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Wingate Primary School

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Home / SEND / SEN Specialist Expertise

SEN Specialist Expertise

SENCO and SEN Staff

Our SENCO is Miss Emma Phillipson.

More details of the SENCO’s role can be found in the SEN Policy which you can find in the School Policies section of our website.

Other staff with specialist expertise:

Listening Matters Listeners are Mrs Julie Byatt, Mrs Rachel Kerton, Miss Gemma Threadkell, Miss Amanda Wigham and Mrs Lynn Carr.

Nurture Group –  Mrs Barbara Weightman, Miss Gemma Threadkell, Mrs Lynn Carr, Mrs Helen Burke

Behaviour Support – Getting Along – all support staff

Bereavement Support Leaders are Mrs Lynn Carr and Miss Sonia Cook

School Counsellors are Mrs Jackie Dobson and Mrs Carol Gash

Pastoral Manager – Annie Docherty

External Specialists and Other Bodies

The school enjoys good working relationships with a wide range of people who provide services to children with SEND and their families.

The external specialists may:

  • Act in an advisory capacity
  • Extend expertise of school staff
  • Provide additional assessment
  • Support a child directly
  • Suggest statutory assessment is advisable
  • Consult with all parties involved with the child

These include:

  • Durham County Council Local Offer
  • Durham SEND Information,  Advice and Support Service
  • School Nurse
  • Speech and Language Therapy
  • Behaviour Support
  • CAMHS
  • One Point
  • Educational Psychology Service
  • Learning Difficulties and Disabilities Support Service
  • Occupational Therapy
  • EWEL
  • Crisis Response
  • Cognition and Learning
  • Autism & Social Communication Team

How We Secure Specialist Expertise

Our Additional Needs Budget is used to support children and young people with SEN. We also contribute towards our Community of Learning budget to increase the capacity to support our most vulnerable children.

This is used to support children and young people with SEND by:

Our notional budget for SEND has been allocated to provide adults who can undertake specific 1:1 and small group support in areas such as intensive interventions (reading; phonics), improving social and communication skills (Getting Along; LM), and other additional academic or pastoral support.

This support always takes place with the full involvement of both children and parents.

Elements of this funding is also used for the provision of appropriate resources which children with additional learning needs may find beneficial, and training which supports individual or all staff.

Staff have recently taken part in Talk of the Primary School (supporting Speech, Language and Communication needs) and Attachment training to support vulnerable children with specific difficulties.

If a child has complex special educational needs, we could also receive additional funding from the Local Authority to meet the agreed outcomes

SEN Information Report

  • Introduction
  • Our SEN Provision
    • The kinds of SEN that are provided for:
    • Our approach to teaching children & young people with SEN
    • How we adapt the curriculum and learning environment for children & young people with SEN
    • How we identify, assess and review children with special educational needs
    • How children with SEN engage in all activities?
    • How we evaluate the effectiveness of SEN Provision
  • Support for Emotional & Social Development
  • Looked After Children with SEND
  • SEN Transition
  • SEN Specialist Expertise
  • Consulting with our SEN Pupils, Parents & Carers
  • Compliments, Complaints and Feedback
  • Key Policies
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Church Street (Infant Site)

Wingate Primary School

Church Street

Wingate

Co Durham

TS28 5AQ

T: 01429 836 843

E: wingateprimaryschool@durhamlearning.net

Moor Lane (Junior Site)

Wingate Primary School

Moor Lane

Wingate

Co Durham

TS28 5BA

T: 01429 836 843

E: wingateprimaryschool@durhamlearning.net

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