St Mary's CofE Primary School
Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND)
Here at St Mary's, our Special Educational Needs and Disability Coordinator is Mrs A Leitch.
She is available Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons 1:30 - 3:30pm if you wish to discuss a SEND issue. Please contact Mrs Leitch through the school office on 0161 370 3948.
To see how we identify and meet the needs of SEND children in our school, please read our policy and SEND information report.
SEND policy
SEND Code of Practice
SEND information report
Activities and resources to access during school closure
Below, are a number of activities and links to support your child within each of the four broad areas of need. Many of them require printers but if you do not have one, you could copy them down onto paper or make your own similar ones.
Resources to support children as they return to school
Supporting your child with additional needs during this time
Story books to help children understand the Coronavirus pandemic
Social, Emotional and Mental Health
Communication and Interaction
You can also utilise games you may have at home such as 'Guess Who' that require your child to describe features or give explanations.
The Communication Trust have many links to different resources for parents and offer some free training.
Colourful Semantics also have a wealth of resources for free to support early language and sentence construction
Physical and or sensory
To develop finger flexibility and fine motor skills you could search for 'dough disco' on you tube and join in with the videos.
If you want to work on your child's touch typing skills, you can access games on the following websites:
Dance mat - bbc.co.uk
Keyboard climber 2 - typing.com
Keyman - typingmaster.com
