by Ollie Shurville | Jan 25, 2015 | Uncategorised
The new SEND guidelines will have already changed many of the SEND issues that you face in your classroom on a day-to-day basis. One such change will be the more likely inclusion of those with physical disabilities in a mainstream classroom. Physical limitations are...
by Ollie Shurville | Jan 10, 2015 | Uncategorised
Schools have a huge amount of changes to deal with on a yearly, termly and even daily basis. The biggest change this year has been the introduction of the new SEND Code of Practice and the implications of that for the true inclusion into the mainstream classroom of...
by Ollie Shurville | Oct 15, 2014 | Uncategorised
Created as a way to track the progress and learning for children with SEND, P-Scales are a preliminary guide of best-fit to help teachers plan more effectively. Rather than being as linear as National Curriculum Levels, P scales help to assess a child’s learning...
by Ollie Shurville | Oct 9, 2014 | Uncategorised
As if we’re not all baffled enough by the endless string of acronyms in teaching, we now have the perplexing semantic switch from SEN to SEND in the recent Code of Practice (CoP) to contend with. Some teachers have expressed their confusion about why we now...