[senco-forum] Ofsted looming!

Welcome to the forum - which will be quite quiet this week due to half term.

Sounds like you've done an awful lot in one year.  Keep the evidence!

At my last OfSTED, last March amongst other things they wanted to know/see -

how I identified the pupils with SEN
how effectivew our links with parents were
how I tracked them
How I met their needs and how I monitored progress/effectiveness
how i knew the tAs were effective
what training and qulalifications they had and how I knew if the training
they had had was effective!

Richard

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[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk]On Behalf Of Chris Holt
Sent: 22 October 2006 14:23
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Subject: [senco-forum] Ofsted looming!

Hello,

I am new to the forum and look forward to sharing and gaining a great deal
from your vast experience.

September 2005 I was made SENCo of a large primary school. What a hectic 12
months I had getting to grips with the role. Previous to this I had provided
leaning support within the school part time. I have taught every year group
in the school over 28 years and am at present spending one day per week
teaching Reception. This has turned out to be quite useful for early
identification of SEN.

My role has evolved to become Inclusion Manager this year, with a team of
HLTAs and Inclusion Support TAs to support.This has added considerably to my
work-load.

Ofsted are likely to make the call in the near future and I wonder what they
will expect from me at this early stage in developing my role.

So far I have carried out an audit to identify additional needs / barriers
to learning and used assessments to identify under-achievement. I have
produced a draft copy of a whole school provision map and set up
intervention groups including Salley, Nurture/ social skills groups, anger
management, fine motor skills, ABC (ATTENTION, BALANCE CO-ORDINATION ) group
programme. From this I have produced passports to learning detailing
provision for individual pupils at School Action. I continue to produce IEPS
for pupils at School Action Plus and those with Statements. I recently held
Reviews for pupils at School Action Plus during Parent's Evening.

At the same time I have been busy keeping on top of my SENCo responsibility,
which is a huge task on its own. One area which I really haven't had time
for is getting into classrooms to carry out observations of first level
teaching, but hope to move onto this next half term. I have produced
Inclusion folders for staff including articles from Special Ed of interest
to staff, information on identification of SEN etc.

On top of this I am responsible for Child Protection, so have lots of cases
on the boil at present, with CP conferences and core group meetings on a
regular basis.

Please advise on how you feel this will go down with Ofsted.

Many thanks

Gillian

Ps I don't know how I get time to eat and sleep!!!

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