Governors' Area

SEND

What is SEND?

SEND is Special Educational Needs and Disability. A child with SEND is understood to have either a learning difficulty or a disability and the child requires special educational provision which is additional to and different from that generally made for other children of the same age within a mainstream school.

Please see below our SEND Policy, Information Report & Newsletter:

SEND Policy

SEN Information Report

Summer 2023 SEND Newsletter

Provision Overview

Remote Learning for Pupils with Special Educational Needs

Mrs Humphreys is our SENDCO and Designated Safeguarding Lead. To contact the SEND Team please email SENCO@bw.keystonemat.org.

The Working Together Team is a National Autistic Society Advanced Status Accredited Service. They advocate best practice and provide specialist support to empower mainstream settings to ensure autistic children & young people thrive through collaborative working with families and professionals.  Click on this link for further information: WTT Information Flyer. Details of their Summer Term training workshops can be found here: WTT Summer Term Training

Lincolnshire Parent Carer Forum are offering free workshops if you are a parent, grandparent, carer, relative or friend of a child/adult
with special needs or a disability. Click on these links for further details: 
LPCF Week of SEND 2023  Juggling the Joys of Parenting. The latest news from LPCF can be found here: LPCF Latest News

Click on the images below for further support,  reading and resources:

                                           

Maintaining Positive Behaviour in the Home

Regulation cards for home

Resources:

Sensory Processing

Coping with COVID - Isolation Booklet

Take 5 - Breathing exercises for children

Childline - Calm Zone

Parents'Toolkit - SEND  

CAMHS Resources

Healthy Minds Lincolnshire - Colour Breathing

SEND Weblinks for home learning

Pandemics and the Coronavirus - Social Story

Alphabet Arc

Autism Self-Isolation Guidance for Parents

Resources to support children with Dyslexia and literacy difficulties:

Supporting Literacy parent sheet Jan 2022

Practising Spellings at Home booklet

Paired Reading Jan 2022

Click on the Calibre Audio logo for the free audiobook site: