Author: Cartwright, Tracey

Wrockwardine Wood C of E Junior School
SEND Newsletter
Summer 2021

‘Love, Laugh and Learn’

Hello and welcome to our first SEND Newsletter. For those of you who haven’t met me, my name is Alison Williams and I am the SENDCo. I have been teaching at Wrockwardine Wood for over ten years and have been the SENDCo for many of those! I am hoping that termly newsletters will help keep you in the loop of what is happening in school but also what is happening in the community to help support you. If there is anything specific you would like to see in future newsletters please drop me an email to let me know.
SEND Contact Details:
01952 387880 alison.hopkins@taw.org.uk

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself as the SEND Link governor for the school. My name is Samantha Azzopardi-Tudor and I have been a parent governor at the school since 2014 . I am currently working with Mrs Williams to outline an action plan for my involvement in SEND when we return to school for the new academic year in September. I am passionate about my involvement in SEND and working with the SENCo and the children to further develop my understanding and knowledge of the current SEND provision. I will be working as a champion for children with SEND, supporting everyone involved in the process where I can. My aim is to meet regularly with staff to gain information about the provision made for children with special educational needs and to monitor the implementation of the SEND policy. I would also like to observe at first-hand what happens in school both inside and outside the classroom to ensure that SEND pupils are actively involved in all aspects of school life and take opportunities to meet and talk with parents of SEND children.

Telford and Wrekin produce their own SEND newsletter on their local offer. It is full of updates, useful training and links to other agencies.
SEND News (telfordsend.org.uk)
Follow the link to read this month’s update. If you register you can receive the newsletters straight to your inbox.

Current training booked in for staff to improve the outcomes of our children with SEND:
Colourful Semantics
A Speech and Language Therapy intervention which develops sentence structure in spoken and written words.
Verbal Reasoning
A Speech and Language Therapy run training session to develop staff knowledge on how verbal reasoning difficulty impacts children in the classroom.

Please see below for training sessions being offered over July & August.
All sessions take place on MS Teams, and are open to parents, carers and professionals who are interested in attending. Please feel free to share and/or signpost to others who may be interested. There is no need to book – just click into the link at the session time
Beam continues to provide emotional well-being support to young people in Shropshire Telford & Wrekin.
Support should be requested via our website: users should scroll down to ‘register with us’ and complete the form that follows. Please note – the ‘register with us’ link should also be used to request follow-up sessions. Requests for service will be processed by our admin team and then appointments sent out by email.
We provide support by phone, virtual sessions via MS Teams and limited face to face sessions from our Wellington venue. We are strictly appointment-only and cannot accept any walk-ins. Once a request for service is received via the website, we will arrange a phone appointment for our initial contact, in which our practitioners will discuss the format of future sessions.
Should you have any queries please do get in touch via shropshirebeam@childrenssociety.org.uk.
Visit our website at http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk

Mental Health & Emotional well-being in children & young people.	We will cover: / · Effective communication. / · Empathy V Sympathy. / · Overview of common emotional well-being topics such as anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicidal ideation and anger.	Wednesday 7th July 2021 / 12pm – 1.30pm	Join on your computer or mobile app / Click here to join the meeting / Learn More | Meeting options
Sleepy Heads. / 2 session workshop around sleep & common issues. / It is advisable to attend both sessions.	Session 1: / · Sleep stages. / · Sleep hygiene. / · Bedtime routines.	Wednesday 21st July 2021 / 12pm-1.30pm	Join on your computer or mobile app / Click here to join the meeting / Learn More | Meeting options
	Session 2: / · Tackling common issues around sleep including: / · Prolonged night-time awakenings. / · Bedtime refusal & resisitance. / · Teen sleep.	Wednesday 4th August 2021 / 12pm-1.30pm	Join on your computer or mobile app / Click here to join the meeting / Learn More | Meeting options
Managing anxious behaviours in young people.	We will cover: / · What anxiety is. / · Science of anxiety. / · How to support.	Wednesday 18th August 2021 / 12pm – 1.30pm	Join on your computer or mobile app / Click here to join the meeting / Learn More | Meeting options

For Mental Health Awareness Week this year, everyone is invited to #ConnectWithNature.
Evidence shows that nature is good for our mental health. Connecting with nature can help prevent mental health issues. The benefits of nature have never been more evident than during the pandemic, when 45% of us reported that being in green space has been vital for our mental health. https://mhfaengland.org/mhfa-centre/resources/ have a vast range of resources to help our whole community support their mental health. Here’s one we love to get you started.