Engaging SEND Provision - Digital - Programme

Module 1: Ensure engagement is at the heart of your provision (Thursday 22 April, 2pm to 4.15pm)

2pm The motivation behind engagement and how to align it

• Defining your own and your school's purpose
• How engagement is an expression of motivation
• What are key prompts of performance?
• Assessing what we don't see

Dr Matt Silver, CEO of Pathways Education

2.35pm The complexity of engagement - whole school strategies

• Relationships, behaviour and communication
• Access to education
• Staffing, school ethos and values

Hermann Farrington, Headteacher, The Village School

2.55pm Practical strategies to best serve children with SEND in a world of blended learning 

• Lessons learned from the pandemic: moving forward with blended learning
• Applying effective pedagogy for SEND: face to face and in the virtual classroom
• Resources and tools for supporting online learning for pupils with SEND

Natalie Packer, Education Consultant

3. 35pm The impact of the pandemic and interventions to support recovery

• Relationships: develop the essential skills for all in rebuilding and fostering relationships with other and for learning - the human connection.
• Recovery: support learners who have experienced trauma, lack of human connection, grief, bereavement and isolation with recovery methods for learning and adapting to continued change.
• Renewal: build on the resilience of home learning and face the future with a sense of renewed optimism and hope in supporting learners with SEND. Embrace that home learning has had a positive effect on many and look at developing emotional care and consideration at the heart of school provision.

Nina Jackson, SEND, Mental Health and Wellbeing Consultant

Module 2: Practical strategies for learning needs (Thursday 29 April, 2pm - 4.15pm)

2pm School support: what autistic children and young people say works best for them

• Learning from autistic children and young people's everyday school experiences
• Support: what works and what doesn't
• The importance of acceptance and belonging

Jo Billington, Doctoral Researcher, Centre for Autism, University of Reading

3pm Practical strategies for supporting learners with ADHD

• Busting the myths- what ADHD actually is
• The challenges faced in school settings for children and young people with ADHD
• The 6 key strategies for achieving best outcomes for children and young people with ADHD

Colin Foley, National Director of Training, ADHD Foundation

3.45pm Strategies to support dyslexic students, Amjad Ali, Try This Teaching

Flip the learning pre-record - SEMH: incorporating therapeutic strategies and removing barriers to learning, Jack Gibbs, Head of School, Romans Field School and Dr Jasmine Anilmis, Highly Specialist CAMHS Practitioner/Clinical Psychologist

Module 3: Building observation, best practice, and equipping students for life (Thursday 6 May, 2pm to 4pm)

2pm Practical implementation of the engagement profile 

• Review of the statutory requirements
• Best practice in implementing the statutory requirements
• Effective observation and the engagement profile

Professor Deborah Robinson, Professor of SEND and Inclusion, Derby University, and Nick Sheffield, Head of Curriculum and Assessment, Linden Lodge School

3pm Maximising the impact of education beyond school

• Evaluating the relationship between curriculum and assessment
• Building a community based education offer
• Articulating capability beyond the school

Simon Knight, Joint Headteacher, Frank Wise School

3.25pm Meaningful Mastery Project Based Learning to build sustainable post-19 digital enterprise

• What is Meaningful Mastery Project Based Learning?
• What are the pathways awaiting our students (and their statistics)?
• How can we innovate to carve new pathways?

Dr Matt Silver, CEO of Pathways Education