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SEND conference programme 2024
Delivered by Natalie Packer, SEND Consultant, NPEC Ltd
The session will focus on:
- Understanding SEND data
- Reflecting on identification of SEND in your school
- Using your SEND profile to plan provision
Delivered by Colin Foley, National director of training, ADHD foundation
This session will discuss what Neurodiversity is and isn’t, including up to date research, key features, comorbidities, executive functioning impairments, emotional dysregulation and the different presentations of neurodiverse conditions, including gender.
We will explore strategies for the classroom- including support for executive functioning, anxiety, communication, working memory, environment and support for self-management.
This session will be applicable to professionals working in all phases of education.
Delivered by Dr Carrie Gould, Specialist Senior Educational Psychologist (Cognition and Learning) and James Crompton, SEND Advisory Teacher, Devon County Council
Working memory plays a crucial role in our cognitive abilities. It’s like the mental sticky note where we temporarily hold information while our mind is busy with other tasks. In educational settings, working memory is particularly vital for early literacy and numeracy—the building blocks of academic success. Working memory capacity continues to develop in Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 too.
This workshop is suitable for colleagues across all age ranges and will provide an overview of working memory then identify the implications for literacy/English and numeracy/maths. You will be able to share experiences of supporting children’s working memory and take away a range of strategies too.
Delivered by DiAs
Are you looking to develop and strengthen relationships with parents and carers in meeting the needs of pupils with SEND? This is an opportunity to explore where you are with coproduction and gain new ideas about how you work effectively with your wider school community. Hear from those who have tried different approaches, how they set up their provision and what difference it makes.
Delivered by Tina Jackson, School Effectiveness Adviser and Hannah Chamings, SEND Adviser, Devon County Council
This workshop will provide dedicated time and space for Head Teachers (or other senior leaders) to come together and reflect on current SEND provision and practices in your settings. You will have the opportunity to work collaboratively, alongside colleagues, and guided by members of the SEND and school improvement teams, to consider strengths as well as identify current barriers, concerns and priorities for your setting. Through discussion and a range of activities, we will support you to consider possible next steps, and hope you will leave the workshop with some clear actions, new ideas and a renewed sense of direction.
Conference programme
09:20 Welcome and introduction - Hannah Chammings, SEND Advisor, Devon County Council
09:30 Sharing Devon's SEND plans - Kellie Knott, SEND Improvement Director and Ceri Morgan, Deputy Director, Education and Learning
09:45 Embedding a whole school approach to SEND - Natalie Packer, SEND consultant, NPEC LTD
The session will focus on:
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- Developing an inclusive culture
- Involving all leaders
- Working with governors
- Reflecting on the quality of SEND leadership and provision in your school
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11:00 Refreshments, exhibition and networking
11:40 Strengthening Ordinarily Available Inclusive Provision in your setting: An opportunity to explore a whole school approach to OAIP - Samantha Chapman, Rachel Hearn and Hannah Chamings, Devon County Council
12:10 Move to workshop one
12:15 Workshop session one - See workshop options above
13:20 Lunch, networking and exhibition
14:30 Move to workshop two
14:35 Workshop session two - See workshop options above
15:40 A lived experience of SEND through school - Mikey Akers, Mikey's wish foundation
Mikey is 23, lives with a diagnosis of Apraxia of Speech and will be sharing his experience of accessing Special Educational Needs throughout his school and college life. He will be talking, from first hand experience, how living with a severe neurological speech disorder impacted on his time in the classroom.
From something as simple as making friends, and expressing his basic needs through to how his speech and language difficulties made accessing the curriculum almost impossible without additional support, he will talk about the support he received, what he found helpful and what he thinks would be beneficial for children in his position today.
16:30 Close of conference
