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A Token ‘Wellbeing Day’ Is Not Enough – Support Your Staff With Realistic And Practical Solutions No more weekend emails, no more triple marking – how one school is helping with teacher workload

“None Of Us Ever Stop Learning – Make Sure Your NQTs Know It” Michelle Haywood argues that experienced teachers should take on more of a role in helping NQTs develop their knowledge and skills around SEND...

What’s The Right Way To Respond To A Child With SEND Who’s Grieving? Sarah Helton looks at how schools can support children with SEND through the difficult process of bereavement

What Teachers Need To Know About Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Anne Gilbert explains what schools can do in response to the relatively unknown, yet common condition of juvenile idiopathic arthritis…

Make Your School Trip Work For Everyone Leading off-site visits can feel like hard work – and more daunting still when the group includes children with SEND...

Fintan O’Regan: Why Are Exclusions On The Rise? Fintan O’Regan asks why, after a period of decline, the number of primary pupils being excluded is starting to rise again…

Close Up On…Shorefields Special School: “We’ll Help Anybody” With several ‘Outstanding’ ratings under its belt, and a demand for places that’s starting to outstrip its capacity, what can mainstream primaries learn from Shorefields special school? Callum Fauser finds out...

“The Future Of SEN Provision In Schools Is Headed In A Worrying Direction” After the gains we’ve made, the idea that funding cuts could sink our SEN provision should fill us with shame

“A Teacher Once Bowled An 8-Year-Old Me A Fast Ball That Knocked Me Out” Three adults with disabilities look back on the teachers they can’t forget – for reasons good or bad…

SEN Can’t Be A Total Mystery To Teachers – Or So You’d Think… We should be concerned when teachers display a lack of basic SEND knowledge, writes Nancy Gedge – but should we actually be surprised...?

Get Your Visual Timetables Right Visual timetables are a helpful tool, but only if they’re used properly, advises Lynn McCann...

Learners Should Never Be Passive Receivers Of Teaching If we want pupils to grow in confidence and achieve more, it’s vital that we personalise their learning, argues Sylvia Edwards...

Make Your School Deaf-Friendly Note – The term ‘deaf’ is here used to refer to all levels and types of hearing loss Deafness is not a learning disability, but because so much learning occurs through listening and seeing, it can present complex challenges to school-aged children and those teaching and supporting them. With more than 45,000 permanently deaf children […]

What music can do for learners with communication difficulties Mary Isherwood explains how music plays a central role in the daily rhythms of school life at Camberwell Park School...

Dealing With Dyspraxia - What To Do When ‘Doing’ Is Difficult Could those outward signs of clumsiness point to dyspraxia, and if so, how should teachers respond? Veronica Bidwell takes a closer look…

What Should Schools do when LA Services Disappear? With local authority services continuing to be scaled back, Professor Sonia Blandford looks at how schools can plug the gap by liaising with external agencies…

What The Bio-Psycho-Social Approach Can Do For Learners With SEMH Difficulties Oliver Kendall explains why schools need to take a multi-pronged approach when supporting pupils with social, emotional and mental health difficulties

Why Test For Failure? Let’s Assess For Success Post-Rochford Review, asks Jackie Ward, will pupils with SEND finally be seen for what they can do, and not just what they can’t?

What Can A Specialist Setting Teach Primaries About SEND Provision? It might be a well-resourced specialist setting, but Westmorland School can still teach mainstream primaries a great deal, as Sal McKeown discovers...

We Must Change How We Support Pupils With A History Of Trauma If we’re to properly support children from traumatic backgrounds when they’re in school, we need to see a major change in our learning culture, argues Nicola Marshall…

How Can Schools Benefit From Occupational Therapy? Could occupational therapy have a useful role to play in your school’s SEN provision? Student therapist Kerri Schubert recalls the impact of her work placement at Topcliffe Primary School, Birmingham...

In Search Of The Male SENCo Male SENCos tend to approach the job differently to their female counterparts, says Dr Mark Pulsford – and if we care about gender equality, we might want to start looking at why…

Rory Bremner On Living With ADHD – “A Lot Of Mind-Wandering Goes On” Impressionist Rory Bremner reflects on being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and how the condition’s proved to be both friend and foe...

Is There Such A Thing As ‘No Excuses’ Inclusion? Can a school that maintains certain expectations, no matter what, still call itself inclusive? Loic Menzies tries to unpack the contradictions…

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Ade Edmondson – “We got hit a lot, with sticks” For actor, musician and comedian Ade Edmondson, surviving education was an achievement in itself...

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