Further resources
Dimensions Tool
Dimensions - Home (covwarkpt.nhs.uk)
Coventry guidance for SENCos: My Support Plans
SEN Inclusion Fund (EYFS SEND) relevant documentation
- SENIF provider funding
- SENIF monitoring and continuation
- SENIF application
- SENIF parent/carer consent form
Coventry Support Services and training links
Condition-specific training – Coventry City Council
SENCO NPQ
Special educational needs co-ordinator's national professional qualification - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
NASEN
- About nasen | Nasen
- The SEND Code of practice
- NASEN: 3 recorded sessions for leaders in SEND
- Nasen Teacher handbook
- Inclusion Pledge Poster
- Assistive Technology | Nasen
Whole School SEND
SENsible SENCO
Join Thousands of Members Benefiting from SENsible SENCO
Chiltern Teaching School Hub
Creative Education
Range of courses with a SEND focus to purchase at a reasonable cost
Special Needs Jungle
Schoot
Schoot is a subscription based, online platform, designed to inspire successful educators through on-demand, high-quality training and opportunities for collaboration with other primary, special and secondary schools: Training Catalogue
Beacon School Support: Behaviour Support for Schools, Teachers and Families (beaconschoolsupport.co.uk)
- Free behaviour resources (beaconschoolsupport.co.uk)
- SEND Behaviour Handbook (beaconschoolsupport.co.uk)- need to register with email address and this handbook is sent for free via email
- Bitesize podcasts covering a range of content focused on behaviour- created by Beacon: School Behaviour Secrets with Simon Currigan and Emma Shackleton on Apple Podcasts
Positive Young Minds
A place for teachers, SENCOs, parents and children to find support with inclusion, SEND, wellbeing and mental health: SENCO Resources - Positive Young Minds
10 characteristics of effective SEND provision:
High Speed Training
- CPD Courses For Teachers | Online Accredited Training (highspeedtraining.co.uk)- range of course options at a reasonable cost
- 10 minute read: How to Support SEN in the Classroom | Teaching Strategies (highspeedtraining.co.uk)
Amazing Things Project
Short videos to share with children to help understand different needs:-
- Amazing things happen: Amazing Things Happen! (youtube.com)
- Autism: Amazing Kids - Autistic Spectrum Condition (Better audio levels) (youtube.com)
- Downs Syndrome:Chloe explains Down's syndrome (youtube.com)
- ADHD: what is ADHD? (youtube.com)
- Why Autism is a difference...not a Deficit: Why Autism is a Difference, not a Deficit (youtube.com)
- See Dyslexia Differently: Amazing Things Project » See Dyslexia Differently (amazingthingshappen.tv)
Transition
- 17 min video
- CCT video Louisa McGivney: 14 mins
- Moving Up! The Transition to Secondary School: Anna Freud Foundation
- Transitions: The Journey from Primary to Secondary School with Little Green Pig in Burgess Hill
- Whole School SEND: Supporting successful transitions from Primary to Secondary Schools: 90 mins webinar