Ropery Walk Primary School

Seaham, County Durham SR7 7JZ

Ropery Walk School
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Home / SEND / SEN Specialist Expertise

SEN Specialist Expertise

SENCO and SEN Staff

Our SENCO is Maria Devlin M.A., NASENCO and can be contacted by email: m.devlin102@durhamlearning.net.

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.

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 SEND Information,  Advice and Support Service
  • Behaviour Support Services
  • Autistic Spectrum Support Team
  • School Educational Psychologist
  • Durham Movement Difficulties Service
  • East Durham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
  • Educational Social Workers
  • Occupational Therapy Service for Children
  • Place 2 Be Counselling Service
  • Seaham One Point Hub
  • Speech and Language Therapy
  • The Service for Hearing Impaired
  • The Service for the Visually Impaired
  • Sunderland Royal Hospital Paediatrics

How We Secure Specialist Expertise

Our Additional Needs Budget is used to support children and young people with SEN. At Ropery Walk Primary School, our notional SEN budget is used to support children and young people with SEND by:

  • providing additional resources
  • providing additional support staff to allow for focused small group activities
  • using outside agencies/assessments

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

A Costed Provision Map will be developed in liaison with the child, young person, parent or carer. An example of a costed provision map can be found here:

In this section

  • 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 & Feedback
  • Key Policies

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Seaham

County Durham

SR7 7JZ

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