Blackhall Primary School

Middle Street, Blackhall Colliery, Hartlepool, TS27 4NA

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Home / SEND / SEND Specialist Expertise

SEND Specialist Expertise

SENCO and SEND Staff

Our SENCO is Mrs Claire Baker and she can be contacted by phone on 0191 5864049 or by email at c.baker@blackhallprimary.school . Mrs Baker holds the statutory National Award for SEN Coordination qualification required of all SENCOs and also has a Postgraduate Certificate in Vulnerable Learners and Inclusion from Bath Spa University. She regularly attends Durham County SEN network meetings and training courses.

More details of the SENCO’s role can be found in the SEN Policy which you can find in the School Policies section of our website.

Our Teachers and Teaching Assistants attend a variety of county run SEN courses and staff training workshops in school and are encouraged to keep their knowledge of SEN up to date.

External Specialists and Other Bodies

The school enjoys good working relationships with a wide range of people who provide services to children with SEND and their families.

The external specialists may:

  • Act in an advisory capacity
  • Extend expertise of school staff
  • Provide additional assessment
  • Support a child directly
  • Suggest statutory assessment is advisable
  • Consult with all parties involved with the child

How We Secure Specialist Expertise

Our Additional Needs Budget is used to support children and young people with SEND. If a child has complex special educational needs, we could also receive additional funding from the Local Authority to meet the agreed outcomes.

This is used to support children and young people with SEND by:

  • Providing staff training
  • Buying resources to support children
  • Enabling staff to run intervention programs
  • Paying for assessment and advice from outside agencies e.g. Cognition and Learning Team

At Blackhall Primary school, we liaise with the following agencies depending upon the individual child’s needs:

  • Autism Social Communications Team
  • One Point
  • CAMHS
  • Crisis Response
  • Education Psychology Service
  • Emotional Wellbeing for Effective Learning Team
  • Learning Difficulties and Disability Support Service
  • Movement Difficulties Service
  • Occupational Therapy
  • School counsellor
  • School Nurse Team
  • Social Care and Health Team
  • Speech and Language Therapy

We encourage these professionals to visit school as often as possible to work with our staff and share their expertise. Wherever possible, staff implement programmes of work linked to these professionals e.g. speech and language programmes, exercises recommended by physical therapies etc.

In this section

  • Introduction
  • Our SEN Provision
    • The kinds of SEN that are provided for:
    • Our approach to teaching children & young people with SEN
    • How we adapt the curriculum and learning environment for children & young people with SEN
    • How we identify, assess and review children with special educational needs
    • How children with SEN engage in all activities?
    • How we evaluate the effectiveness of SEN Provision
  • Support for Emotional & Social Development
  • Looked After Children with SEND
  • SEN Transition
  • SEND Specialist Expertise
  • Consulting with our SEN Pupils, Parents & Carers
  • Compliments, Complaints and Feedback
  • SEND Key Policies
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Middle Street

Blackhall Colliery

Hartlepool

TS27 4NA

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