Primary Special Needs Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• A Day in the Life of a SENCO

  SENCO Claire Tyrrell discusses an innovative approach to inclusion for children with needs and experiences ranging from bereavement to trafficking and abuse

• Differentiating/Making a Statement

  Differentiation in Action - Primary; Making a Statement; Get Organised; Making Inclusion Work: Four programmes examining the tricky issues around inclusion

• Differentiating/Making a Statement

  Differentiation in Action - Primary; Making a Statement: Two programmes examining the tricky issues around inclusion

• Emotional Literacy

  Two programmes on Emotional Literacy: The Hightown ELSAs, and School Strategies, followed by Special Schools: Access the Curriculum

• Emotional Literacy: The Hightown ELSAs

  The pioneering work of two of the country's first emotional literacy support assistants (ELSAs), who have helped a primary school in Southampton raise standards and cut exclusions

• Gifted and Talented

  Three programmes on Secondary SEN: Secondary Gifted and Talented - Classroom Practice, Secondary Gifted and Talented - Whole School Issues and Musical Prodigies?

• Handwriting/ICT for SEN

  A Passion for Handwriting; Using ICT; Working with a Special School; and Communicating with Parents: Four programmes featuring strategies to improve SEN provision

• Handwriting/ICT for SEN

  A Passion for Handwriting; and Using ICT: Find out about a handwriting policy with real benefits for all pupils, and an ICT project accessible to all pupils, including those with SEN

• Hearing Impairment

  Three programmes: Hearing Impairment in Mainstream - Rosie's World, Alanah and Hannah, and Get Organised

• Making Inclusion Work

  Three programmes: Making Inclusion Work, Visual Impairment in Mainstream - Anna's World and Access the Curriculum

• Making Inclusion Work

  Discover how Wadhurst Primary has successfully integrated a high number of statemented and severely disabled pupils

• Outside Support

  Four programmes: Primary Special Needs - Working with a Special School, and Communicating with Parents, followed by KS1/2 English - Teaching the Dyslexic Child, Puppet on a Shoestring

• P-Scales/Differentiation

  Working with P-Scales; Differentiation: Two programmes exploring new strategies for including and assessing children with special needs. Then, A Day in the Life of a SENCO; and Behaving with Cowley

• P-Scales/Differentiation

  Working with P-Scales; Differentiation: Two programmes exploring new strategies for including and assessing children with special needs

• A Passion for Handwriting

  Find out how a headteacher who suffered from dyslexia has pioneered a handwriting policy which has real benefit to all pupils, but particularly for those with special educational needs

• Pupils and Peers 1

  Focusing on peer support strategies, such as 'Circle of Friends', which have been shown to increase self-esteem, reduce bullying and raise levels of attainment with SEN children and their peers

• Pupils and Peers 2

  Isolation and low self-esteem create barriers to learning. Explore inclusive solutions that can benefit the whole class as we look at peer support and their implementation

• Singing and Signing

  Carden Primary School uses Makaton symbols and signs across the school. This programme looks at the benefits of this and how they have implemented a whole-school signing policy

• Speech and Language Strategies

  Speech and Language Strategies, Singing and Signing, A Day in the Life of a SENCO and Count Me In: The Big Picture

• Speech and Language Strategies

  Staff at Carden Primary School demonstrate the strategies they used to enable children with severe speech difficulties to return to mainstream schooling

• Tackling Challenging Behaviour

  Tackling Challenging Behaviour 1 and 2: An exploration of special school strategies for working with children with emotional and behavioural difficulties, and attempts to utilise them in the mainstream

• Tackling Challenging Behaviour

  Tackling Challenging Behaviour 1 & 2: Can special school strategies for working with EBD pupils be utilised in the mainstream? Followed by Behaving with Cowley - Classroom Routines; and Group Work

• Tackling Challenging Behaviour 1

  Can special school strategies for working with emotional and behavioural difficulties be utilised in the mainstream? Explore the whole school practice and positive approach at Gibbs Green School

• Visual Impairment in Mainstream - Anna's World

  Follow Anna, a visually impaired 8 year old pupil at Wadhurst Primary school and discover the problems she faces and the approaches that the school has taken to solve them

• Working with a Special School

  How a special school and a mainstream primary share TAs and resources and work together creatively to benefit SEN pupils

• Working with P-Scales

  Teaching staff and a SENCO at a school in Newcastle talk about their experiences of working with P-Scales, a new system of measuring attainment for some special needs pupils