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Intervention
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Social Skills programmes/support including strategies to enhance self-esteem, develop the skills to make and sustain friendships and learn strategies to manage conflict in the playground.
- Weekly practical skills programme for small groups of 2 – 4 children
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Access to a supportive environment – IT facilities/equipment/resources (inc. preparation)
- Pre-teaching of vocabulary
- Over-teaching new strategies
- Prompt and reminder cards for strategies, organisational purposes and scaffolding tasks
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Strategies/programmes to support speech and language
- Delivery of planned Speech and Language programmes for individual children from trained teaching assistants
- Support from staff trained in speech and language strategies
- Linguistically modified and visually supported approach to the curriculum
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Mentoring activities
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Strategies to reduce anxiety/promote emotional wellbeing (including communication with parents)
- Involvement of Step 2 programme support (if appropriate)
- Protective Behaviours programme for individual children
- Referral to CAMHS (if appropriate)
- Nurture group
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Strategies to support/develop literacy inc. reading
- Small group support in class through Guided Reading
- Small group intervention programmes with teaching assistant to target gaps in learning
- Additional individual reading for targeted children
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Strategies to support modify behaviour
- Use of the school’s behaviour policy
- Time out
- Social skills/ behaviour modification programmes
- Interventions from The Park ESC Behaviour Support
- Interventions from Summerswood Behaviour Support
- Referral to Educational Psychology Services for individual children if appropriate
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Strategies to support/develop numeracy
- Small group intervention programmes with teaching assistant to target gaps in learning
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Provision to facilitate/support access to the curriculum
- Small group support from classroom teaching assistant
- 1:1 support in classroom from teaching assistant for individual children as appropriate to facilitate access through support/ modified resources
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Strategies/support to develop independent learning
- Use of visual timetables and checklists
- Clearly labelled and easily accessible classroom resources
- Pre-teaching of key vocabulary
- Access to personal IT resources
- Scaffolding of activities
- Behaviour for learning class targets
- Positive encouragement of a growth mindset culture
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Support/supervision at unstructured times of the day including personal care
- KS2 Playleaders in KS1 playground at lunchtime
- Wide variety of resources available for children to use (sports equipment, games, playground equipment)
- Teaching assistant support on playground to support behaviour for individual children as required
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Planning and assessment
- Assess, Plan, Do, Review plans
- Provision maps
- Pupil Progress meetings between Leadership Team and class teachers
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Liaison/Communication with Professionals/Parents, attendance at meetings and preparation of reports
- Liaison with a wide range of professionals (e.g. Health Visitors, School Nurse, Social Workers, Educational Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Children’s Centre Outreach Workers)
- Regular progress meetings with parents
- Explanation of professional reports to parents
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Access to Medical Interventions
- Individual protocols for children with significant medical needs and allergies
- Access to School Nurse
- Individual support plans for children with specific medical needs
- Strategies for the use of personal medication
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