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.