Management Information Sheet
Inclusion and SEND Support for Schools - Summer update
Welcome back to the Summer Term!
We have a fantastic offer of fully funded and subsidised Inclusion and SEND advice, guidance, training and resources for your school this half-term, supporting you to develop more inclusive school cultures and curriculums for the whole-school community.
Early Intervention and Prevention
Led by Josie Rayner-Wells, Senior Adviser Inclusion, Early Intervention and Prevention
Political impartiality workshop: This virtual workshop will help school leaders and teachers use the new DfE guidance to understand legal requirements relating to political impartiality in schools.
Let's talk about race - developing a shared language and practice: We are delighted to invite Professor Paul Miller to share his 'Let's talk about race' workshop with Norfolk's education leaders. Paul is the first black person to be appointed a professor of educational leadership at a UK university. He has been a secondary school teacher in Jamaica and in London and has written extensively on race discrimination.
Managing lunchtime moments: Fully funded webinar and resources to ensure your MSA's are embedding effective practice, promoting positive pupil behaviours that support whole-school improvement.
Emotionally Based School Avoidance Surgery Sessions: For some pupils Covid-19 may have created or exacerbated anxieties in engaging with school. These fully funded bespoke surgery sessions provided by Norfolk EPSS will provide targeted strategies to address individual pupil needs
RSHE:
Bootcamp (Primary): This fully funded webinar and accompanying RSE teaching resource will provide your school with everything it needs to extend beyond statutory compliance, embedding best practice RSHE.
RSHE Surgery: Provide opportunities to receive DFE updates, new resources, guidance, and solutions to common challenges.
PATHS:
Network meeting; Promoting peer support and pupil voice: This session will enable your school to promote and support pupil wellbeing through pupil voice and peer-led approaches.
New leads support session: This support session will equip new PATHS Leads to be effective and achieve a measurable impact through their role.
Norfolk Steps:
Step On Catch-Up: Available to schools and settings where Step On certification is currently in place; this training offers an ideal opportunity to bring all staff up to date with the Step On approach to positive behaviour management.
Steps Tutor Refresher: This training is compulsory for those wishing to maintain their Norfolk Steps Service Tutor certification.
Learning and SEND
Led by Alison Toombs, Senior Adviser Inclusion, Learning and SENDOffer of support:
- Training packages, including Norfolk SENDCo Now, SLCN Level 4 and a range of twilights - contact inclusionandsend@norfolk.gov.uk for information.
- Adviser support for leaders and SENDCos in the areas of:
- Identification of need (INDES)
- Provision (IPSEF and PEaSS)
- High quality teaching
- SEND Forum; A forum to bring Special Educational Needs and Disabilities professionals together to learn, share and develop provision across Norfolk. An opportunity for Head Teachers, SENCos and SEND Governors to access a termly local forum, where they can meet with Local Authority adviser and specialists and form partnerships with other schools and academies.
- SEND Support Plans: This session will provide an opportunity for discussion and sharing good practice to develop some consensus around what a good SEN Support plan should include.
- SEN Information Report Sharing Good Practice: This interactive twilight will signpost available tools to support settings in developing their SIR. It will provide top tips from a recent audit and some examples of good practice. There will be an opportunity for settings to discuss and share good practice.
- E3 funding: Element 3 is a pupil specific (Yr R to 11) funding stream which is for mainstream schools to access if they have children or young people with high special educational needs and/or disabilities.
- E3 funding workshop
- Access Through Technology service
- Norfolk Portage Service
SEMH and Transitions Team
Led by Vicki Setters, Senior Adviser Inclusion, SEMH and Transitions
Offer of support:
- Bespoke, intensive support for schools in relation to CYP that are close to exclusion
- Support for schools with the transition of CYP that are placed via the Fair Access Team
- Support for schools with ensuring effective Managed Moves
- Exclusions Team support
- Support with identifying whether an SEMH SRB application is appropriate
The Inclusion and SEND Helpline is available for urgent requests for support: 01603 307736.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact us on our mailbox, providing a single point of enquiry and entry to our services: inclusionandsend@norfolk.gov.uk.