West Cornforth Primary School

High Street, West Cornforth, Ferryhill, DL17 9HP

 West Cornforth Primary School
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Home / SEND / SEN Specialist Expertise

SEN Specialist Expertise

SENCO and SEN Staff

Our SENCO is Miss Rebecca Gregg. She can be contacted at r.gregg300@durhamlearning.net. Miss Gregg is working towards the National Award for SENCO accreditation.

Mrs L Smith has also been awarded the National Award For SENCO accreditation. Mrs Smith is TEACHH trained and PECS trained.

More details of the SENCO’s role can be found in the SEN Policy which you can find in the School Policies section of our website.

All of the Early Years Team are trained in Manual Handling and hoisting. Miss Lamb and Miss Chambers are trained in catheterisation.

External Specialists and Other Bodies

The school enjoys good working relationships with a wide range of people who provide services to children with SEND and their families.

The external specialists may:

  • Act in an advisory capacity
  • Extend expertise of school staff
  • Provide additional assessment
  • Support a child directly
  • Suggest statutory assessment is advisable
  • Consult with all parties involved with the child

These include:

  • Durham County Council Local Offer
  • Durham SEND Information,  Advice and Support Service
  • One Point Ferryhill
  • The Educational Psychology Service
  • CAMHS
  • ASC team
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Psysiotherapists
  • Counselling Service

How We Secure Specialist Expertise

Our Additional Needs Budget is used to support children and young people with SEN.  At West Cornforth Primary School, our notional SEN budget amounts to £59,549.

This is used to support children and young people with SEND by:

  • Providing each class with a teaching assistant to support children within class or to carry out interventions when necessary.
  • The purchase of specialist computer packages to help support specific needs e.g. Speech link, Dynamo Maths, Lexia, IDL.
  • Allowing staff to access training specific to individual needs, for example ADHD, Autism, Nurture Group training.
  • Providing one to one support, or one to two support from a teaching assistant, where necessary.
  • The set up and running of a ‘Nurture Room’ where children receive individualised support.

If a child has complex special educational needs, we could also receive additional funding from the Local Authority to meet the agreed outcomes.

SEN information Report

  • Introduction
  • Our SEN Provision
    • The kinds of SEN that are provided for:
    • Our approach to teaching children & young people with SEN
    • How we adapt the curriculum and learning environment for children & young people with SEN
    • How we identify, assess and review children with special educational needs
    • How children with SEN engage in all activities?
    • How we evaluate the effectiveness of SEN Provision
  • Support for Emotional & Social Development
  • Looked After Children with SEND
  • SEN Transition
  • SEN Specialist Expertise
  • Consulting with our SEN Pupils, Parents & Carers
  • Compliments, Complaints & Feedback
  • Key Policies

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High Street

West Cornforth

Ferryhill

DL17 9HP

Tel 01740 654 315 · Email westcornforth@durhamlearning.net


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