Class teachers and members of school leadership team provide support for parents/carers in supporting their children and their progress in partnership. 

Alongside the bespoke support we have offered a range of courses in the academic year 2021-2022, some on-line and some face to face as restrictions lifted. Over years, feedback on courses to support parent/carers has been very positive.

Courses over time have included:

Makaton accredited courses for parent/carer.

Safe principles for moving and handling and manual handling

Accessing the internet.

Using communication aids

Eye Gaze

Musical Technology

Teaching various subjects

Development of physical skills 

Developing early language and communication - led by Speech and Language Therapists.

Sensory integration principles

Teaching of reading and phonics

Developing writing skills

Positive behaviour strategies

Use of structured visual resources to support pupil in understanding and transition.

Challenges of adolescence 

We ask parents/carers to let us know if there are specific courses that they would find useful. 

Examples of feedback has included:

Makaton accredited course:

• 100% found the course very useful

Comments included:

• It gives a way to communicate with my son and a better understanding
• Expanded our knowledge of Makaton
• We are using signs daily and we are learning new signs.
• I can make my son's life easier for him through signs

Parent comments from various other courses included:

• It gave me ideas on how to teach my non-verbal child about phonics and how to validate that they understand me.
• I learnt that I have to look after myself as well as my child.
• It was nice to chat with other parents about our concerns and realise we all have the same worries.
• I only really thought that reading started with books, I didn't think about sight or hearing elements. I now realise everything that my child does involves the first signs of reading.

After the success of this year’s programme of training with parents/carers, we are going to continue to offer a number of courses this year. The feedback from the sessions this year were all highly positive.

The following are provisional dates. Booking forms will be sent out closer to the time. m.

Our pupils have a range of needs. Not all of the sessions will match your child’s needs although you can come to the sessions if you are interested. If you are not sure if the session will be something that would support you with your child then please just contact Julie Goddard in school and she will know or will find out.

Booking forms will be sent out closer to the time but the list below gives you advance notice in case you want to pop the dates into your diaries. The dates will be fixed as below unless for any reason there is something we cannot control e.g. the trainer being absent etc.  We will also confirm when on the booking forms if sessions are face to face (and venue) or on Teams.

Our pupils have a range of needs. Not all of the sessions will match your child’s needs although you can come to the sessions if you are interested. If you are not sure if the session will be something that would support you with your child then please just contact Julie Goddard in school and she will know or will find out.

There will be:

• Challenges of Adolescence Course running in the summer term
• Supporting pupils behaviour again in the summer term
• Communication skills and understanding delivered by Speech and Language Therapy team  

Dates for these courses will be sent out when we are able to confirm

There will be other things we may add to the list during the year and we will tell you about these as they arise. The sessions above are ones that are currently planned. If there is something you think would be useful but we have not included in the programme then please just let us know and we can see if it something we can do.