Why mixed attainment teaching can benefit children and improve social justice
NEW POST: Should schools use streaming or setting? Views vary but for expert educator, Jules Daulby, it’s pretty clear cut, as she explains in today’s post on SNJ
Category: Teaching
DfE Research: Mainstream Teaching Assistant cuts negatively impacting SEND pupils
Amy Skipp with Rob Webster, Associate Professor in the Centre for Inclusive Education, UCL Institute of Education At the start of this academic year ASK Research were commissioned by DfE …
“Forget the Health and Care and just call them Education Plans”: SENCOs’ perspectives on EHCPs
New research from the Centre for Research in Autism and Education has explored what SENCOs think about Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans, The full research article by Laura Crane, Deputy …
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How do you help a disadvantaged child build confidence and find success? [Conference]
Aside from having a special educational need or disability, one of the biggest barriers to success at school is your family living in poverty or being otherwise disadvantaged. Children and young …
The SEND Superheroes ready to spruce up your school’s provision
I started Special Needs Jungle with the intention of spreading knowledge to parents about how to get themselves organised and prepared for their child’s statutory assessment application. I even wrote …
Testing for children with SEND: The Rochford Review
The final report of The Rochford Review of statutory assessment arrangements for pupils working below the standard of national curriculum tests was published earlier in the week. As I’ve been busy …
What parents wish teachers knew about their special needs child
Teaching children with autism is one of the biggest worries faced by many teachers and even Special Needs Coordinators (SENCos) as they feel they have not had sufficient training in …
How a school’s Nurture programme is supporting students from ‘catch-up’ into ‘heads-up’
I recently met Garry Freeman, Director of Inclusion and SENCo of Guiseley School in Leeds at a Westminster Briefing I was part of, giving the parents’ view for partnership working. …
