Having a SEND lead in situ enables the Trust
to support all the SENDCOs through training and support, so they are able to ensure all of the pupils in their school have the right access to appropriate provision and resources. T e steps the Trust have put in place with a
focus on SEND and support for teachers and pupils has come at a crucial point in education where, coming out of COVID, there is greater levels of need being identifi ed, including speech and language issues and a growing proportion of children presenting with social, emotional and mental health diffi culties. In a bid to support schools further with this,
the Trust has appointed a speech and language therapist, Amy Whenman, to work across all the schools. Amy was already working at the Trust’s Newton Road School where a need for specialist speech and language support for the children had been identifi ed. Post-lockdown, speech and language became a huge issue for some children coming into reception and it was vitally important that those needs were identifi ed as quickly as possible to ensure early support could be put in place.
Furthermore, the Trust has provided additional funding for specifi c
in-school SEND provision over the past 18 months for all schools. At Newton Road, this allowed for a small nurture provision to be set up, with a focus on helping children with social, emotional and mental health needs, specifi cally, with their self-regulation. In response, school staff have dedicated themselves to support- ing pupils with a range of interventions and undergone signifi cant amounts of training, including attachment theory and trauma and mental health training to better equip themselves with the skills to support all of the children. The world is a scary place and there is a whole heap of unknowns. The pressures are real; our young people are less and less mentally healthy. Recent events have not helped… so, as educators, we must have the courage to fully focus on letting the young people in our schools, whatever their age, be allowed to be truly seen. Because, as Brene says: ‘We should never underestimate the benefi t
of a child having a place to belong – even one – where they can take off their armour. It can and often does change the trajectory of their life’.
Nene Education Trust is a multi-academy trust comprising Newton Road School in Rushden, Windmill Primary in Raunds, Stanwick Primary, Raunds Park Infants, St. Peter’s CE Junior, Woodford CE Primary, Redwell Primary in Wellingborough and Manor School in Raunds. -
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