Author: Cartwright, Tracey

Wrockwardine Wood C of E Junior School
SEND Newsletter
Spring 2025

‘Love, Laugh and Learn’

Hello and welcome to our first newsletter of 2025. We have had a number of children join the school since the Autumn Term, so welcome to any new parents reading this newsletter.
We now have 259 children in our school, 53 of who are on the SEND Register, making it 20% of our school. The National Average is 14%.
By the end of this term you will receive your child's evaluated provision map to see how hard your children and the staff working with them, have worked towards their individualised targets. Please feel free to add any comments in the parents box.
If you have any questions about these, or anything else SEND, please don’t hesitate to get in touch on the contact details below. I have a Dojo group, so if you don’t have me as a contact on there, please let me know if you would like to and I can add you on.
SEND Contact Details: 01952 387880 alison.williams3@taw.org.uk

SEND Coffee Afternoon
It was wonderful to see so many families attend our Coffee Afternoon in March. The children loved sharing their hard work with you. Our Mental Health speaker was well-received, thank you for so many families giving us feedback on this speaker and suggestions for who else you would like to see at the next event.
If you would like copies of the Mental Health slides, or the signposting sites I shared, please get in touch.
SAVE THE DATE—Next Coffee Afternoon May 20th time TBC
This will have a transition focus where the mental health lead will discuss strategies for coping with transitions and I will share information on how transition is managed in school. Strengthening Families will also be attending. PODS and Autism Hub have also been invited.

Parents’ Evening and Provision Maps—Spring 2025
Monday 31st March Years 3 and 4 Wednesday 2nd April Years 5 and 6
I am looking forward to seeing lots of you at the upcoming Parents’ Evening. If you haven’t yet received an appointment from me and would like one, please get in touch and one can be organised. The additional appointment with me will allow you to discuss your child’s specific SEND needs in more detail and also look more closely a their Provision Map.
If you are unable to make these specific dates but would still like to meet, please get in touch.

Wrockwardine Wood C of E Junior School
SEND Newsletter
Spring 2025

‘Love, Laugh and Learn’

Pupil Voice
During the Spring Term, we have spoken to some of our children with SEND to collect their voice about the school environment and how safe they felt in different areas around school. They highlighted the locker spaces, cloakrooms and toilets as spaces they would like to feel more safe. As a result we have:
Supported the Safety Squad to create posters for the toilets to enforce rules
Changed which toilets can be accessed during lunch times
Introduced lanyards for entering the school building at lunch times
Created routines for supervision in the cloakrooms

Behaviour is Communication Training—Darren Lennon
On our Spring Term PD, Day all staff were trained in understanding different behaviours as ways of communicating. Darren Lennon runs the Behaviour Support Advisory Team in Telford and is also a Head Teacher at the Linden Centre, a specialist primary and secondary setting. His wealth of knowledge has supported the team’s adaptation of the behaviour policy and understand when and what children might be communicating.

Autism Hub
The Autism Hub has now expanded to support families of children on the ASD waitlist, not just those families with a diagnosis. They offer:
Workshops
Family support
Family play session
Online training
Here is the link for their leaflet or go to:
www.telfordautismhub.org.uk

telfordsend.org.uk
Telford and Wrekin’s Local Offer page is full of information and support services for children and families. Their pages are great at explaining lots of the SEND jargon and answering FAQs.
PODS create a newsletter each term which you can sign up to through email with their new research, support and groups.

Wrockwardine Wood C of E Junior School
SEND Newsletter
Summer 2025

‘Love, Laugh and Learn’

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.

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.