[senco-forum] Re: senco-forum Digest, Vol 41, Issue 14

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Re Centre of Excellence
Hi
Does anyone know/have a copy of the criteria to become a Centre of
Excellence? > have tried the DfES and Ofsted and as yet no one has
been able to find them.
Thank you

Terry Cowell

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>   1. RE: Signing up to ask the Prime Minister to undertake     a major
>      review of the Special Educational Needs policy as recommended     by
>      the       House of Commons Education and Skills Committee and make
>      provision for     a system of special     educational nee (Husband, Tom)
>   2. Reading aloud (Chris Moyse)
>   3. RE: Reading aloud (Richard Cook)
>   4. RE: Reading aloud (Trow, Stephen)
>   5. RE: Reading aloud (dolfrog)
>   6. Re: senco-forum Digest, Vol 41, Issue 10 (Anthony Grice)
>   7. Re: Reading aloud (Chrisgier at aol.com)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:59:59 -0000
> From: "Husband, Tom" <HusbandT at ebrd.com>
> Subject: [senco-forum] RE: Signing up to ask the Prime Minister to
>        undertake       a major review of the Special Educational Needs policy as
>        recommended     by the  House of Commons Education and Skills Committee and
>        make provision for      a system of special     educational nee
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> Dear Eirwen and Barbara,
>
> Many thanks for signing the petition.
>
> We will be on BBC Look East (local news) in the next couple of weeks and hope to speak to the Annual SENCO Update Conference in March. If you know of anyone who is as concerned as we all are about SEN then please pass the attached on to them.
>
> Your support is much appreciated!
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> Good education leads to great things. We all know what the reverse leads to ....
>
> Tom and Adriana.
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> Subject: 1 in 5 children start secondary school unable to read or write properly and 1 in 5 boys aged 14 have the reading skills of a 7 year old
> Dear XXXXX,
>
> We are the parents of a severely dyslexic 10 year old child. From reception we have had to fight for any support for our child. It is a battle we lost. Education Authorities refuse to put funding in place to help children with special needs. Consequently 1 in 5 children start secondary school unable to read or write properly and 1 in 5 boys aged 14 have the reading skills of a 7 year old*. The government refuses to deal with this national scandal properly despite adult illiteracy costing the UK tax payer over £2 billion per year **. In a class of 30 children 6 will have special needs. All children suffer under the present system.
> We want the government to have a Special Educational Needs system which is fit for purpose. Please help by signing the petition we have started and by passing it on to at least five people.
> CLICK ON THIS LINK http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/FitForPurposeSEN/
> Many thanks,
> Tom and Adriana
>
> *information taken from Xtraordinary People website
> ** KPMG Foundation report "The long term costs of literacy difficulties" dated December 2006.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:44:37 -0000
> From: "Chris Moyse" <chrism22 at sherwoodhall.notts.sch.uk>
> Subject: [senco-forum] Reading aloud
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> I hope someone can quickly and easily point me to an authoritative
> document which gives scientific reasons why we should not ask an
> adolescent boy with severe reading difficulties to read aloud in class.
> I know, I know why would anyone do that?
> I have given many reasons why this should not happen but need to be able
> to back up my reasons with 'scientific stuff'. If it could contain long
> complicated words which anyone would find it hard to read so much the
> better.
>
> Chris Moyse
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:26:35 -0000
> From: "Richard Cook" <richard_cook at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: RE: [senco-forum] Reading aloud
> To: "Chris Moyse" <chrism22 at sherwoodhall.notts.sch.uk>,
>        <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
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> My first response is the DDA - legal rather than scientific, surely a
> 'resasonable adjustment'.
>
> Richard
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk]On Behalf Of Chris Moyse
> Sent: 13 February 2007 16:45
> To: senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
> Subject: [senco-forum] Reading aloud
>
>
> I hope someone can quickly and easily point me to an authoritative
> document which gives scientific reasons why we should not ask an
> adolescent boy with severe reading difficulties to read aloud in class.
> I know, I know why would anyone do that?
> I have given many reasons why this should not happen but need to be able
> to back up my reasons with 'scientific stuff'. If it could contain long
> complicated words which anyone would find it hard to read so much the
> better.
>
> Chris Moyse
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:16:42 -0000
> From: "Trow, Stephen" <TROWS at CAERPHILLY.GOV.UK>
> Subject: RE: [senco-forum] Reading aloud
> To: "Chris Moyse" <chrism22 at sherwoodhall.notts.sch.uk>,
>        <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
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> Hi Chris,
>
> There's plenty of reseach on Social Facilitation that shows that
> perfoeming a task that we find difficult in front of an audience impairs
> our performance.  Just doa Google search on "Social facilitation" and
> "reading" for info.
>
> Regards
>
> Steve Trow
>
>
> Educational Psychologist
> Inclusion Services
> Caerphilly
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> [mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Chris Moyse
> Sent: 13 February 2007 16:45
> To: senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
> Subject: [senco-forum] Reading aloud
>
> I hope someone can quickly and easily point me to an authoritative
> document which gives scientific reasons why we should not ask an
> adolescent boy with severe reading difficulties to read aloud in class.
> I know, I know why would anyone do that?
> I have given many reasons why this should not happen but need to be able
> to back up my reasons with 'scientific stuff'. If it could contain long
> complicated words which anyone would find it hard to read so much the
> better.
>
> Chris Moyse
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:49:45 -0000
> From: "dolfrog" <dolfrog at tiscali.co.uk>
> Subject: RE: [senco-forum] Reading aloud
> To: "'Chris Moyse'" <chrism22 at sherwoodhall.notts.sch.uk>,
>        <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
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> Hi Chris
>
> Being one who can not read aloud, due to my APD and may be other issues, for
> love nor money. If I was forced to do it I would be calling it
> Institutionalised disability discrimination if this was a school policy and
> looking to my MP to have who ever was responsible for this policy removed
> from their position, and a public apology to match my public humiliation.
>
> Best wishes
>
> dolfrog
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> [mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Chris Moyse
> Sent: 13 February 2007 16:45
> To: senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
> Subject: [senco-forum] Reading aloud
>
> I hope someone can quickly and easily point me to an authoritative
> document which gives scientific reasons why we should not ask an
> adolescent boy with severe reading difficulties to read aloud in class.
> I know, I know why would anyone do that?
> I have given many reasons why this should not happen but need to be able
> to back up my reasons with 'scientific stuff'. If it could contain long
> complicated words which anyone would find it hard to read so much the
> better.
>
> Chris Moyse
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:09:15 -0000
> From: "Anthony Grice" <anthony.grice at virgin.net>
> Subject: [senco-forum] Re: senco-forum Digest, Vol 41, Issue 10
> To: <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
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> It has been interesting reading the ideas and theories behind the process of
> learning to read. 22 years ago I taught my son , then age 3 to 'read'. He
> has Downs Syndrome and the very fact that there were labels stuck on every
> object in the house helped him to 'see' that items had names and helped him
> to name them, thus aiding his speech. This was advocated by Sue Buckley at
> the Downs Education project in Portsmouth. My son then went on to read and
> understand the words he read before he went to nursery school - an
> accomplishment not believed and soon 'tested' by his nursery teacher. To
> this day he is a relatively accomplished reader and , more importantly, he
> derives much pleasure from reading - to my mind the most important
> consideration when teaching reading.
>
> Jackie,
> North Wales
>
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:13:19 EST
> From: Chrisgier at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [senco-forum] Reading aloud
> To: senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
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> How about you find out what these people find difficult and ask them to
> demonstrate it in front of the whole school? Then ask them about self-esteem  etc.
>
> Chris
>
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