Somerset SEND Network groups

Overview

Somerset SEND Network receive 3 newsletters per year, with service updates.  2024/25 newsletters are due to be published 5 December, 24 April and 10 July.

Termly sessions take place 3 times a year face to face for SENCO s to identify CPD and support needs, build networks and provide access to support through discussion, and CPD .

Somerset SEND Network Groups Flyer 2024/25

sen.se working in partnership with Somerset Inclusion Team

PDF, 1.66 MB

Audience

This is a professional group for SENCOs.

Six groups run across Somerset. See flyer for more information and dates.

Each group is run by a SEND Network lead:

• Frome: Candida Coe (Diggy) ccoe@critchillschool.com
• Street: Carly Pollock cpollock@themendipschool.com
• Yeovil: Sam Ensor sensor@fiveways.school
• Crewkerne & Chard: Kerry Lewis klewis@fairmeadschool.com
• Taunton: Simon Roberts SRoberts@selworthy.oak.education
• Sedgemoor & West Somerset: Kerry Russell kerry.russell@poldenbower.org.uk

Booking onto a session

Sessions are run face to face.

Invites are sent out to SENCOs from the SEND Network lead. Please contact the named person for the Network group you are planning to attend so that they can ensure appropriate sized rooms and refreshments.

SENCOs can attend whichever group is more convenient (each group will deliver the same training and information sharing).

Resources

To revisit resources shared during SEND Network Groups, please see below.

Somerset Graduated Response Tools (SGRTs) for Early Identification of Need and recording of support/ interventions

Using templates that sit alongside the SGRTs in order document the graduated response at a universal and SEN Support level. Sharing good practice, ideas and gathering thoughts around how to further embed the SGRT in Somerset schools.

PPTX, 8.87 MB

Regulate, Relate, Reason. The Window of Tolerance – Understanding trauma and supporting self-regulation.

Reminders of universal classroom strategies to build on the theory of regulation. Including a refresher of the Peer Problem Solving process.

PPTX, 14.0 MB

Dr Kate McCann, Community Paediatrician, talks about genetics and why this is relevant for schools in the video below.

Suzy Reed Occupational Therapist, Liz Jeatt Speech and Language Therapist and Simon Hall Music Therapist, talk about integrating therapeutic strategies into the classroom in the video below.