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Middleton-in-Teesdale Nursery and Primary School

Town End, Middleton in Teesdale, Barnard Castle, DL12 0TG

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Home / SEND / SEN Specialist Expertise

SEN Specialist Expertise

SENCO and SEN Staff

Our SENCO is Mrs Grace Churchill. She can be contacted at g.churchill200@mitpschool.co.uk.

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.

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

These include:

  • Durham County Council Local Offer
  • Durham SEND Information,  Advice and Support Service
  • Durham Educational Psychology Service
  • Barnard Castle One Point Hub
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
  • Speech and Language Therapists
  • Durham Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Communication Team
  • Durham Cognition and Learning Team
  • Durham Emotional, Wellbeing and Effective Learning Team
  • Durham Behaviour Support Services / Crisis Response.
  • Treetops Occupational Therapy Service for Children
  • Educational Social Workers
  • Looked After Children Team
  • Learning Difficulties and Disability Support Service
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Medical Practitioners
  • Counselling Service

How We Secure Specialist Expertise

Our Additional Needs Budget is used to support children and young people with SEN. At Middleton-in-Teesdale Nursery and Primary School, our notional SEN budget amounts to £39,280.34.

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

  •  Providing each class with a teaching assistant to support children within class, or to carry out interventions when necessary.
  • The purchase of specialist computer packages to help support specific needs.
  • Allowing staff to access training specific to individual needs, for example ADHD, Autism, Nurture Group training and Makaton.
  • Providing one to one support, or one to two support from a teaching assistant, where necessary.
  • The running of a ‘Nurture Room’ where children receive individualised support.

If a child has complex special educational needs, we could also receive additional funding from the Local Authority to meet the agreed outcomes.

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
  • SEN Specialist Expertise
  • Consulting with our SEN Pupils, Parents & Carers
  • Compliments, Complaints & Feedback
  • Key Policies

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Town End

Middleton-in-Teesdale

Barnard Castle

County Durham

DL12 0TG

Tel 01833 640382 · Email middleton@durhamlearning.net





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