A guide to
SEN support at the Federation of Spixworth Schools
Welcome to our SEND page which is part of the Norfolk Local Offer for learners with Special Education Needs (SEN). You can view the Norfolk Local Offer here. The Local Offer website can help you find information on support in education, find a support network and find guidance amongst many other things!
I am your SENDCO – Mrs Heallen Payne
I am also Head of School for Woodland View Junior School
I work with pupils, parents/carers, staff and outside agencies to support pupils who need help with communication and interaction; cognition and learning; social, emotional and mental health; sensory and/or physical needs.
Our School Information Report is updated annually and describes our approach to supporting learners with additional needs. The Woodland View Information Report has been produced by all members of the school community including school staff, pupils, parents/carers, and governors. Our Information Report complies with Section 69 of the Children and Families Act 2014. We welcome any feedback on this document.
All governing bodies of maintained schools and maintained nursery schools have a legal duty to publish information on their website about the implementation of the governing body’s policy for pupils with SEN. This information is updated annually:
Who are the best people to talk to about my child’s difficulties with learning, medical or special educational needs?
The class teacher
The SENDCO – Heallen Payne
The Head of School:
Spixworth Infants – Miss Owen
Woodland View – Heallen Payne
Governor – Martyne Ellison
Executive Headteacher – Ms Jordan
How will the school work in partnership with me and communicate with me?
Progress Evenings with teachers
Meetings / Drop-ins with SENDCO
EHCP Annual review meetings with SENDCO
Email / text
Website / Newsletters
Annual Reports
Transition Meetings
We continue to work closely with our cluster schools and share knowledge and resources. You can find out more about how we do this in our Sprowston Cluster SEND Policy.
We have been working hard to create a range of spaces within our school that can be used flexibly to support the children in our care.
Please visit the pastoral area of our site to find out more details about how we support social, emotional and mental health.
We offer a wide range of interventions to support learners across the curriculum, some examples are listed below:
Communication and interaction:
- Lego Therapy
- Structured Play
- Autism Bucket Time
- Talk Boost
- We follow any Speech and Language Therapist recommendations
Cognition and Learning:
- Maths Seeds
- Nessy
- Numicon Breaking Barriers
- Numicon Big Ideas
- Plus One or Power of 2
- Word Wasp or Word Hornet or Toe by Toe
- Little Wandle SEND Program
- Little Wandle Rapid Catch Up,
Social Emotional and Mental Health:
- Pastoral Google Classroom
- ELSA (Emotional Literacy Support)
- Drawing and Talking Therapy
Physical and Sensory Needs:
- Sensory Circuits
- ATT (Access Through Technology),
- We follow any Occupational Therapist recommendations
We are also able to access external support from specialist services and we take part in Local Authority Core Consultations. Staff are keen to keep skills updated and regular training is undertaken.
We are very excited to have started our two-year journey to achieving the Norfolk Dyslexia Friendly School Quality Mark Award. We are doing this because we want to support all our learners to be the best that they can be. To do this we have partnered with the Norfolk Dyslexia Outreach Service.
The Just One Norfolk site has a huge amount of resources to support you in supporting your young person from birth to older children and teens. The site can be translated into many languages and has accessibility features. We often use the emotional health and school life resources.
School and families can access speech and language support from Norfolk and Waveney Children’s Speech and Language Therapy (SaLT) Service.
Norfolk SENDIASS is a service that provides free and impartial information, advice and support about special education needs and disabilities. You can view the site here. They produce a monthly newsletter that you can subscribe to.
Norfolk has a wonderful suite of Parent/Carer Padlet giving access to a whole range of information:
Information to Share with Parents/Carers
Autism Padlet – Parent/Carer Information
Sleep Padlet – Parent/Carer Information
You may find the following policies and information useful to refer to:
The Norfolk SEND Partnership produce a monthly newsletter for parents which can be downloaded on their website www.norfolksendpartnershipiass.org.uk/news/newsletters/
The needs of all of our learners are important to us, we really do CARE:
