[senco-forum] Can you give me feedback?

I'm lucky because I get to write my own timetable. However, that's 
where it ends because I am only entitled to as many non-contact lessons 
as any other HoD and of course, if any students are sent to work in my 
room I have to supervise them so you can forget SENCo time then. I have 
236 on the CoP, manage three teachers and 14 LSWs and provide the meat 
in the sandwich whenever something goes wrong. I'm sure this sounds 
familiar to everyone. I wouldn't do anything else though!!

----Original Message----
From: chris19251 at blueyonder.co.uk
Date: 15-Sep-2006 16:50
To: <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
Subj: RE: [senco-forum] Can you give me feedback?

In a word NO!! It's not reasonable.
When you say teaching do you mean whole class mainstream or small 
special
needs groups and individual? Even if this is what you mean I don't see 
how
you can possibly carry out the role of SENCO in 7/25 periods.
For a start off with 55 statements that's nearly 2 a week so including
paperwork you could say that that's 220 hours a year without anything 
else.
Then there's SAP reviews and SA reviews and monitoring and managing 
the TAs
and teachers, and Access Arrangements and writing and updating your
SEf...and monitoring differentiation by classroom teachers and..
regular
meetings with your educational psychologist and the LA behaviour and
learning support teams and ... .. and..erm....shall I carry on?
No it's not reasonable!
Chris, Secondary SENCO who's currently in the process of writing the
timetable.... 3 periods a week mainstream English ....3 periods small 
group
work and 1 period individual work with a Statemented pupil and 2 
periods of
support so far.....

-----Original Message-----
From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of steve 
griffiths
Sent: 15 September 2006 15:33
To: senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: [senco-forum] Can you give me feedback?

I'm a SENCO at a mainstream, secondary,  LEA school. I've been told 
that I 
need to teach for three quarters of my time (18 lessons out of 25) .

This means I have just 7 hours of lesson time to carry out the SENCO 
role.

We have 55 with statements, 150 on school action plus and I have 2 
teachers 
plus 8 TA's to manage.  We also have many students who need to learn 
english

and one of the teachers manages this function.

How does this compare with your experience and do you think it's 
reasonable.

Steve

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