SENDspace

SEND advocate and campaigner. SEND parent. Interested in education and ASD.

[Steve Chalke @SteveChalke]

You can’t build a successful education system around shame, embarrassment, detention & exclusion. You can’t create inclusion for all via a curriculum that only works for some. So as the saying goes “If the child doesn’t learn the way you teach, start teaching the way they learn.”

[NAHT @NAHTnews]

Four years ago, Carr Mills Primary School in St Helens initiated a whole-school approach to mental health that went on to win the Pupil Mental Health Initiative of the Year award from TES.

We spoke to Katie Alexander, a leader at the school, to understand more.

Listen here: https://t.co/xNDM2bhinf

[Special Needs Jungle @SpcialNdsJungle]

One in 12 secondary pupils put in isolation rooms at least once a week, study finds, often for more than 8 hours.
Children with SEND more than twice as likely to experience ��internal exclusion”. https://t.co/Bw3uYI2o9J
Warwick Mansell’s view here: https://t.co/mtsZirVAxi

[Special Needs Jungle @SpcialNdsJungle]

NEW POST: “It’s not a compliance issue—it’s a design failure,” say child psychologists, as they call for systemic action on children's mental health and "harmful" rigid school attendance and behaviour policies https://t.co/OF33T8gDJJ

[Bad_school_parent 💙📚🤦🏻 @BadSchoolparent]

@SpcialNdsJungle Ok, but what should they drop to accommodate this task?

[Al Bundy @anonoccu1]

@SpcialNdsJungle Labour go cheap on SEND. Instead of more dedicated help & advice from experts in this field.

[Doubleshotespresso @dbshotespresso]

@SpcialNdsJungle Beyond baffling when so few actually receive any SEND training and so few headteachers homding the purse strings & also pay their salaries. Let teachers *teach* & give them the support they need to do it.

[Tes magazine @tes]

Mainstream school doesn’t work for 50 per cent of pupils, argues sector leader @phildenton81. But if we geared it to be more like AP, he says, it could work for all – and not cost us more
https://t.co/XmZnAVVWv4

[SENDspace @DspaceSen]

@AndrewGilbert1 https://t.co/cbTHYNZVfw

[Muhammad Jalal @jalalayn]

@zarahsultana Zarah I think a period of silence and refelection on all sides is currently what’s more helpful

[SENDspace @DspaceSen]

#senddebate very disappointing response from Georgia Gould SEND Minister- after a hugely powerful debate and display of empathy and understanding from MPs across the House.

[Special Needs Jungle @SpcialNdsJungle]

Georgia Gould SEND Minister: There will always be a legal right of support for children with special educational needs. Children should get support as soon as possible #SENDDebate

[Special Needs Jungle @SpcialNdsJungle]

Georgia Gould SEND Minister: II'd like to thank the parents who have sat through the debate for bringig their voices and I know how hard it is for parents to travel (Yay #saveourchildrensrights team!) #SENDDebate

[Special Needs Jungle @SpcialNdsJungle]

Georgia Gould SEND Minister: There will always be a legal right of support for children with special educational needs. Children should get support as soon as possible #SENDDebate

[Special Needs Jungle @SpcialNdsJungle]

DfE warned by IFS against quick-fix cuts in SEND reforms: “Principled reform…is needed…If the focus is on reducing legal rights to cut short-term costs, this could easily turn into welfare reforms mark 2.” https://t.co/N32lNnDR5B

[Ros Lucas @Rosciag]

@SchoolsWeek They have been off-rolled for years because predicted results not good - why do you think we have 900,000 NEETS? No extra year to catch up has led to failure for too many!

[SENDspace @DspaceSen]

Yet they are also inspecting inclusion

[Schools Week @SchoolsWeek]

Leaders fear schools will be tempted to exclude pupils who are less likely to hit top grades so they can score highly in Ofsted’s new 'achievement' evaluation area

https://t.co/uEV258OVNe

[Square Peg @teamsquarepeg]

Our amazing Ambassador Anna Maxwell Martin continues to shine a light on the tensions, perverse incentives and urgent opportunity to find Another Way. Together.

#supportnotsanctions
#decriminaliseschoolattendance

[Paul Hopkins 🙋🏽‍♂️👨🏽‍🔬🧮🖥🦡🌻 @hopkinsmmi]

Bennett's tenure saw school sanctions & absences soar, crises in SEND & CMH, and En pupils reporting record dissatisfaction. None of this can be resolved without curiosity about the causes, which Bennett seems averse to. He shows no sign of leaning. @bphillipsonMP

[Giles Paley-Phillips @eliistender10]

This is a little reminder for anyone who might need it today.

[Tom Rogers @RogersHistory]

The mantra that every second, every minute, every moment must be spent on ‘meaningful’ learning tasks is bogus. Simple conversations, tangents, interjections, humorous interludes weave things together and create the sort of atmosphere that children love to be in. Could last a few seconds, a few minutes, 5, 10, 15 minutes - it doesn’t matter. Quiz, lecture, powerpoint, quiz with no deviation because it would be wasted time? Not for me.