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As an inclusive school, we work hard to ensure we adhere to The Equality Act and the SEND Regulations. These underpin our policies and procedures.

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Legislation is available in different versions:

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The Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014

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These Regulations supplement the procedural framework assessing a child or young person with special educational needs, and the procedure for making, reviewing, amending and ceasing to maintain an EHC plan, set out in Part 3 of the Children and Families Act 2014 ("the Act").

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EYFS Nursery Speech and Language Drop-In Sessions

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EYFS Nursery Speech and Language Drop-In Sessions

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Nursery parents can access regular drop-in sessions to access Speech and Language Therapy support and advice. Please see flyer for further information.

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EYFS DLP Speech and Language Consultation Sessions - Autumn Term.pdf

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oTX8TgWDIbawnmswfJ-7P2-DrmZuC5iMZwD88ajxVsY/edit

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Our designated counsellor is Clara Titre. She works with a number of pupils across our school to support mental health and well-being. We also proactively refer to Birmingham services for our pupils and their families to receive the support they need.

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School Based Counselling Services support pupils in primary, post primary and special sector schools in a number of regions in Northern Ireland. The service helps to increase the emotional well being of pupils in order to improve their learning potential. It offers a menu of supports: resilience building workshops, drop-in services, individual counselling, parent and staff consultation and training. School Based Counselling Services covers schools in the Belfast, South Eastern, Southern and Northern HSCT areas.

Mental health

Services supporting children and young people's emotional health and wellbeing. We have centres where children and young people can visit and have a trained worker they can trust and talk to. We help them build their confidence and get to the root of their difficulties.
Find out more about Mental health Search for Mental health services

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School Based Counselling Services support pupils in primary, post primary and special sector schools in a number of regions in Northern Ireland. The service helps to increase the emotional well being of pupils in order to improve their learning potential. It offers a menu of supports: resilience building workshops, drop-in services, individual counselling, parent and staff consultation and training.

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Our curriculum offers rich opportunity for talk and vocabulary development. This is supplemented with additional sessions in early years through the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) and focused language work throughout key stage 1 and 2 - delivered by our qualified staff and by experienced language therapists.

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/102FgszLopFdNh-HAFQ3lHlGVfA2r0Dm2/view?usp=drivesdk

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Speech and Language Therapy Advice Support Line.pdf

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We use social stories to prepare our pupils for any changes - these could be big changes, like a new teacher or a new classroom - or smaller changes, like a school trip. Here is one example of a social story: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19e_IwojkD_U8fZ5jgN-9y37FP_bkxfs2X6ZYBWJKfYA/edit#slide=id.g1317a20432e_0_48

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Hall Green DLP (Developing Local Provision)

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Hall Green DLP (Developing Local Provision)

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We are part of an exciting project across the Hall Green Schools where there is a professional development programme of training and information, connections with relevant professionals and access to a network of colleagues engaged in a learning community for staff in all settings.
This enables a collaborative and positive partnership with all professionals to ensure child’s right to access high quality early education.

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https://www.birminghamearlyyearsnetworks.org/about-dlp
We are part of the Developing Local Proivision project for early years.

Schools and settings are stronger working together, when they can better understand their context, and therefore, their priorities. The DLP initiative will further empower schools and settings to achieve solutions with support and resources, with a focus on:

Enhancing the capacity of Early Years settings and mainstream schools to work together to provide for children in their local area and to plan the provision that they need

Enabling more children to access high-quality provision as close as possible to where they live

Reducing reliance on high-cost specialist placements in out of city schools.

Miss Whitcombe and Mrs O'Conner (EYFS Lead) work on this with the local providers.

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DLP and Early Years

The Early Years DLP initiative will be delivered through the 10 District Early Years Networks .

The long-term aim is to establish good quality local provision that successfully meets the needs of individual children, supporting them in their Early Year's journey through to their chosen mainstream school where their needs will continue to be met well.

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About DLP - Birmingham Early Years Networks

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The Early Years DLP initiative will be delivered through the 10 District Early Years Networks . The long-term aim is to establish good quality local provision that successfully meets the needs of individual children, supporting them in their Early Year's journey through to their chosen mainstream school where their needs will continue to be met well.

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As a school and a Trust, we support our new teachers to the profession by ensuring quality professional development around key areas of Special Educational Needs. This is provided through specific sessions, alongside the ongoing daily dialogue with our SENCo.

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ECT Induction 2021-22 Final Version (1).pdf

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This training was led by the Educational Psychology Service. This whole-school training equipped staff with new knowledge enabling them to develop ‘trauma-informed practice’. Based on internationally validated discoveries in neuroscience, this approach enables staff to notice, improve and value their skills in establishing brain-building relationships with children and young people.

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ACES training (Adverse Childhood Experiences)

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ACES training (Adverse Childhood Experiences)

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https://www.acesonlinelearning.com/
All of our teaching staff have undertaken ACES training this academic year. This has supported them to identify adverse experiences that can impact on a child's development and their response to stress and how how building resilience can help mitigate the impact of ACEs.

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Social Emotional and Mental Health - Emotional Wellbeing Support

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Social Emotional and Mental Health - Emotional Wellbeing Support

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Staff have had 3 training sessions this year, due to the additional needs shown upon the reintegration of pupils post lockdown. These have focused on attachment, emotional resilience and autism.

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Lunchtime Supervisors have received Autism Awareness Training

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Lunchtime Supervisors have received Autism Awareness Training

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Staff understanding of the SEND Code of Practice 

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Staff understanding of the SEND Code of Practice 

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All of our teachers and support staff have had training on understanding the SEND Code of Practice and their role in this within our inclusive school.

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All of our teachers and support staff have Level 1 Autism Training.

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High quality support in all curriculum areas

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High quality support in all curriculum areas

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Miss Whitcombe, our SENCo, works with all subjects leads to ensure that pupils are supported to access the curriculum at the appropriate level for them to make progress and gain key skills and knowledge. We have a school developed toolkit for the wider curriculum which looks at best practice in each curriculum area as an ongoing tool for our teachers and support staff to use.

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Top tips, expert advice and fun activities to help you support your child's wellbeing and learning in a changing world. Parents, we've got you.

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SEND Support Services during the School Closure.pdf

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Physical Difficulties Support Service Parental Support.pdf

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Learning Difficulties Parent Support and Guidance.pdf

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NOiY6iDgXkcYWlLjzWbNU0ilOauejjOo/view?usp=drivesdk

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Communication and Autism Team Support for Parents.pdf

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Birmingham SEND Local Offer Information .pdf

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Here you will find help, advice and information about the services available for your child or young person from birth to 25 years with a Special Educational Need or Disability (SEND).

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Local Offer Birmingham | SEND Advice, support and Information

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Advice and information about the support and services available in Birmingham for your child or young person with a Special Educational Need or Disability (SEND)

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Our SENCo is Miss Whitcombe -

she can be contacted on 0121 464 2187

or via email on senco@robinhoodacademy.co.uk

Miss Whitcombe prides herself in having the pupils best interests at the heart of her practice. As a SEND expert, she has fostered great relationships with outside agencies and works closely with our families of pupils with Special Educational Needs to ensure the best communication around their educational journeys.