What Facilities do we provide to help children with SEND to access the learning environment?
At Exning Primary School, children have access to a range of equipment to support their learning. Here are some examples of what we currently have available in school:
- Chrome books
- iPads
- Software such as Clicker and Immersive Reader
- Coloured overlays and paper/worksheets (based on the outcome of a Visual Stress Assessment)
- 'Concrete manipulatives' (a range of mathematical equipment to support understanding of key concepts. For example: counters, Dienes blocks, Cuisenaire rods, bead strings, tens frames and PV charts).
- Adaptive seating (where required)
- Writing aides (E.g., Colourful Semantics, phoneme frames, pencil grips, writing wedges).
- Talk buttons/postcards
- Draw and Talk Sessions
- Ear defenders
- Sensory hall (+ Sensory Room in the Hive classroom)
- A large range of sensory equipment (E.g., fidget toys, 'Chewelry', body socks, rockers, sensory mats and many more items)
- Large communication board displays
- Subscriptions to Times Table Rock Stars (TTRS) and Numbots
- Personalised social stories
Alongside a wide range of equipment, we have access to a number of successful intervention programmes. Here are some examples of interventions that we are currently using to support children in our school:
Communication and Interaction support
- Blanks Level Questioning Interventions
- Colourful Semantics (to develop word order and simple phrases in early communication)
- Language Links
Cognition and Learning support
- Colourful Semantics (Used to structure simple sentences)
- Dynamo Maths
- Ready to Progress (Maths interventions)
- Reading Eggs
- Acceleread Accelewrite
- Sound Discovery
Social, Emotional and Mental Health support
- Comic Strip Conversations
- Time to Talk
- Draw and Talk
- Thrive
- Hamish & Milo
Please note that the lists provided reflect the available provisions but are not exhaustive.