Head (Behaviour)

Sara HussanSENCO

Marlon HymanMentor

Anna BingLead Teacher for Autism

Plan: Parent and Carer Forums

Plan

Lead teachers: Autism, Nurture,

Literacy, Dyslexia, Reading

External Professionals: Educational Psychologist,

Clinical Psychologist (CLiPs), Speech and

Language Therapist, Art Therapist.

SENCO on leadership team

managed by AHT – Inclusion

SENPlan meetings, and Focus Group meetings

for teachers & professionals to discuss key students.

Meetings with families,

supported by Pastoral

Speaking and Listening (S&L)

[Speech, Language and Communication Needs

SLCN]

Identification

MeetingNeedsReview

and improve

Intensive

Universal

Catch-Up

•Y13 in London ESU Debate finals , w support fr Miss Jacobs•Y8 w statement in rap group to learn active listening:self-help strategies: SaLT, key worker, HoY10

•Y7 vocab and narrative groups w HLTAs trained by SaLT to teach accredited intervention (Education Endowment Foundation EEF)•Y7 & 9 social skills groups to meet needs: SaLT, key workers, Lead Teachers-Autism & Nurture•Whole Story project: story-telling

•Y7 A period a week of S & L, scheme of work planned by KS3 English leader w SaLTon “Active listening”.•Y7 and 8:S & L one of the Thinking Skills-IGNITE talks in Y7, news reports and Greenford Heroes drama Y8•S&L skills are tracked in planners, badges awarded for good skills, whole school awareness & developing use.

Training & awareness: all Learning Support (LS) & pastoral staff & English teachersScreeningReferrals incl on transitionAdditional assessmentProfiling needsSharing results & strategies

SENCO, Deputy SENCO, Head Inclusive Learning, English teachersHLTAs, Achievement Workers, Lead TeachersSaLT: 1 day a fortnight £40K Education Endowment Foundation grant for S & L Catch-UpRooms & timetabling

Resources

Monitor impact: progress data?Compare vs control group (EEF)Re-assessmentInterview teachers , children, familiesValue for money? Cost v impactWho is stuck?Where are the gaps in provision?

Provision Map

example

Do

Quality Teaching First

EVERY teacher is a teacher of children with special needs

Differentiation is a big focus for CPD, led by Lead Teachers, HLTAs attached to depts, HODs/TLRs & External Professionals

Tried and tested interventions

Groups and one to one provision

Working closely with alternative providers

Key workers: HLTAs and Achievement Workers

Do : “tried and tested interventions”?

Speech and Language: Vocabulary Enrichment

and Narrative Intervention programmes (Joffe)

Reading Lab,Corrective Reading (comprehension)

1st Class in Number

Toe by Toe (dyslexia), Stareways, Pre-Teach Vocab

Image in Action

Social Skills, Social Stories, Circle of Friends

Comic Strip cartoons, Lego Therapy

Review

Review

Three structured conversations with parents/carers and the young people:1. Autumn Tea Party with key workers2. Form tutor on Raising Achievement Day3. Annual Review

Review

Monitoring impact

Review

Monitoring impact

Sessions

Stdtsper session

Cost of time staff leading intervention

Total no of students

No of students who made good progress

No of students who did not make good progress

Cost £ per student who made progress

Literacy: guided reading/reading lab 108 7 2700 25 18 7 150

Catch up Reading 1980 1 35,000 55 48 6 729

Next steps?

FUNDING CHALLENGES

& improved communication with Ealing SEN

JOINT WORKING w primary schools and colleges

Additionally Resourced Provision

FORM TUTOR training