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Positively responding to increasing complexity in our mainstream schools – collaborative learning opportunities to inform strategic and systemic thinking

  • Online
  • 28 Jun 2024 (14:00 - 15:30)

This webinar explores the current context around pressures on mainstream schools due to the shortage of special school placement and how schools can collaboratively and positively respond as system leaders. The webinar will conclude with a panel discussion and questions chaired by Margaret Mulholland (ASCL SEND and Inclusion Specialist). Panel members will include Will Smith, CEO Greenshaw Learning Trust, Alistair Crawford, Co-Chair of National Network of Specialist Provision and school leaders to be confirmed.

Objectives

  • To explore terminology associated with ‘additional provision’ and relevant frameworks and guidance
  • To reflect on how to strategically use SEND data to make evidence-informed decisions
  • To explore the benefits and risks of running additional provision
  • To reflect on the conditions required to enable successful provision

Desired outcomes

The webinar will open a national dialogue around ‘additional provision’. 

Participants will have a more secure understanding of: 

  • The current context
  • Benefits and risks
  • Questions to ask to ensure that decision-making is evidence-informed
  • How mainstream and specialist settings working collaboratively can better support pupil outcomes across local areas.

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Suitable for: Assistant Head Teacher, Consultant, Deputy Head Teacher, Head Teacher, Senior Leader

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Amelie Thompson

Amelie is Assistant Director of Education - SEND and Specialist Provision at Greenshaw Learning Trust. Amelie has also worked as a SENCO and Deputy Headteacher with a focus on SEND/Inclusion. Prior to moving into Senior Leadership positions, Amelie worked as an Advanced Skills Teacher based in classrooms. Her practice has always been focused on the impact of Quality First Teaching in the classroom to support access to a broad, balanced, and meaningful curriculum for all learners. She is passionate about CPD with a particular focus on building opportunities to develop reflective practice.

Amelie is the Regional SEND Lead for South East England and South London (SESLON) region.

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Clare Belli

Clare is Head of Southampton Inclusion Partnership and Outreach Service, based at Springwell Special School in Southampton. She has been a senior leader and teacher across a range of mainstream and special schools, as well as pupil referral units. She holds an MSc in Specific Learning Difficulties from the University of Southampton and an MA in Special Needs and Inclusion from the University of Winchester. Clare established the Outreach Service in her current role, which supports pupils with SEND and behavioural needs across primary and secondary schools and was rated as a strength of the city’s provision by the local area SEND inspection in 2017. She is also a Specialist Leader of Education specialising in SEND and Behaviour and works for HISP Teaching School Hub as their SEND Lead.

Clare is the Deputy Regional SEND Lead for South East England and South London (SESLON) region.

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Tina Harvey OBE

Tina Harvey has been the Headteacher at Perseid School in Merton for more than 25 years and is the joint lead of the Merton Special Training Association, a provider of specialist training and outreach. Tina has been a teacher for more than 30 years and, for three years until Summer 2018, was also the Executive Head of a local primary school. Tina holds a M.Ed in Childhood Autism from Birmingham University and has a particular interest in leadership at all levels, coaching teachers throughout their leadership journey and the teaching of PSHE.

Tina is the Deputy Regional SEND Lead for South East England and South London (SESLON) region.