Role of Primary Senco

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Role of Primary Senco

• Trallwn Primary

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Role of Primary Senco

• Main task ensure provision for the pupils with
  SEN is being delivered.
• How?
• Manage Teaching Assistants effectively
• Establish and monitor IEPs
• Identify, refer and liaise with outside agencies
• Ensure partnership with parents
• Through encouraging more multisensory learning
  with the staff as a whole
• Evaluate practice

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1. Manage Teaching Assistants Effectively

• Half termly meetings as a group
• Weekly planning meetings with my own teaching
  Assistants and this is encouraged throughout the
  school
• Comment sheets in IEPs
• Training needs identified and courses booked
• Also in-school training delivered
• Questionnaires given out at end of year to both
  TAs and teachers, to plan for next year

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2. Establish and monitor IEPs

• Discuss with teachers, TAs, parents and pupils,
  targets for IEPs
• Ensure comment sheet is filled in weekly
• Targets are SMART targets
• SEN workshop held half termly
• All people working with child to write in IEP
  including outside agencies
• Review meetings held every term

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3. Identify, refer and liaise with outside
agencies

• Identify and assess needs
• Refer to outside agencies working with parents at
  all stages
• Work with EWO when attendance is affecting
  learning
• Arrange time for TAs to meet Speech Therapists to
  go through programmes

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4. Ensure partnership with parents

• Meet regularly with parents,
• Set up Chatterbox to encourage parents to meet
  and find out about the school etc.
• Make the parents feel special
• Keep them informed of all developments with SEN
  an their child, tell them about good progress

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Encouraging multisensory learning with the staff
as a whole

• In service training on multisensory teaching and
  how children learn
• Model lessons
• Behaviour strategies include changing learning
  styles

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6. Evaluate practice

• Track pupils progress
• Update targets in IEPs at reviews, are they
  moving back to SA?
• Get feedback from parents, pupils teachers etc
• Resources used effectively
• Report to Governors

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SEN Development Plan

• Yearly plan 3 targets outlined and each year
  previous targets evaluated
• Part of School Improvement Plan
• Person responsible for targets written down and
  time till completion specified