From Carrie White, Early Years Lead SEND Teacher
Well it is September and all children in Medway are due to
be returning to school as we begin to make our way back to ‘normal’ following
Covid. Hopefully, you will all be seeing your numbers increasing and
children returning to settings as parents are able to make their way back to
work. Unfortunately, we have lost a few settings due to the Covid
situation, we hope their staff and children are ok and can find suitable places
at other settings.
The Early Years SEN team are continuing to work, offering
SENCO surgeries and support to families. We are in the process of
planning for our groups once we can return to those as well.
We are still taking our lead from each setting individually
about whether we can visit or not. Our process is that we will only offer
a single visit a day, as you can appreciate, we have home visits and setting
visits which we usually do so we will offer many of these visits virtually at
the moment.
Looking forward to working with you all.
Carrie
ELSA training
Medway Educational Psychology Team are offering FREE ELSA (Emotional Literacy Support Assistant) training for PVI settings this academic year, for school-based nurseries this training costs £600. The training takes place over the course of the year and the same person needs to attend each of the sessions. Please see the attached flyer for the booking instructions.
Webinar training for Term 1
I will be hosting training for Role of the SENCO on Thursday 24th September between 10 and 11. The following week on Thursday 1st October the training will be The EHCP process and making a funding application. This is also between 10 and 11am. If you are interested in attending this training please email Tina Newman to book your place, Tina’s email is tina.newman@medway.gov.uk
SENIF
If you applying for additional funding please send applications through to eyhighneeds@medway.gov.uk or to the attention of Julia Hanks, Early Years SEND Practitioner/Administrator. Please remember these no longer go to Jackie Andrew.
As of April 2020, it was decided that any new funding agreed would only be paid once the children were attending setting. All funding agreed prior to that would still be paid. If you think you are outstanding any monies please contact Julia Hanks on 07717 531436.