Whole School SEND webinar recordings

Embracing Inclusion: Supporting learners with Down Syndrome and other learning disabilities in the mainstream classroom

In the webinar, Sharon will discuss how to work with families to support the inclusion of learning-disabled pupils, including those with the most complex needs, in a mainstream classroom.

Webinar: Teaching for Mastery in Maths

This webinar will provide an introduction to how a Teaching for Mastery approach can foster learning for all students.

Webinar: Positively responding to increasing complexity in our mainstream schools – collaborative learning opportunities to inform strategic and systemic thinking

This webinar explores the current context around pressures on mainstream schools due to the shortage of special school placement and how schools can collaboratively and positively respond as system leaders.

Webinar: Their future in our hands – Navigating school to career transitions: A webinar for Primary, Secondary and College Educators Part 2

Webinar: Their future in our hands – Navigating school to career transitions: A webinar for Primary, Secondary and College Educators Part 1

Positive beginnings: Supporting children with SEND at the start of their school journey

This webinar will explore support for children entering mainstream school.  The session will cover early identification of need, processes for positive support and inclusive strategies to ensure that needs are met as children prepare for transition.

How to ensure balance between the role of SENCO and personal wellbeing.

Enhancing SENCO wellbeing by managing workload and leading through influence. Delivered by Jean Gross, Rebecca Gonyora and Erica Wolstenholme

Meeting increasing Social Emotional, Mental Health (SEMH) needs within mainstream settings

In this webinar we will explore the increase in SEMH needs and how we can meet the challenge of assessing needs and providing targeted support within school.

Webinar: How to develop a curriculum which is ambitious and accessible for all at each age and stage

This webinar recording explores why it is important for all children to have access to an ambitious curriculum and how schools and colleges can ensure that their curriculum is ambitious and accessible.

Webinar: Ensuring accurate identification of SEN in school and college settings

This webinar recording supports you in developing effective systems and processes to enable the early and accurate identification of SEN in your setting.  

Webinar: Is Ofsted a force for improving the education for all learners with SEND?

Malcolm Reeve shares practical tools and templates to help schools reflect on SEND as they prepare for an Ofsted inspection.

Webinar: Introduction to the SEND Development Pathways

This webinar walks you through a new resource produced by Whole School SEND and Sea View Trust: the SEND Development Pathways.

Webinar: Supporting Learners with Low-Incidence SEND

This session looks at how practitioners can support children and young people with Sensory Impairment or Physical Disability through the use of assistive technology to ensure all learners are able to achieve the best possible outcomes.

Webinar: Using the Engagement Model in Mainstream

This session focuses on the Engagement Model. The session provides an introduction to or reinforcement of the principles behind the model and looks at how it is implemented in a mainstream setting.

Webinar: Perfecting Preparation for Adulthood

Webinar: Leading CPD for Inclusive SEND Provision

Funded by the Department for Education, this series of three webinars explores evidence-informed, effective strategies that SENCOs and school leaders can use to build a culture of professional growth.

Webinar: Sharing Good Practice: Partnership Between Specialist and Mainstream Settings

This three-part series explores how partnerships between Specialist and Mainstream settings can be developed and used to benefit both and support all students with SEND.

Webinar: Beyond the School Gates: Exploring Opportunity and Aspiration into FE and Beyond

Webinar: SEND in Mainstream for Early Career Teachers and Beyond

This three-part webinar series supports teachers to develop their ability to effectively meet the needs of all SEND learners in your classroom, using the 5 Key Recommendations from the EEF’s SEN Support in Mainstream Schools Guidance Report.

Webinar: Introduction to the Teacher Handbook: SEND

In this webinar, lead authors Katherine Walsh and Amelie Thompson take participants through Whole School SEND's latest resource, the Teacher Handbook: SEND.

Webinar: Leadership of SEND: Building a Culture of Collective Responsibility

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.

Webinar: The Inclusive Secondary Classroom

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

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.

Webinar: Working with Parents, Carers and Families

This webinar series supports schools in developing and evaluating how they work with families to maximise engagement and outcomes.

Webinar: Developing an Inclusive, Accessible and Ambitious Curriculum

This three-part series aimed at secondary practitioners explores how to make the curriculum inclusive, accessible and ambitious for all pupils.

Webinar: The Inclusive Primary Classroom

This sequence of webinars is an opportunity to reflect on and explore the components that support the inclusive primary classroom.

Webinar: Early Identification and Intervention: Acting upon the Earliest Indicators of Need at Every Stage

This series focuses on the importance of early identification of students’ needs, including understanding identification methods, using assessment methods to develop learning-led strategies and building in the graduated approach.

Webinar: Practical Strategies for Supporting Speech, Language and Communication Needs

This series introduces the building blocks needed for communication and practical strategies for supporting children with Speech, Language and Communication Needs in the classroom.

Webinar: New to the SENCO Role: Understanding the role of the SENCO within a context of distributed leadership

This three-part webinar series, aimed specifically at new-in-post SENCOs, is an opportunity to understand the roles and responsibilities of the SENCO and to develop the role of the SENCO as a strategic leader.

Webinar: Preparation for Adulthood: High Aspirations Through All Stages of Education

Webinar: Developing a Shared Ownership of SEND

This webinar looks at developing a shared ownership of SEND using stakeholder voice in school improvement planning.

Webinar: Leading Governance for SEND: Using the Whole School SEND Governance Review Guide

This session will give a comprehensive overview of the WSS SEND Governance Review Guide to support governors with evaluating and improving SEND provision in their settings.

Webinar: Supporting Successful Transitions from Primary to Secondary School

This webinar explores key strategies that support effective transitions from Year 6 to Year 7 for pupils with SEND.

Webinar: Improving Outcomes for Disadvantaged Young People at SEN Support

This series of three webinars supports schools to develop an implementation plan to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children and young people at SEN Support.

Webinar: SLCN and DLD: What Every Teacher Needs to Know

This webinar will give a comprehensive introduction to speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) and Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), and explore how affected children and young people might present in the classroom.

Webinar: Preparing for Adulthood from the Earliest Years

Webinar: Deploying Specialists in Mainstream Settings to Improve Outcomes for Learners with SEND

This webinar will introduce the findings and key recommendations when mainstream schools look to commission and deploy specialists to improve SEND provision.

Webinar: Being A Research Engaged SENCO - Primary Focus

This is the final in a series of five webinars aiming to provide additional support to new-in-post SENCOs. The series outlines key elements of the SENCO role in this unique context.

Evaluation of a Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) pathway - Senior Leaders

This is an intermediate level webinar aimed at senior leaders in primary and secondary mainstream settings to help improve provision for students with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).

Webinar: Whole Class Reading - Access for All

This webinar will introduce participants to principles and practical strategies that can be used by teachers to ensure that English lessons improve oracy, develop vocabulary and improve reading outcomes for all learners.

Webinar: Empowering Staff to Provide SEN Support: The Role of Leaders

This webinar aims to support secondary SENCOs and all other leaders to empower teaching staff to effectively meet the needs of pupils at SEND Support.

Webinar: The graduated approach at the heart of distributed leadership for SEND

A webinar looking at distributed leadership, aimed at SENCOs, Headteachers and Senior Leaders, Governors and CEOs.

Webinar: Understanding the difference between SEND and Disadvantage in schools

A thought-provoking session based on evidence and experience which challenges the understanding of SEND and Disadvantage in schools.

Involving families in provision for students with DLD – SENCos

This is an intermediate level webinar aimed at SENCOs in primary and secondary mainstream settings to help improve provision for students with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).

Building effective practice to support students with DLD - Primary Teachers

This is an intermediate level webinar aimed at teachers in primary mainstream settings to help improve provision for students with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).

Building effective practice to support students with DLD - Secondary Teachers

This is an intermediate level webinar aimed at teachers in secondary mainstream settings to help improve provision for students with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).

Webinar: Inclusive Curriculum through the Ofsted Lens

In this recorded online conference, speakers including Professor Barry Carpenter, WSS National SEND Leader Malcolm Reeve and a representative from Ofsted explore how school leaders can implement an inclusive curriculum for all learners.

Webinar: PE, Inclusive Sport and Wellbeing

This webinar focuses on how to ensure your PE and school sport offer is Inspiring, Accessible and Meaningful for all your pupils during and post the national lockdown period.

Webinar: High-Quality Teaching - Targeting Areas of Need

This two-part webinar series will focus on how high-quality teaching, also known as quality-first teaching (QFT), can be targeted at identified areas of need.

Webinar: Inclusive Maths - Bridging the gap between abstract and concrete

This webinar focuses on recently updated KS1 and KS2 Maths guidance and introduces principles and practical strategies that can be used by teachers to ensure Maths lessons improve outcomes for all learners.

Webinar: Using data sources to inform best practice

Too often data collection is excessive, unreliable, confusing which gives staff less time with children; when used well data can have a profound and positive impact in SEND departments.

Webinar: Securing Good Transitions

Webinar: Inclusion in Action

The second session in our series on 'Every Teacher a Teacher of SEND, Every Leader a Leader of SEND'.

Webinar: Remote learning for students with SEND

This session will explore government guidance, expectations and the challenges we face in planning and delivering high-quality remote education for learners with SEND in both mainstream and specialist settings.

Webinar: Being a Research-Engaged SENCO - Secondary Focus

This is the fourth in a series of five webinars aiming to provide additional support to new-in-post SENCOs.

Webinar: SEND Policy in Practice

The first session in our series looking at 'Every Teacher a Teacher of SEND, Every Leader a Leader of SEND'.

Webinar: The SEND Review Process - Ensuring Impact for All

This webinar will provide guidance for delegates on how to ensure a review of SEND provision has whole school impact.

Webinar: The Safe and Successful Returns Handbook - How Are Things Going?

Following on from the successful reception of the Safe Returns handbook and introductory webinar, this session focuses on re-introducing the the Safe Returns handbook in the context of how are things now.

Webinar: High standards and an inclusive curriculum - Best Practice

A follow-up webinar continuing the exploration of how high-quality education for all can inform provision for those at SEND Support in mainstream settings.

Webinar: Monitoring and Managing Provision

The third in a series of five webinars aiming to provide additional support to new-in-post SENCOs.

Commissioning for a Speech, Language and Communication pathway

This is an introductory level webinar aimed at senior leaders in primary and secondary mainstream settings as part of the series on Developmental Language Disorder.

Webinar: Making Data Work

A webinar exploring how national identification data on SEND in England in 2020 and show how this can be used by schools to inform their own teaching approaches.

Identification and effective provision for pupils with Developmental Language Disorder

An introductory level webinar aimed at SENCOs in primary and secondary mainstream settings exploring Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).

Webinar: Developing sustainable professional learning models using a blended approach

A webinar exploring how to make the most of technology alongside expert input in the design and implementation of high-quality, sustainable, professional learning models.

Webinar: Solutions Circles for Staff and Pupil Wellbeing

This webinar will focus on the use of Solution Circles within the school context as a structured way of helping staff to discuss issues as a group and generate possible solutions.

Introduction to Developmental Language Disorder for Secondary School Teachers

This is an introductory level webinar aimed at secondary school teachers in mainstream settings, introducing Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).

Webinar: High standards and an inclusive curriculum for all

This webinar will look at how high-quality education for all can inform provision for those at SEND Support in mainstream settings.

Webinar: Using the Graduated Approach and SEN Support

This is the second in a series of five webinars aiming to provide additional support to new-in-post SENCOs.

Introduction to Developmental Language Disorder for Primary School Teachers

An introductory level webinar aimed at primary school teachers in mainstream settings, introducing Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).

Webinar: SEND in a Nutshell

An overview of the 'SEND in a Nutshell’ method of data analysis which helps senior leaders understand their school context within the regional and national picture and provides a starting point for whole-school development planning.

Webinar: The Evidence-Informed Teacher (Part 2)

A series of webinars for newly qualified and recently qualified teachers to explore inclusive teaching for children with SEND in mainstream schools.

Webinar: Autism and Inclusion

In this session you will hear from three young autistic advocates about their experiences of school and what lessons can be learnt for educators to improve provision for learners on the autism spectrum.

Webinar: Understanding and Identifying Areas of Need

Produced in conjunction with our consortium partners LLSENDCIC, this is the first in a series of five webinars aiming to provide additional support to new-in-post SENCOs.

Webinar: The Evidence-Informed Teacher (Part 1)

A series of webinars for newly qualified and recently qualified teachers to explore inclusive teaching for children with SEND in mainstream schools.

Webinar: New to the SENCO Role

A webinar for newly appointed SENCOs to provide you with key information as you take your first steps in leadership of SEND.

Webinar: Strategies to Support Students' Working Memory and Retention

This webinar will support staff with their understanding of working memory and practical strategies that can enhance students’ retention.

Webinar: Childhood Trauma - Supporting Healing and Recovery in Schools After Lockdown

This webinar session will introduce principles that can be used by teachers and school leaders to identify the signs that pupils have experienced trauma during lockdown.

Webinar: NQTs - Preparing for your first term in the current context

In this webinar you will be able to hear from an experienced SEND Leader on how your role can make a difference to the lives of all students and especially those with SEND.

Webinar: Recovery, Re-introduction and Renewal - A New Handbook for Schools on Successful Returns

A webinar introducing a new WSS resource: Recovery, Re-introduction and Renewal: A Handbook for Schools and Educational Settings Following Critical Incidents

Webinar: School Leaders - The importance of our own wellbeing to lead inclusive schools

A webinar designed specifically for Headteachers and Senior Leaders giving an overview of the professional obligation leaders maintain for their own wellbeing in order to effectively lead inclusive schools.

Webinar: Effective Use of the SENCO Deployment Guide

An introduction to best use of the SENCO Deployment Guide to ensure that their leadership of SEND is purposeful and progressive.

Webinar: How to plan for pupils with SEND to return to school

A webinar designed to help with transition in response to the Covid-19 situation and school lockdowns.

Webinar: Rebuilding Trust

The third webinar in our series: Returning to School and Making Use of Trauma-Informed Approaches

Webinar: Back to School - Successful Transition Through Parental Engagement

This webinar focuses on guidance to work and support parents during their child's transition back to school.

Webinar: Governor Accountability for Securing High-Quality Outcomes for Learners with SEND

A webinar aimed specifically at governors exploring how governors can help secure good outcomes for pupils with SEND.

Webinar: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe and What to Do When It Goes Wrong

The second session in our webinar series: Returning to School and Making Use of Trauma-Informed Approaches.

Webinar: Securing Success Following Lockdown - Behaviour Strategies

A webinar exploring how behaviour may present after Covid-19 and what strategies can be implemented to support pupils returning to school.

Webinar: Connection, community, relationships: social-emotional learning to rebuild after Covid-19

Delivered in partnership with Achievement for All, this webinar looks at developing the social and learning skills vital to successful learning.

Webinar: Five Key Considerations for Everyone's Wellbeing

This webinar presents the first session in a webinar series: Returning to School and Making Use of Trauma-Informed Approaches

Webinar: Transition for SEND pupils in mainstream settings

A webinar giving advice and ideas on how to support transition for pupils with SEND using materials produced by Whole School SEND.

Webinar: Introduction to the WSS Review Guides

An introductory session explaining how each guide can be used and applied to different settings.