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.