St Margaret’s Twickenham and Teddington
Quindrat SENCo meeting
4 May 2010
Those present
Lynda Boys, Gill Hostler, Lisa Barnett, Isobel Mcleish, Mary Sibthorp, Claire
Berryman, Sarah Herbert, Caroline Walker
Apologies: Susana Goncalves
Rapid Trial
Mary Sibthorp shared the excellent gains made by children on the Rapid
maths, writing and reading trails. Progress was measured in ratio gains (how
many months of progress were made in each calendar month). All children
made progress, some as much as 11 months progress for each month of
participation in the project! Mary felt that some of this massive gain in the
maths trail was likely to be as a result of the improved confidence in maths
that the children were experiencing. Those on the maths trial were taught for
3x45 minutes sessions each week with additional time to rehearse skills on
the computer programme. The Rapid materials are designed to be used from
level P7 with a ceiling of level 4. The Rapid rep gave out sample packs of
materials to those at the meeting and expressed willingness to visit individual
schools to show the materials in more depth.
St Stephens Auditory Processing Difficulties project
St Stephens School have been running the APD project offered by the speech
and language therapy service with key stage 2. Lisa and the speech and
language therapist gave an overview of the project. The materials are
provided by the S&LT service and a therapist will work on the sessions with a
teaching assistant who is then able to continue the programme without
support. The programme runs for 10 weeks. In addition, teachers are
encouraged to take the principles of the programme into classrooms to
improve the listening behaviour of children at wave 1.
The S&LT now have an APD programme for key stage 1, and a narrative
programme for key stage 1 and 2. Training and support can be accessed
through each school’s attached speech and language therapist.
AOB
Sarah told the group about the recent Closing the Gap with Numicon
Intervention that she has been trained to train staff on. She will be running a
pilot project in the autumn term for a maximum of 10 interested schools.
Sarah told the group about the new senjit module for teachers and TAs that
she is hoping will run in the spring term. This will be another foundation
module, run over 5 days focussed on social, emotional and behavioural
difficulties. Advertising will go out as soon as the details are confirmed.
Next Meeting
Thursday 14 October 2010 at Collis Primary School
Agenda:
Visit from mental health/wellbeing person ?Agneta?? TBC Isobel to arrange.