SENCO and SEN Staff
Our SENCO is Miss Ferguson (Acting Headteacher)
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.
It is the SENCO’s job to:
- Oversee the day-to-day operation of the school’s SEN policy
- Liaise with the relevant Designated Teacher where a looked after pupil has SEN
- Advise teachers on using a graduated approach to providing SEN support
- Advise on the deployment of the school’s delegated budget and other resources to meet the pupil’s needs effectively
- Liaise with parents/carers of pupils with SEN
- Liaise with and be a key point of contact for external agencies
- Ensure that the school keeps the records of all SEN pupils up to date
- Work with the head teacher and school governors to ensure that the school meets its responsibilities with regard to reasonable adjustments and access arrangements by phoning the school on 01740 620162 or sending an email to: fishburn@durhamlearning.net
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
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder Team
- Behaviour Support Services
- Crisis Response
- Children’s Occupational Therapy
- Durham Educational Psychology Service
- Durham Movement Difficulties Service
- Educational Social Workers
- Future Steps
- SEND Support Service
- One Point Children’s Service
- Special Educational Needs – Inclusion Team
- Looked After Children
- Medical Practitioners
- Occupational Therapy
- CAMHS Assessment Team
- Speech and Language Therapy
- The Service for Hearing Impaired
- The Service for the Visually Impaired
- Health Visitors
- Educational Welfare Officer, Strategy teams
How We Secure Specialist Expertise
The budget allocation is agreed between our school and the Local Authority at the beginning of each financial year. Detail of how this money is used to support children and young people with SEND is shown below. This is monitored each term by the Governing Body. Full details about the way in which funding is allocated to schools for special educational needs provision can be found here:
Our Additional Needs Budget is used to support children and young people with SEN. At Fishburn Primary School, our notional SEN budget amounts to £31,338.03
This is used to support children and young people with SEND by:
- Providing in class support
- Providing Targeted Intervention
- Running specific programs of work with pupils
- Short term ‘Booster’ initiatives
- Paying the first £6,000 of provision for SEND pupils for whom an assessment is being requested
Provision of specialist equipment to meet the individual needs of pupils.
If a child has complex special educational needs, we could also receive additional funding from the Local Authority to meet the agreed outcomes.
