Further Information
Strategies to support/develop communication and literacy (including speech and language programmes)
- Read Write Inc. programme
- Writing without Tears programme
- Talking mats
- Aided language boards
- Colourful semantics
- Jolly phonics
- Derbyshire language scheme
- Blank’s level of questioning
- Objects of reference
- Communication Key Rings
- Comic Strip Conversations
Strategies to support behaviour management
- School employed Clinical Psychologist in the Drumbeat Therapy Team
- All staff trained in Team Teach de-escalation and positive handling
- Team Teach employers tutors in school
- Behaviour Support Plans (BSP)
- Stressbusters
- Legotherapy
- Sensory circuits
- Social stories
- Parallel curriculum
Strategies to support/develop numeracy
- Specialist Maths teaching
- Mathletics
Social skills programmes
- Personalised Plans (PPs)
- Legotherapy
- Superflex and social thinking curriculum
- Girls group and boys group
Strategies to enhance self-esteem/promote emotional wellbeing
- Young Lewisham Project
- Drama workshops
- School football teams
- Bike club
- Residential school journeys
- Clinical Psychologist
- Yoga sessions
- Horse riding, swimming, etc
Access to a supportive environment - IT facilities/equipment/resources (inc. preparation)
- Interactive whiteboards in every classroom
- Pupil access to laptops and iPads
- Music and media suite (including iMacs)
- Soft play room
- Sensory rooms
- Interactive sensory room
- Gym, including running machine, rowing machine, cross-trainer
- Dance area
- Library (including computers and iPads)
- Training room and parents room
Support/supervision at unstructured times of the day including personal care
- A range of lunchtime activities / clubs offered
- Trained staff to supervise break/lunchtimes
- Extended Services offering clubs during holiday periods
- Toilet training in partnership with families and school nurse
- Disabled access toilets and showers
- Lift access
Strategies/programmes to support Occupational Therapy
- Access to specialist equipment to support OT needs e.g. weighted jackets, specialist cutlery, sensory toys etc.
- Sensory Circuits
- Sensory Diets
- Sensory Profiling
Access to medical interventions
- Visiting school nurse
- Visiting consultant paediatrician
- Personal Care Plans
- Staff trained in relevant conditions and emergency medication e.g. asthma, epilepsy, allergic reactions, sickle cell etc
- Trained First Aiders
- Qualified Paediatric First Aiders
Planning and assessment
- Drumbeat Assessment & Data Framework
- Drumbeat Purple Pathways marking & feedback policy and framework
- SOLAR assessment system
- EYFS Early Excellence Baseline Assessment (EExBA)
- EYFS Curriculum
- Drumbeat Primary Curriculum
- Drumbeat Secondary Curriculum
- Drumbeat 6th Form Curriculum
- Annual Reviews of EHCP
- Personalised Plans
- Personal Education Plans (LAC)
- Behaviour Support Plans (BSPs)
Engagement with parents/carers
- Family forums
- Parent workshops
- Home school book
- Newsletters
- Termly Parents Evenings
- 3 Parent Governors
- Coffee Mornings
- Class assemblies and school productions
- Annual Review process
- Text messaging service
Liaison/Communication with External Professionals
- Paediatricians at Kaleidoscope
- School nursing team
- Educational Psychologist
- CAMHS
- Lewisham Social Care Children with Disabilities Team
- Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust Speech and Language Therapy
- MAPP
Arrangements for specialist expertise in school
- Several staff with specialist postgraduate qualifications in Autism to Masters level
- In house Team Teach Employers Tutors
- In house Autism Education Trust (AET) Regional Hub Tutor
- Highly Qualified Therapy Team employed by the school including; Clinical Psychologist and Speech and Language Therapist
Arrangements for specialist expertise from outside school
- Drumming Tutor
- Drama Workshops (Mousetrap)
- Sports Coaches (Millwall FC)
Monitoring and evaluating the impact of the 'additional and different' arrangements - on progress and outcomes for pupils with SEN
- Achievement data analysis
- Personalised Plan achievement review
- Provision mapping and intervention audit
- Pupil Premium analysis and report
- Behaviour monitoring and analysis