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Selective Mutism was insightful and useful information about SM. Can feedback to school staff and implement ideas and research resources mentioned. Great Session. Thank you

Gemma Sanchez

Stubbins Primary School

Selective Mutism course was fantastic !! useful strategies and advise to take away. Very useful session.So many opportunities to ask questions with a SM expert. Really enjoyed it !!

Niamh

St Thomas Primary School

Selective Mutism course has helped me understand the possible causes of selective mutism. This has been very useful. would have preferred a few more concrete strategies to try with my pupils. lots of links and resources discussed thankyou.

Tanya Valenzuela

Crosshill School

Dyslexia Support Secondary Schools gave me an opportunity to refresh previous learning CPD with up to date course content. I will take away some ideas to use within my setting. Thank you

Marianne Thurm

Brookhaven

Dyslexia Support for Secondary Schools is useful for all students. Harriet puts things in different ways so everyone understands. Felt very included in the training.

Janette Gallagher

Ash Grove School

Attention Autism was very useful, brilliant ideas and great understanding. The information I received today has been a great help !! Thankyou

Hollie Heckford

St Marys C of E

The Attention Autism Course was very useful, good information on working with children who need additional support. great session, very interesting.

Claire Jordan

Guardian Angels

The Attention Autism course was useful, how this impacts the children and when I need to change items and how many resources you need. Very Good Course

Lisa Studholme

Our Lady of Lourdes

Dyslexia Multisensory Approach was very useful ! really informative and helped broaden my SEND knowledge. Excellent training !! lots to take back to school to help support our pupils.

Amy Warburton

Ash Grove School

Dyslexia Multisensory Approach course was excellent, some good ideas for supporting children. trying a different approach, games for example

Christine Oldham

Sunnybank Primary School

Dyslexia Multisensory approach was useful to think about ways we can help our children in the classroom and in my intervention. very useful courses provided by Oak LP Outreach to further my development. Course leader happy to answer any questions.

Joanne Costin

Unsworth Primary School

strategically thinking about resource provision curriculum course was very useful in discovering how to adapt your timetables to meet needs of individual learners. Oak LP Outreach training is very relevant to my specialised area.

Megan Yorke

St Annes RC Primary School

strategically thinking about resource provision curriculum course was great with lots of useful ideas and support. Lots to take away and reflect on.

Liz Brittain

Woodbank Primary School

strategically thinking about resource provision curriculum course has massively helped us with a starting point for our RP Curriculum. Oak LP Outreach are providing useful training.

Stefanie Wilson

Woodbank Primary

Lego Therapy was very informative about rearranging a lego session and the reason for the intervention. Very good at showing how to adapt the session to the students. Really well delivered, engaging and fun.

AJ Sparkes

Hazel Wood High School

Lego Therapy was very informative, the course taught me a lot about communication and that not everyone sees things or describes things in the same way.

Sue Bardsley

St Marys C of E Primary School Prestwich

Lego Therapy was very useful and reminded me of the needs you might come across and how to deal with them. Oak LP are providing useful training.

Sigrid Richards

St Andrews Primary School

Engagement through story telling workshop has triggered ideas of using stories in an engaging fun way. They will encourage children to feel positive about stories and literacy. This course was excellent and helpful. Length of the course manageable

Dena Stern

Yesoiday Hatorah

Engagement through story telling is a fantastic introduction into sensory stories. Im looking forward to future training to build on this intro. I have attended a few training sessions and have booked more in the future.

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Engagement through story telling was extremely helpful, learning how to bring stories across the different subjects and using everyday objects to open a childs mind. Looking forward to bringing some Interesting techniques and stories to Emmanuel.

Gina Goddard

Emmanuel Holcombe CE Primary

Inclusive Classroom course was really useful, lots of ideas. A good chance to reflect during the session. Oak LP are providing useful training especially for a new SENCO.

Kathryn Jones

St Mary's Prestwich

Inclusive Classroom course was very useful and informative. I have gained so much information to help our students.

Tracy Stephenson

St Thomas's Primary School

Inclusive Classroom was extremely useful for work and at home. I cant believe how much useful info I collected in such a short space of time. So many Ideas to put into place.

Theresa Kavanagh

St Thomas's C of E Primary

Supporting early reading and phonics enhanced my subject knowledge and refreshed the stages of teaching phonics. Gave me ideas to incorporate in my classroom. Engaging training that supports new staff and refreshes current staff.

Kayleigh Dixon

Elms Bank School

Supporting Early reading and phonic was useful and enjoyable, learning more about phonic sounds. Thank you

Farzana Ali

St Thomas's Primary School

Supporting early years reading and phonics was very informative with many ideas. very useful to help us continue working at a high level.

Andrea Leech

Unsworth Primary School

Early Years Good Autism Practice Training was very useful the theory and science behind it as well as real life examples to take away and put into practice. I attend any sessions i can.

Elizabeth Johnson

Sunnybank Primary School

Dyslexia Friendly Learning Environment was very useful. ivebeen able to take away lots of information and strategies to use in the classroom.

Marianne Thurm

Brookhaven School

Structuring Learning to support students with ADHD course was a vital refresher, some useful strategies and resources shared. My first OLP training course, I found this very useful.

Jonathon Purdey

St Paul's CE primary

Structuring Learning to support students with ADHD was really useful and informative. some good tips and strategies that I will put to use.

Sue Bardsley

St Mary's CofE

Structuring Learning to support students with ADHD was very useful, I feel I have a better understanding.

Gemma Merten

Sunny Bank Primary

Mental Health First Aid course was useful and informative. All activities relevant, enjoyable and very useful. lots of useful resources to take back and share with staff.

Lucy Kildunne

Spring Lane School

Mental Health First Aid course was extremely detailed and informative. I feel i have learnt a great deal to support my role further. I am privileged to work in a forward thinking trust. So many useful strategies to embed from the topics covered.

Sharon Marshall

Unsworth Primary School

Mental Health First Aid course was very informative and interesting.. I feel like ive learnt a lot and can use this to help me in my role. Clear and engaging delivery of training.

Lisa Griffiths

Springside Primary

Neurodiversity in EY course very useful and informative delivered clearly. I will take away when a child is seeking help and different ways to communicate and help them seek help in different ways.

Melissa Rohman

Elton Primary School

Neurodiversity in EY course was very useful- great understanding and delivering of information. I will take away a greater understanding of the child's needs and how they are feeling.

Jennifer Hedley-Duffell

Hoyle Nursery

Neurodiversity in EY course offered helpful tips to support children with similar needs. Very Useful

Natalie Swindell

St Hilda's

Strategically thinking about Resource Provision course the focus on the TEACCH approach was really supportive and useful. • More TEACCH training for staff would be great !! • A "lead" for RP's in Bury is needed.

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Strategically thinking about Resource Provision course was very useful, excellent knowledge and resources shared.• Always provides challenging questions to encourage thinking about our own practice.

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Strategically thinking about Resource Provision course offered lots of ideas that I am going to take back and implement. Great ideas to help us develop structure. • Excellent!

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Neurodiversity in EY course was very useful, boundaries and structure are key. The questions to ask when behaviours start. Will take away "The Adult Approach", Building rapport and relationships.

Karen Tomlinson

Fairfield Primary School

Literacy across the curriculum - very informative for supporting EAL students. will take away dyslexia friendly marking - students wont feel disheartened.

Claudia Codres

Philips High School

Literacy across the curriculum - very useful and a wide range of strategies to support students literacy especially dyslexia. Will take back a wider bank of tools. Great venue, Oak LP Outreach !!

SauMai Rawcliffe

The Derby High School

Literacy across the curriculum - lots of practical ideas and resources to support students with SEND and lower ability. Will take away dyslexia friendly resources MYON.

Beckie Davison

Hazel Wood High

TA Drop in was a good experience, I feel I have taken away the techniques used in LINC and the strategies the teachers use.

Anonymous

TA Drop in was very useful particular time in LINC. Also good to see different classrooms.and ways of managing behaviour. The children were all calm and happy learning.

Anonymous

TA Drop in at Unsworth Primary School, learnt new strategies to try with SEN children. ideas on activities and resource for children who need extra support. Amazing school, great teachers, lovely accessible and enhanced classrooms. Very welcoming

Anonymous

TA drop in at Unsworth Primary School, great to be in a different environment and observe strategies. There are different methods that can be applied to reinforce teaching strategies already enforced.

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TA drop In I found very useful, I will look into Attention Autism how to structure your day. Learnt so much today..

Jill Almond-Read

St Andrew's CE Primary

Fantastic lots of useful information to take back to school. I will look into Attention Autism and communication book. really enjoyed my visit and picked up loads of ideas..

Carly Tennant

St Andrew's CE Primary

Generative AI to support SALT - Extremely useful and could see the benefit of using the AI platforms to support SALT and for teaching and learning to differentiate work for students. The training provided today has already been used and explored.

Angela Hurst

Elms Bank School

Generative AI to support SALT- It was interesting to see how it could be utilised in different ways. For example, specific interest texts or images created to engage ASD learners.I am looking forward to collaborating and attending more.

Claudia Fisken

Crosshill School

SEND Review, All requests and instructions were clear and reasonable. Reviewers were very friendly and respectful and gave a professional review without being overly critical or judgemental. Clear guidelines to follow, constructive and helpful feedback.

Zevi Katz & Yehuda Saudners

Manchester Mevista

Thank you to both Nicola and Harriet for the AET Training. It was a great day and all of the staff came away with some great ideas and fresh outlook on how we can support these children - just what we needed! I look forward to working with you again !

Rhys Jones

Wesley Methodist Primary School

SEND review report recommendations are really helpful in helping us improve. This has been a supportive and constructive process. We are really grateful !!

Rabi Katz

Manchester Mesivta School

TA drop in - very useful and gave me a few ideas to use in my setting. I have learnt that if children loose focus in lesson time, to give them a break.

Sadia Parveen

Holy Trinity Primary School

TA drop-in - very useful, I can see the ways support is given to SEND and could help towards our school SEN Children in mainstream school.

Alisha Sharpe

St Lukes Primary School

TA drop-in- very useful, thanks for the opportunity. I will take away MYON - reading level for non fiction and fiction books. Dyslexia Gold for spellings.

Anila Rashid

St Lukes Primary School

The AET Developing Play Module-I will use this knowledge to better understand my young people and support parents and colleagues to understand how strengths can be built on to support independence and learning. A really useful course, with great ideas.

Anonymous

Thanks for arranging such a great event! It was really useful to meet so many people. Please count us in for the next SENCO Solutions. It also has given me lots of food for thought for how we continue to develop links and cross working in the future

Lucy Oliver

Speech and Language Therapist

I just wanted to thank you all for todays meeting, it was great to be able to sit and collaborate about the provision and I’d like to thank Helena Grennan and Nicola Pemberton for the time, help and support so far, it is greatly appreciated.

Alex Dooley

Unsworth Primary School

The SENCO Solutions meeting was an expertly organised and run event, Nic – my congratulations to you and your splendid team

Cath Atherden

Service Lead SEND Support Bury Council

The SENCO Solutions meeting was a great day and it was fantastic to hear from the Heads of services about what they can support people in schools with going forward. Thank you for organising this, no mean feat. It is great to be working with you.

Tracy Hamilton-Hall

Whole Education Approach Co-ordinator Bury Young People’s Mental Health Support Team

Thank you for organising the SENCO Solutions event Nichola, it was so useful and really helps me keep my sanity to speak to other people involved with SEND.

Heather Birkett-Rothwell

St Michael’s R.C. Primary School

I just wanted to reach out today following the SENCO Solutions meeting to say what an excellent event it was. I'm sorry I couldn't stay, but the agenda and professional approach by you and your team was really impressive.

Stephen Holden

Interim Director of Education and Skills

Who's in Charge- The group gave me confidence to tackle issues and be consistent. Hearing other peoples stories made me feel less alone in situations.

Anonymous

Who's in Charge - The group helped me have clarity on how to approach behaviors. Tackle things one at a time and a framework for communication. Sharing discussions with the group was so helpful.

Anonymous

Amazing course with so many great ideas for my setting that I have used already and have had a great impact! Nicola is a great trainer and keeps you engaged throughout! I'm very new to working with children with autism and it really helped me.

Anonymous

The AET- EY Anxiety training helped me understand the importance of ensuring information on children should be clearly recorded so everyone working around them is aware of their needs.

Anonymous

I attended the AET Anxiety Model Early Years led by Nicola Pemberton which was fabulous, very informative and led well. Thank you

Martine Ashton

St. Michael's RC Primary School

Very informative training. Leant a lot of new strategies we could implement into the setting.

Jennifer

Hoyle nursery school

I have been on a number of training opportunities provided by Oak LP Outreach and cannot recommend enough. The thoroughness of the training is fantastic and really helps you become the trainer too and think of many ways to support children.

Paige Wilde

Tiddlywinks Nursery Group

How to enable other staff to understand autism. I will cascade this to all staff at my school and look at practices that will be useful for certain individuals and a wider benefit. Impactful and ready to deliver to settings. Lots of valuable information

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Read Our Latest Reviews

St Peters Primary November 2023

Prior to the recent OakLP Outreach school evaluation review with St Peters Primary School in relation to their SEND Provision, the Outreach team discussed priorities that the school may wish to focus on and the various Support packages available through Outreach on how they could help St Peters. Steve Wedgeworth and Katie Cheadle from St Peters thought this was very useful in helping them to decide on priorities for their SEND provision.

Following a visit to Elms Bank School by St Peters they stated that Laura Baker and Dave Herbert were very supportive and gave clear feedback and recommendations on the day as to how to improve SEND Provision. A comprehensive report was provided which was extremely helpful in highlighting their next steps.

Discussed were future training/CPD requirements and the outcome was:

Autism training for staff

 SENCo to visit the Outreach Team as per Spring Term One for All offer to discuss strategic priorities for SEND/changes to policy and practice/classroom environment.      

TAs to visit Elms Bank/Unsworth Primary to work alongside other TAs in the Spring  Term One for All TA Development Drop-in sessions.

Tottington Primary School July 2023

Prior to the recent OakLP Outreach school evaluation review with Tottington Primary School in relation to their SEND Provision, the Outreach teams audit formatting was very clear with what they wanted to look at and the timings or what/when was helpful to structure the day.

Following the visit to Elms Bank School by Tottington Primary School, Michaela Benz commented that the experience was very positive and a supportive atmosphere enabling good constructive discussions, where sharing ideas happened in the moment and where the Outreach team drew out areas of development and good practical ideas to build on.

The comprehensive report was very clear with clear areas/ideas to develop as well as highlighting our strengths. It has given us a clear structure for CDP which Tottington are looking forward to developing and building their practice.

Discussed were future training/CPD requirements and the outcome was:

 Discussion with Elms bank SENCo to look at provision mapping, universal practice.

 Enabling environments and practical strategies for adaptive teaching

SENCO Support Surgery – SEMH Spring 2023

• Supportive environment! 
• Classroom visits great opportunity 
• Case study information thorough 
• All enjoyable, would love to stay all day. 
• Great strategies to try.
• Great to see how resources and ideas are used in practise in the classrooms here. 
• Great to see resources within the classroom. 

“Loved seeing the classes and all the fabulous structures in place. It stands out how consistent all the staff are. Just GREAT.”

• Good to have opportunities to discuss with colleagues and get KS3/4 perspective. 
• Lovely calm and engaging environment. 
• Wonderful workstations and visual support. 

Alex Dooley, Unsworth Primary 

St Gabriel’s December 2022

ST GABRIEL'S DECEMBER 2022

A visit was undertaken by the Head and SENDCo to Elmsbank School to gather ideas regarding our SEDN provision and the rising number of SEMH and ADHD issues. 

• Activities undertaken 
• Leadership meeting 
• Visit to Inspire and Nurture provisions 
• Lesson observation (20 mins). 

KEY FINDINGS/STRATEGIES TO ADOPT/CONSIDER
  1. Trauma / ACE training for all staff – adopt and embed into school CPD calendar
  2. January CPD to remind all staff of expectations of unconditional positive regard and anxiety-reducing questioning techniques for instance.
  3. SEND provision (room, furniture and expectation) to have significant investment. Individual learning pods, break out areas to be in place for September 2023. Further visits by SEND team to Elmsbank re strategies used and resources.
  4. Re-evaluate teaching strategies in SEND and lessons during transition periods to include; 
    • Walking breaks with TAs
    • Shorter lesson times for ADHD students
    • Success-based starter activities
    • Patterns of learning for a nurture provision to settle students into well-established routines
  5. Re-evaluate where SEND provision is in the building and whether students transitioning back to mainstream should be doing so much more slowly and only into certain buildings to avoid anxiety. 
  6. Adopt a similar model to nurture pathway for SEND provision area and inspire-informed teaching practises upon transition.
  7. Work collaboratively with primary feeders to ensure they are working towards transition out of primary provision to mainstream secondary or that we know exactly where they are on their journey.  

 

E-ACT Blackley October 2022

SUPPORT RATIONALE

E-ACT Blackley currently have a large number of children in EYFS with significant need, who are not accessing the reception curriculum and require highly individualised support for the progress of their EHCP targets. We are fortunate enough to have 9 staff members in Reception and 6 in Nursery to support. However, staff confidence in how to support these children is low and we require strategies, resources and advice on how to give the best provision so the children are making the best progress they can.

PRELIMENARY SUPPORT

We initially met with Orienne via a TEAMS call to establish our support needs. This allowed us to explore in depth the kind of support we may need. The coaching style of this meeting enabled us to reflect on our situation and formulate a strategy plan for moving forward. Orienne used the information gathered from this initial meeting to prepare a visit to Elms bank. The timetable for the visit was carefully planned to ensure we got the most out of the day based on the needs explored in the initial briefing.

VISIT TO ELMSBANK

The headteacher, Deputy SENCO and EYFS lead were all invited to spend the morning at Elms Bank. On arrival to Elms Bank, we were presented with a carefully designed plan for each member of staff to explore specific pathways and spend time with professionals who had the knowledge and experience to support our needs. This was a fully immersive morning and we were overwhelmed by the compassion, hard work and knowledge of the staff.

What we gained at Elms Bank was invaluable! The wealth of ideas and resources that staff shared with us was fantastic. We loved the basket tasks and the photos to really individualise the learning for the children (I've already passed this onto our nursery team who are making them as we speak!). We loved the creative lesson and this is something we can take forward immediately, with perhaps a new story and setting for children to explore each fortnight. This will be really helpful for development of language and social development. It was also amazing to see strategies, areas and resources to use for self-regulation. Many of our children do not have these strategies and end up in crisis, rather than it being drip fed to them. LOVED the 'hidden curriculum' This will be so beneficial for both our EYFS children and children across the academy too. It will also be great for children with ADHD. It was such a friendly and welcoming school.

Again, thank you so much for your support with the challenging situation we find ourselves in here at E-ACT Blackley. We truly feel that with the support and advice gained from your school, we can confidently move forward with help our most vulnerable children succeed.

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