Preparing Learners with SEND for Adulthood: Supporting Success Conference

This event is a response to feedback from the education workforce following the Preparing for Adulthood (PfA) Review Guide Regional Training delivered in 2023 and will be a celebration of everything schools and colleges are already doing.

Webinar: Positively responding to increasing complexity in our mainstream schools part 2: How to secure a process-driven approach when considering additional provisions in mainstream schools

This webinar builds on our initial exploration of this theme in Positively responding to increasing complexity in our mainstream schools – collaborative learning opportunities to inform strategic and systemic thinking.

Embracing Inclusion: Supporting learners with Down Syndrome and other learning disabilities in the mainstream classroom

In the webinar, Sharon will discuss how to work with families to support the inclusion of learning-disabled pupils, including those with the most complex needs, in a mainstream classroom.

Webinar: Teaching for Mastery in Maths

This webinar will provide an introduction to how a Teaching for Mastery approach can foster learning for all students.

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

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.

Webinar: Their future in our hands – Navigating school to career transitions: A webinar for Primary, Secondary and College Educators Part 2

Webinar: Their future in our hands – Navigating school to career transitions: A webinar for Primary, Secondary and College Educators Part 1

Positive beginnings: Supporting children with SEND at the start of their school journey

This webinar will explore support for children entering mainstream school.  The session will cover early identification of need, processes for positive support and inclusive strategies to ensure that needs are met as children prepare for transition.

How to ensure balance between the role of SENCO and personal wellbeing.

Enhancing SENCO wellbeing by managing workload and leading through influence. Delivered by Jean Gross, Rebecca Gonyora and Erica Wolstenholme

Meeting increasing Social Emotional, Mental Health (SEMH) needs within mainstream settings

In this webinar we will explore the increase in SEMH needs and how we can meet the challenge of assessing needs and providing targeted support within school.

Webinar - SEND and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan: What do schools and colleges need to know?

This webinar will provide an overview of the Department for Education’s Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Improvement plan which was published at the beginning of March.

Talking Head - Professional Development Groups Tim James Director of Inclusion

A Director of Inclusion talks about the benefit to their learning in addition to improved outcomes in their school of being a member of the professional groups.

Talking Head - Teacher Handbook Zoe Nash SENCO

A SENCO talks about the benefits to her school of using the Teacher Handbook.

Webinar - SEND - Legacy of Leadership

In the final session in this series of three, we reflect on SEND at a strategic and executive level, in our sense-making and decision-making.

Webinar: Reflective SEND Practice

In the final session in this series of six, we explore how to be a reflective classroom teacher for SEND.

Webinar: How to develop a curriculum which is ambitious and accessible for all at each age and stage

This webinar recording explores why it is important for all children to have access to an ambitious curriculum and how schools and colleges can ensure that their curriculum is ambitious and accessible.

Webinar: Distributed Leadership of SEND

In the second session in this series of three, we explore deeper the vital role that consistent sense-making and decision-making plays in setting children and young people up for life outside and beyond school.

Webinar: Teaching Children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health Needs

In the fifth session in this series of six, we explores strategies that can be implemented in the classroom to support children who consistently present with disruptive or withdrawn behaviour.

Webinar: Inclusive Classroom Language

In this fourth session of the series, participants explore strategies that can be implemented in the classroom to support children with speech, language and communication needs.

Webinar - SEND: Foundations in Leadership

Aimed at school leaders doing NPQs in our region, this first session of three webinars reflects on sense-making and decision-making as it relates to learners with SEND, either providing or limiting access and opportunities for learning.