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Welcome to this special edition of the SENsible Magazine, dedicated to Speech and Language! This April 2024 issue is packed with expert advice, strategies, and resources tailored for SENCOs supporting primary and secondary students.
Autism Information
Welcome to our SENCO news and updates series, where we’ll keep you up-to-date with the latest developments, trends, and best practices in the world of Special Educational Needs Coordination. If you’re a SENsible SENCO member, you get even more amazing help, advice and insights when you log in.
Modelling Metacognition: Demonstrating Strategies for Success with SEN Pupils
Discover the importance of educators modeling metacognitive strategies for pupils with special educational needs (SEN). Explore a comprehensive approach that helps SEN pupils observe, emulate, and develop essential metacognitive skills for a successful learning journey.
Socratic Seminars: Engaging Critical Thought Dialogue Within the SEND Setting
Explore the method of Socratic seminars in Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) settings. Discover how these seminars, rooted in Socrates’ questioning approach, encourage deep thinking, active engagement, and higher-order reasoning among SEND pupils.
Fostering Resilience Through Reflective Practice Children with Emotional Behavioural Difficulties
Discover how reflective practice is key to developing emotional regulation and resilience in children facing emotional and behavioural challenges in educational settings.
Understanding Resilience: What It Is and Why It Matters
Explore the significance of resilience in the realm of Special Educational Needs (SEN) and discover its importance for both students and educators. Learn how resilience helps students overcome challenges and educators thrive in an ever-evolving educational landscape.
Hosting Drop-In Sessions: Why and How?
Explore the importance of hosting regular SEND drop-in sessions, fostering open communication, building trust, and engaging parents, pupils, and staff in the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) process. Learn how to plan and execute these sessions effectively and address challenges that may arise.
The Role of SENCO in Reading/Spelling Age Updates
Explore the vital role of SENCOs in updating reading and spelling ages for SEN students. Learn how this data serves as a diagnostic tool, influences interventions, and informs curriculum planning. Discover the importance of collaboration and technology in the process.
Participating in Awareness Weeks: A Guide
Explore the significance of Awareness Weeks for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and how schools can participate. Learn about breaking stereotypes, providing education, building empathy, and celebrating diversity. Get tips on planning and involving various stakeholders.
Accessibility for SEN Students: Strategies for Support in the UK
Discover different strategies and tools for supporting accessibility for SEN students, including assistive technology, accommodations, and modifications, and learn about the importance of promoting access and equity for all students.
Diversity and Inclusion for SENCOs: Strategies for Promoting Equity
Learn about different strategies and approaches for promoting diversity and inclusion as a SENCO, including cultural competence, sensitivity, and creating a positive school culture.
Monthly Newsletter June 23
We’ve taken a break from our normal monthly newsletter, we’ve let Dale and the team at B Squared loose and it seems they have had some fun. They included information on Autism, how doing stuff yourself is not always the best use of your time and how to gain the best outcomes for children with SEND. It’s a great read! Also a big well done to Rebecca Banks who is our monthly winner of the SENbooks £100.
Behaviour Interventions for SENCOs: Managing Behaviours
Learn about different behaviour interventions that SENCOs can use to manage challenging behaviours in the classroom, including positive behaviour support and functional behaviour assessments
SENCO Assessment: Techniques for Supporting SEND
Are you a UK SENCO looking for effective assessment tools and techniques? Discover our informal guide to SENCO assessment and learn how to support students with special educational needs and disabilities.
Choosing the right SEN Software for your School: A Gym Analogy
Getting your school software is right is a difficult thing to do, with so many software companies out there how do you choose which is right?
Pupils with SEN – Teaching Assistants, pay scales, terms and salary
We are in a dire position. Increasing number of EHCPs dictating 1:1 for significant hours and vast time out of lesson for intervention, LA response is ‘write a costed plan’…this does not solve the problem…we CANNOT recruit.