Blogs by OnLineTraining
Building SENCO Capacity: How Whole-School SEND Training Reduces Workload and Improves Outcomes
Author Maria Buttuller
Date 1st Apr 2025
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The Unsustainable SENCO Role If you're a SENCO, you’re probably familiar in feeling that you’re managing the workload of three full-time staff, with a dozen hats/roles to juggle in any given day. ...
Connecting the dots: making SEND training work for everyone
Author Maria Buttuller
Date 9th Jan 2025
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"What changed everything for us wasn't bringing in more training - it was creating spaces for staff to share what they already knew," reflected a Year 6 teacher. "There's so much expertise in our scho...
What SEND pupils really want from schools: Insights from the classroom
Author Maria Buttuller
Date 9th Jan 2025
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Recent conversations with SEND pupils across UK schools have revealed powerful insights into what makes a real difference in their education. While teachers and staff regularly discuss support strateg...
SEN and the great outdoors: learning outside the classroom
Author Maria Buttuller
Date 3rd Feb 2022
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In support of childrens mental health week, we talk to Brenda Leonard, an animal-assisted therapist and owner of Apple Tree Farm who shares with us, the benefits of animal assisted therapy sessions and outdoor learning for children with SEND.
Access to learning: high-quality teaching practice and targeted professional training in SEND
Author Siobhan Duvigneau
Date 1st Nov 2021
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Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Ofsted carried out a qualitative case study (1) of 7 mainstream primary and secondary schools in the UK. The purpose of this research was to determine how the needs of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) were being met, and whether support approaches varied between education providers.
Identifying and supporting speech, language and communication needs
Author Maria Buttuller
Date 31st Dec 2019
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Problems with speech and language are the most common developmental difficulties that children encounter. Our latest blog investigates how to Identify and support these children children in your school.