SEND SUPPORT WHEN LEARNING FROM HOME
To all children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), their parents/carers and families.
Please find below further activities and advice to support your child during school closure or when your child is unable to attend school.
Supporting your child with SEND: learning at home (School Closure)
If you’re a parent/carer of a child with SEND who is struggling or feeling under pressure to help their child complete work set by schools, you can get help and advice here:
1. In the first instance, contact your child’s teacher at school to ask about how best to complete the work with your child. This can be done through showbie.
2. Contact the Inclusion Manager Miss Lalsing at school
3. The Special Educational Needs and Disability Support Service (SEND SS) staff are also available to help parents/carers, of children with SEND, who would like to talk about helping their child complete the work school has set or about learning from home. They can support after a referral from school has been submitted.
3. Blackburn with Darwen local offer also has services that you may be able to access
4. If your child has an SSA home learning packs can be sent home in addition to the showbie work.
The SEND team have also produced a whole host of helpful guidance to support your child’s learning at home which can be viewed below.
Top tips for supporting your child with home learning
Story for children with speech and language difficulties - Ted and Tess series
Advice and Support for Parents with SEND Children
1. Contact your class teacher or SENDco for help and advice.
2. Collect home learning packs from school
3. Work with your child for short periods and give them sensory or brain breaks
4. Keep calm
5. Use the strategies school have shared with you previously
6. Use concrete materials and visual supports
7. If your child has an EHCP look at section F of the plan. This guides you on the types of activities you could complete.
8. Remember each new day is a new start!