Resources and Publications
The Whole School SEND consortium regularly publishes resources to support you with all aspects of SEND. These include our SEND Review Guides and Frameworks, leaflets for parents, practical resources to support your work in educational settings, resources for specific contexts such as CPDL webinar recordings and more.
As a member of nasen and the Whole School SEND Member Community, you have free access to all of our resources – scroll through, use the filters or search for a specific resource.
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Latest Resources
MindEd Resources
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
Downloadable resources about the MindEd programme.
Teaching is a lifetime of learning
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
To a great extent, good teaching for pupils with SEND, is good teaching for all.
Self-assessment of needs and reasonable adjustment plan
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
This plan is owned by you. It should enable you to share your strategies for managing your learning needs with those around you, but it is your decision to share it and cannot be shared by others without your express permission.
The teacher I think I am affects the teacher I can be. I am a teacher of everyone.
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
If you are asked to describe your teacher identity, you may find this difficult to articulate. However, if someone asks you what you think is important to the role of a teacher, you would probably be able to give an answer without too much delay.
The language we use
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
The language we communicate through our words and our actions is a beacon for the learners we teach.
Teaching needs adaptive expertise now more than ever
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
The pandemic has opened up the debate about what it means to be vulnerable in education and who might ‘struggle to learn’.
Sharing expertise
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
A range of noticing; instructional approaches and adaptive strategies for the scenarios
Much Ado About Nothing
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
KS3 lesson planning ideas for a unit on Shakespeare’s
The Importance of Literacy Education for All – The Teach Us Too Perspective.
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
A video about "Teach Us Too", a charity promoting the right for all children to be taught to read and write, whatever their label or diagnosis.
Introduction: A permeated approach
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
This slide deck can be used by ITT Providers with their teams of ITE Tutors and school mentors to show how adopting a permeated curriculum approach to teaching about special educational needs as part of ITT is needed.
Complex Scenario Hannah
- General
- 14 Dec 2021
A case study about supporting Hannah to work independently.
Calthorpe Academy Pastoral and Safeguarding Pack
- General
- 17 Nov 2021
A pastoral and safeguarding pack created by Calthorpe Academy.
Webinar: Leadership of SEND: Building a Culture of Collective Responsibility
- Webcasts
- 17 Nov 2021
This series of webinars aimed at leaders will explore effective leadership of SEND, including how to use data strategically, the current inspection landscape and fostering a culture of collective responsibility.
Frank Wise School Assessing Intellectual and Reasoning Skills
- General
- 28 Oct 2021
This document from Frank Wise school offers the rationale behind the assessments, assessment pro forma and a list of suitable resources to deliver them with.
Frank Wise School Post-16 Curriculum Framework
- General
- 28 Oct 2021
This document outlines Frank Wise School's approach to context based education in the community, how it links to assessment and how it is evaluated.
The SEND Code of Practice for Special School Governors and Trustees
- General
- 28 Oct 2021
This presentation, created by Whole School SEND National Coordinator Erica Wolstenholme, explores and presents the SEND Code of Practice and national SEND data specifically for special school governors and trustees.
Frank Wise School 2019 Curriculum Framework
- General
- 28 Oct 2021
Frank Wise has been judged to be ‘Outstanding’ several times and it is the Curriculum Framework which sits as the foundation to that success. The document outlines the school’s approach to Curriculum, how it links to assessment and how it is evaluated.
Webinar: The Inclusive Secondary Classroom
- Webcasts
- 20 Oct 2021
This sequence of webinars is an opportunity to reflect on and explore the components that support the inclusive secondary classroom.
Webinar: Getting to Grips with Great SEND Governance
- Webcasts
- 15 Oct 2021
This webinar series is designed as an accessible course for all those in leadership and governance to understand their roles and responsibilities, audit and evaluation mechanisms, and best practice examples in relation to SEND governance.
A Guide to Whole School SEND Resources for Early Career Teachers
- Webcasts
- 14 Oct 2021
This short video walks through some key resources, all available from Whole School SEND (WSS), which may be of use to Early Career Teachers.