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Our Toolkits

Supporting children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities is an important part of your role. High quality teaching and support, through planned and targeted differentiation, is essential to supporting any child or young person with special educational needs.  

Our toolkits offer a range of practical strategies that can support settings with developing their inclusive classroom practice and wider school approaches.  Take a look to find out more about each of our toolkits and how they can support you in your role.

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Our Quality First Teaching Tips Toolkit is a fantastic resource of top tips to support all staff in using Quality First Teaching strategies when meeting the needs of learners. Quality First Teaching and the graduated response to SEN is embedded in the SEND Code of Practice and the toolkit has been developed by members of the SEN Support workstream to support this in school settings.

 

This toolkit pulls together 10 teaching strategies for each primary area of need within the SEND Code of Practice as well as 10 Quality First Teaching strategies to support Early Years and strategies for developing an inclusive classroom.

 

Click here to download a copy: Quality First Teaching Toolkit

Our toolkit 'Supporting children and young people with social, emotional and mental health needs' gives a wide breadth of whole school approaches and classroom strategies to support children and young people with SEMHS needs.

This has been developed members of the BELS Inclusion Advisory Team in consultation with our SEN Support Workstream, the Barnet Parent Carer Forum and an independent Behavioural Specialist.

Click here to download a copy: Social Emotional and Mental Health Teaching Toolkit

 

Early identification of special educational needs is an important part of ensuring that the best provision is made for all children and young people. Where a child or young person continues to make less than expected progress, despite high quality differentiated targeted teaching, it is important to understand whether there is an underlying need that is acting as a barrier to learning.

Within Barnet we have developed the SENCO Toolkit which is there to support SENCOs with the early identification and assessment of special educational needs. The toolkit consists of the following sections:

  1. Section 1: Introduction
  2. Section 2: Identification of Need: EYFS Identification of Need / Primary Identification of Need / Secondary Identification of Need
  3. Section 3: Assessment Tools
  4. Section 4: My SEN Support Plan
  5. Section 5: Setting Outcomes
  6. Section 6: Useful Links

If you would like further guidance or support with using any element of the toolkit, do get in touch with one of our Inclusion Advisory Teachers who would be happy to help.

Click here to download a copy of the Early Years & Early Education Resource Pack

Here are some practical tips and strategies to help you support learners with special educational needs. 

Click here to download a copy:  Tips for supporting learners with SEN

Click here to download a copy:   Tips for working with support staff

Here are some practical tips and strategies to help you support Memory in learners

Click here to download a copy:  Memory Toolkit

Here are some practical tips and strategies to help you support childen of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Click here to download a copy:  Supporting Refugee and Asylum Seeker Children Toolkit

The aim of the Content Kit is to highlight some of the most useful early skills and knowledge needed for literacy. It is aimed at those people supporting pupils who are struggling to learn to read and write, in Key Stage 2 and above. •It can be used as a starting point for identifying and working on relevant goals for kick starting progress with literacy for pupils who have very few literacy skills, or significant gaps in their literacy skills.

Click here to download a copy of the Literacy Toolkit

Click here to download a copy of the Literacy Contents Kit

Click here to download a copy of the Motor Skills Toolkit