Showing posts with label SENCO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SENCO. Show all posts

Saturday, June 16, 2018

SENCO - RTLB Liasion feedback and discussion

17 June 2018

Completed RTLB Liasion feedback and discussion form
Jodie emailed this form to me on 13 June. I worked on it on Wednesday night and shared with Jodie.
I met with Jodie on Friday 15 June to discuss the form and my feedback. I complete the narrative account for a child on Sunday 17 June - see the link to view the form.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YRsSabhrqeQ0HFVnugaOZbqZKWqLlqHivq4kgO_VUzk/edit

RTLB roles do not include undertaking individual kura/school-based work such as:

  • teaching a particular subject or course
  • being a remedial tutor
  • taking responsibility for a special class or unit
  • working as a teacher’s aide or reliever
  • carrying out routine kura/ school duties • providing a counselling, social work or truancy service
  • Testing/assessing students outside of casework.
  • managing crisis/traumatic incidents

Completing this feedback form provided me with an opportunity to reflect on my role as SENCO to date. It also provided an opportunity to revisit the school special needs register and identify what was up to date and I was able to see where I had missed updating what has been put in place.

Interesting to note the form makes it very clear what the RTLB role is not. Pleasing to see that we are using the RTLB service well


Future actions - for me to update the register during week ten after parent interviews and to develop a tracking sheet that can be viewed at a glance to enable children to be tracked across years.

Saturday, May 12, 2018

Professional Development - SENCO workshop





Wednesday 9 May attended a meeting for all SENCOs in the area.
A new website for SENCOs was presented to us.



The learning support network https://www.thelearningsupportnetwork.org/

This network has free access to hub one which provides a forum to discuss practices and share resources as well as providing information about upcoming events and courses.
Then SENCOs from several schools shared their special needs registers with us. This was very helpful and provided an insight into practices at other schools.
Improvements I can make to my SENCO Practise
From this I can see I need to develop a more basic special needs register with less info in it.
Also to develop a long term tracking spread sheet.



Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Minutes of Meetings and communications with staff/support staff



Term Three Week 6
Monday Jodie at school - she let me know that wednesday was the due date for next round of referrals
Discussed Literacy group working with  Senior Children. Jodie to follow up with what is the plan going forward.
Monday touched base with Bryony regarding Referral of Katie
Monday talked with Justin regarding referring Jackson and got this under way
Jo asked regarding referral for Sienna - gave forms to Jo for referral and we discussed which would be best RTLB or CDU. We decided to do both.

Tuesday - talked with Mike regarding getting the form for RTLB signed by Jacksons caregiver Tracey
Tuesday Morning Tea - Met with Angela Hickling and discussed Kouroush and his new programme which he is working on with Mel Target blends pl, cl, gl, bl, fl, sm, sp, sn,

Wednesday 30 August - Meet with Jodie and went through the 3 referrals with her and ranked them in urgency
Gave CDU forms to Jo

Evidence of participation in staff meetings



Participation in Staff meetings
Team meeting minutes

Term Three Week 6
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jG-FDZWHK8R4RCme3u_76apqK098bbK94bFQRAxnr34/edit?ts=59a62291

Monday, August 28, 2017

Key Points -SENCO Powerpoint August 2017

Reading of Powerpoint  - Child Development Service 
 August 2017
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kyK5XAkHFvS24v_8yOav4-FnLja6Xy0ylfa1JwR117Q/edit#slide=id.p18

Key Points
  •  Involve parents Early, gather vital info about child from parents,  complete a parent questionnaire with parents.
  •  Ensure Parents consent to referral and are on the same page as school and are kept in the loop 
  •  Gather all data necessary and examine for child's strengths and areas of need 


N.B. can be long waits as children are pirotised and those most in need identified and seen first 
  • Multidisciplinary approach
  • Different pathways for individual children to ensure individual needs are met