How can we help?
How can we help?
We aim for equality of opportunity and high expectations for all children and young people (CYP), through highly skilled, consistent, motivating and inspiring practice.
We work with children and young people, from 0-25 years old, and their families to promote a range of skills, foster independence and ensure readiness for school and preparation for adulthood.
We provide support for CYP with cognition and learning needs; communication and interaction needs, including autism; social, emotional and mental health needs; sensory and physical/medical needs. We work in partnership with staff in settings to enable all pupils to achieve positive outcomes as they progress through education and prepare for adulthood.
The following services can be purchased from the inclusive education service; support for pupils with social emotional and mental health including
- Direct work with CYP
- Whole school support
- Training on a range of interventions and support strategies
You can also purchase training and bespoke training packages, post 16 support. Please click on the following to make a referral:
https://bso.bradford.gov.uk/Schools/CMSPage.aspx?mid=3518#How
The Graduated Approach
The Code of Practice 2015 introduced the category of SEN Support, replacing School Action and School Action Plus. The Graduated Approach of “Assess, Plan, Do, Review” removes barriers to learning and ensures that effective provision is in place. There is a financial element in each school’s budget to meet the needs of pupils receiving SEN Support.
One of the biggest changes within the SEND reforms has been a shift away from narrow objectives or targets, towards a greater emphasis upon outcomes. The SEND Code of Practice states that “an outcome is the benefit or difference made to an individual as a result of an intervention” (Code of Practice 9.66) and outcomes should describe the next step that the child or young person will take towards a happy, healthy, independent and secure adulthood.
As a service we adhere to the following principles for SEND support:
Quality First Teaching: differentiated and personalised to meet the individual needs of CYP. Teachers should set high expectations for every pupil. They should plan stretching work for pupils whose attainment is significantly above the expected standard and should have an even greater obligation to plan lessons for pupils who have low levels of prior attainment, or come from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Teachers should use appropriate assessment to set targets which are deliberately ambitious. (Teachers’ Standard 5)
SEN Support: Special Educational Provision that goes beyond usual differentiated and personalised teaching and learning approaches and that is additional to, or different from, that made for other children of the same age. Schools and colleges must use their best endeavours to ensure that such provision is made for those who need it. Schools should use The Graduated Approach of “Assess, Plan, Do, Review” to remove barriers to learning and must work with parents. CYP at SEN Support will have regular “Team Around the Family” meetings as part of the “Assess, Plan, Do, Review” cycle. Schools may involve specialists at any point to advise them on effective support and interventions and should implement strategies recommended by specialists and review their effectiveness.
Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs): the majority of CYP with additional needs will have their needs met within SEN Support. A small minority will require a statutory assessment (EHCA). To inform its decision, the local authority will expect to see evidence of the action taken by the school as part of SEN Support, including best endeavours and The Graduated Approach.
Schools may involve specialists at any point to advise them on effective support and interventions and should implement and review the effectiveness of any strategies recommended by the specialists.
School-Based Training
School-Based Training
In addition to the central training we offer, the following courses can be delivered in your school. Please email complete a training request and email it to us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The form can be found on BSO link below:
https://bso.bradford.gov.uk/Schools/CMSPage.aspx?mid=3518#Training
High Incidence Team School-Based Training Packages
All of our training is traded. To purchase school-based training you can either use sessions from your SEMH (SEMH training only) or buy stand-alone training. NB the costing structure below also takes into account the preparation time for your course.
The costing structure is as follows:
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Bespoke training
Prices include preparation and design of the course to suit your establishments requirements
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Duration of course
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No of Sessions from package
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Charges for
up to 20 people
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Charges for
21 to 30 people
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Twilight (up to 2 hours)
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2
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£300
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£300
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Half Day (up to 3 hours)
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3
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£425
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£475
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Full Day (up to 6 hours)
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4
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£650
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£800
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Prices below are for the set course in the below list:
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Duration of course
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No of Sessions from package
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Charges for
up to 20 people
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Charges for
21 to 30 people
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Twilight (up to 2 hours)
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1
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£200
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£200
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Half Day (up to 3 hours)
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2
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£325
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£395
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Full Day (up to 6 hours)
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3
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£550
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£700
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SEMH
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No. of Sessions from the package
(SEMH only)
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Standalone
Price
Up to 20
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Standalone
Price
21+
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Lego based therapy
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1
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£200
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£200
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Managing Low Level Behaviour
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2
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£325
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£395
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De-escalation strategies when pupils go into crisis
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2
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£325
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£395
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How to create an SEMH friendly environment in your setting; including positive communication
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2
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£325
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£395
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Using the ‘zones of regulation’ to support understanding of a range of emotions
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2
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£325
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£395
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Monster magic; a small group approach for SEMH
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2
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£325
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£395
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Using additional adults effectively with SEMH pupils
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2
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£325
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£395
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How to use small group work with SEMH issues; friendships/social skills/managing emotions
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2
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£325
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£395
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How to use ‘Time to talk’ and ‘Nurturing talk’ speech & language group work
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2
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£325
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£395
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How to work with C/YP with trauma/attachment issues
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2
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£325
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£395
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How to support C/YP with anger management difficulties
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2
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£325
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£395
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SEMH in the early years setting
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2
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£325
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£395
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How to use the Boxall Assessment to measure developments in social skills
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2
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£325
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£395
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The nurturing school; how to incorporate the six principles of nurture into your setting
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2
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£325
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£395
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Positive break and lunchtimes.
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3
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£550
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£700
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How to understand the law around use of force and create a risk assessment for a young person
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3
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£550
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£700
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Provision for SEMH using the range guidance from QFT to range 4 in your setting
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3
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£550
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£700
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How to use the ENGAGE tool as a framework to support developing mental health issues with C/YP
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3
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£550
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£700
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Cognition and Learning
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Standalone
Price
Up to 20
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Standalone
Price
21+
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Dyslexia Awareness (1 twilight 1.30 hours)
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£200
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£200
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Inclusive Classrooms (2 twilights, each 1.15 hours)
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£325
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£395
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Dyslexia Friendly Classrooms (2 x twilights, each 1.30 hours)
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£325
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£395
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Alphabet Arc Workshop (1 half day – 2.5 hours)
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£325
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£395
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Precision Teaching Workshop (1 half day – 2.5 hours)
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£325
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£395
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Dyslexia Portfolio Workshop (1 half day – 2.5 hours)
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£325
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£395
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20-20 reading (2 half days sessions plus a free follow up session) for up to 8 TAs
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£550
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£700
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Autism
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Standalone
Price
Up to 20
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Standalone
Price
21+
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Introduction to Autism- Beginners (twilight 1 ½ hours) for school based staff
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£200
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£200
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Autism: Lego Based Therapy (1 ½ hours) for all school based staff
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£200
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£200
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Classroom strategies for autism - provision at Range 3 and 4 (Early Years) (full day)
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£550
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£700
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Supporting children with autism at Range 3 and 4 for support staff (Primary) (1/2 day)
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£325
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£395
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Autism: Assessment and delivery of well-being and engagement with learning (full day)
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£550
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£700
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Classroom strategies for autism - provision at Range 3 and 4 (Primary) (full day)
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£550
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£700
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Classroom strategies for autism - provision at Range 3 and 4 for support staff (Early Years) (full day)
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£550
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£700
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Pricing for up to 20 staff
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Bespoke
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Up to 2hrs
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½ Day
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Full Day
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. Possible options include:
- Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum
- Self-Care and Independence for CYP with autism
- Autism: Emotional Regulation Strategies
- Autism :Sensory Difference
- Working with the Autism Progression Framework
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£300
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£425
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£600
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Early Years
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Standalone
Price
Up to 20
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Standalone
Price
21+
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Inclusive Approaches in the Early Years:
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- Supporting Overall Language Development (2 hours)
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£200
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£200
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- Listening and Attention Skills (2 hours)
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£200
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£200
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- Transitions from Home to Nursery/School and Nursery to School (2 hours)
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£200
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£200
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- Using Visual Support - Transitions within the Nursery/School Day (2 hours)
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£200
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£200
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- Using the Intensive Interaction Approach to Develop Overall Communication Skills (2 hours)
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£200
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£200
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- Social and Developmental Aspects of Play including Adult- Child Interaction (2 hours)
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£200
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£200
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- Personalising Learning (Observation and Supporting Children with Additional Educational Support Needs and SEND) (half-day)
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£325
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£395
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- Movement Play (2 hours)
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£200
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£200
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- Sensory Play (2 hours)
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£200
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£200
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- Behaviour is Communication – Positive Approaches to Changing and Shaping Behaviour (2 hours)
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£200
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£200
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Descriptions of the courses:
Managing Low Level Behaviour
Guidance to Ofsted Inspectors includes a focus on this issue in both primary and secondary settings. It contributes to staff and student stress in the work place and adversely affects progress and results.
This short course explores the underlying reasons for this behaviour and provides practical strategies for staff to reduce its impact on progress, learning and wellbeing.
It links strategies to Bradford’s Range Guidance 1 - 3 for SEMH (replacement of school action and school action plus for BESD) enabling schools to demonstrate appropriate provision using the resources available to the school.
2 hour course delivered by a Specialist Teacher.
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Assessment and delivery of well-being and engagement with learning (KS2-4)
This course will provide a practical approach to assessing children and young people’s skills to foster well-being, positive mental health and engagement.
Schools will learn to develop robust systems to monitor emotional development and well-being across all age ranges as well as developing practical tools for measuring well-being and engagement.
The course will include an insight into the high incidence of poor mental health in children and young people with autism.
full day course delivered by a Specialist Teacher and a Specialist Practitioner.
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Lego Based Therapy
A structured intervention to develop the social and interaction skills of children and young people with autism in mainstream settings.
Staff will learn what Lego-based Therapy is and how to implement and differentiate Lego-based Therapy.
The course will include practical group activities; guidance on setting up Lego based Therapy groups and highlights the benefits for children and young people with autism.
3 hour course delivered by a Specialist Practitioner.
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Introduction to Autism- Beginners (KS1- 4)
An introduction to autism for mainstream school staff available as a twilight.
Staff will have a basic understanding of autism and how it impacts learning and living.
The course will include an introduction to the main areas of difference in autism and some strategies and approaches suitable for mainstream settings in all key stages 1-4.
1.5 hour course delivered by a Specialist Teacher.
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Supporting children with autism at Range 3 and 4 (TA’s)
Comprehensive autism training and insight for school staff who already have a basic knowledge and experience of autism.
Staff will develop their existing knowledge of autism and understand how to best meet the needs of a range of children with a diagnosis of autism in a mainstream setting.
The course will include the 4 areas of difference, offer strategies and approaches and opportunities to plan the implementation of these strategies in key stages 1 and 2.
half-day course delivered by 2 Specialist Practitioners.
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Classroom Strategies for children with autism at Range 3 and 4 (EY’s or EY's and TA's)
Comprehensive autism training and insight for school staff who already have a basic knowledge and experience of autism.
Staff will develop their existing knowledge of autism and gain an understanding how to meet the needs of a range of children with a diagnosis of autism in a mainstream setting in EYFS
The course will include the key areas of difference, offer strategies and approaches and opportunities to plan the implementation of these strategies.
full-day course delivered by 2 Specialist Practitioners.
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20:20 Reading Intervention
20 – 20 reading is evidence based, practical, holistic and successful intervention, which draws on Catch Up Literacy, Wave 3 Literacy and Reading Recovery principles.
This is a practical course which includes demonstrations and hands-on activities over two training sessions of 2 hours each. Follow up email and telephone support will also be provided. TAs and SENDCOs will develop the skills to assess children’s reading skills and then plan and deliver, 1:1 sessions for struggling readers. It is suitable for children in the primary phase, who are reading at least 6 months below their chronological age, or students with SEND in the secondary phase
Up to 10 teaching assistants (plus the SENCO) can be trained together in (your) school. The intervention is proven to be more successful in schools where the SENCO or another Teacher attends the training and monitors the intervention in school. The host school could offer places to other schools within their own Mat or locality to make the numbers up to 10, making the cost £49.10 per delegate.
The host school will need access to the New Salford Sentence Reading Test and a range of children’s reading books.
two training sessions of 2 hours each delivered by a Specialist Practitioner.
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Inclusive Classroom Training
The Inclusive Classroom training is delivered over 2 x 90 minute sessions. Course Participants will receive an inclusive classroom toolkit to support the planning and delivery of provision for children with SLCN, EAL, SpLD and MLD. The course aims are as follows.
Session 1
- Identification of speech, language and communication needs, specific learning difficulties, children with English as an additional language and children with moderate learning difficulties
- How these difficulties present in the classroom and where they overlap
- Responsibilities of the class teacher as described in the Code of Practice for SEN 2014
Session 2
- To know how to meet these needs in the classroom
- To be able to use a range of inclusive teaching strategies in the classroom
two 90 minute sessions delivered by a Specialist Teacher.
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Dyslexia Awareness
This training is a precursor to our “Dyslexia Friendly Classrooms—Supporting Children with Literacy Difficulties in the Classroom” but can also be delivered as a stand-alone session.
It is designed to be delivered to teachers and support staff in staff meetings but it could also form part of school training days. This training is relevant to staff in both primary and secondary settings.
The session will provide participants with:
- An understanding of the processes involved in reading and writing.
- An understanding of the areas of difficulty linked to dyslexia.
- An understanding of how difficulties impact on literacy and general learning.
- The ability to use checklists to identify profiles.
- Suggestions of how to support particular difficulties in the classroom.
Participants will receive a checklist which allows them to begin to identify pupils with dyslexic type difficulties and appropriate next steps to support their learning.
90 minute session delivered by a Specialist Teacher.
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Dyslexia Friendly Classroom
This training is designed to be delivered over two consecutive staff meetings but it could also form part of school training days.
This training does not cover what dyslexia is, but is considered a follow up to our “Dyslexia Awareness” training. However, this can also be delivered as stand-alone training if participants already have an understanding of dyslexia.
The sessions are interactive and include practical activities and opportunities for discussion.
The sessions will provide participants with:
- Practical ideas and strategies to support pupils with literacy difficulties in the classroom.
- A toolkit and disc of resources and templates including task plan templates, supported writing frame templates (including Clicker templates), subject specific writing frames, word mats, word maps, progression in spelling lists, precision teaching tools, templates for barrier games and memory games, step-by-step guides for key maths operations.
- Using ICT to support pupils with Dyslexia, includes information about iPad apps.
two 90 minute session delivered by a Specialist Teacher.
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Monster Magic
This is a two hour course designed to show you how to deliver this pack effectively.
The pack is designed to create a nurturing hour in the curriculum which meets developmental needs and increases understanding of how to feel safe and be safe.
The programme allows pupils to explore emotions safely and understand how to manage them effectively. By the end of the journey, pupils should be able to manage themselves and have a clearer understanding of the self-regulation strategies they can use to manage potential conflict.
This CD pack contains 40 hour long sessions along with work sheets. Which you will receive along with the training.
You would however need to purchase the monster puppet separately from ‘The Puppet Company’.
Tutor: Anna Robinson
max of 20 staff
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Low Incidence
Manual Handling training
Do you have children who need physical, hands- on assistance to access school? If so you need to be trained to do this safely for both the pupil and staff involved.
This course will give staff a basic training in manual handling and will also include problem solving support and help to draw up a written manual handling plan for individual pupils. This is a legal requirement for all schools who need to physically move children.
This course will cover:
- Back awareness
- Principles and practice of safe lifting/ moving and handling
- Using equipment safely e.g. hoists
- Writing an individual manual handling plan
Tutor: Deborah Craig or Ann Gabriel
Training will be tailor-made to your school by the Physical and Medical Team
£420 up to 6 members of staff for a half day (3 hours). £65 for each extra member of staff.
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Clicker 7
Many children benefit from using Clicker 7 software on the computer as an alternative to handwriting. This practical course will give an overview of the popular assistive technology software Clicker 7 and demonstrate how it can be incorporated into lessons. Although this course is based on Clicker 7, please contact us if you would like support with earlier versions of Clicker or Clicker IPad apps.
This course will cover:
- An introduction to Clicker 7 and the functions available
- Making word banks and grids from scratch to support learners
- Editing and downloading existing grids
- The full range of Clicker activities including mind mapping and voice recording.
Three hour session delivered by one Specialist Teacher - 10-14 staff £540.
Three hour session delivered by two Specialist Teachers - 15-28 staff £1,080.
2 star package (Standard)
1 star package