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helensend.bsky.social
#edusky 🌼 Teacher & Advocate 🌼 MAT SEND Lead 🌼 ADHD-tastic 🌼 MSc CAMH 🌼 Cake enthusiast 🌼 Co. Durham 🌼 Any info or resources I post can be found here ➡️ https://www.completesense.org/ 🔗🌳https://linktr.ee/helensend
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🔎💬SEND/INCLUSION SPEAKERS💬🔎 I am looking for a key note speaker for an INSET day at my Trust in Co.Durham. Date: 21st July #edusky #send #family

🌟GIVEAWAY🌟 OK let’s see if #EduSky UK likes a giveaway as much as EduTwitter did 🤔 🌟Like 🌟Follow 🌟Repost to win everything you see in the video. I’ll draw it as soon after 7pm 3/2/25 as I remember 😊

Absolutely 100% this ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Been working with teens excluded from school. All have #SEND (most commonly ASD/ADHD/DLD) but were either diagnosed too late or not even assessed until after they were excluded. It’s heartbreaking ‘81% of children with behavioural disorders have significant language difficulties’

The Education Select Commitee is keen to find out how SEND is affecting you and your school. They would also like to hear any solutions that has improved your child's experience of schooling. You can find the link to the consultation here: committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evi...

“When people get to 18, it’s like being sent in a tiny little boat, out to sea. It’s just terrifying.” A lot of nodding reading this from @johnharris1969.bsky.social #SEND

Get involved! We would love to hear from you. Please spare 5 minutes to complete this short feedback form (5 short questions). Click: forms.gle/KtrE3sgJotgm... Please share with any SEND and AP colleagues :) @laurendigest.bsky.social @georginadurrant.bsky.social @phoenixedsarah.bsky.social

Mapped nearly 1000 Alternative Provisions across the UK so far as part of a project. Thousands more to add I'm sure. Pop the web address of any you know below please and I'll add them on! Share please!

Anna Maxwell Martin talking about #SEND provision. www.instagram.com/reel/DBtqtbh...

Last week I wrote about the amazing buzz of working in alternative provision; this week we are seeking an additional learning coach to join the team. Apply here: www.wmjobs.co.uk/job/220205/l...

Are you the Board Chair of a MAT, SAT or maintained school/federation? I especially want to hear from you for my doctoral research into the relationship between the chair and the executive leader. Please spare me 10 mins and follow the link app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/lincoln/a-...

Great online training from NASEN/Whole School #SEND on positively responding to increasing complexity in our mainstream schools. #sendfamily

#Ofsted inspectors will speak to schools and families this spring to find out why children with SEND are not in schools and how their needs are being met

The new #SENDCONF25 website is now live with updated information on keynotes and workshops. Don't forget to book your tickets - last year's conference was completely sold out two weeks before the event. #SEN #SENDCO #Inclusion www.sendconference.org

Morning 👋 This resource might be helpful for planning new school routes, or school trips etc... It's aim is to reduce the anxiety of the unknown, and build independence, as well as estimating how long things take. Help yourself 😊 via link on my profile #SEND #SENDfamily #EduSky #uked

ADHD, Girls & Adolescence www.completesense.org/information-...

"Oh, what a shame you're 'just a children's bookshop." We hear this all too often. 📚 Children and teens deserve spaces and shops for them 📚 Children's and YA books change lives. It's not a shame we're a children's bookshop. It's a beautiful thing 💕

Devoured this in one sitting. A must-read for MAT SEND folk. Thank you @nataliepacker.bsky.social and @davidbartram.bsky.social

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,156,265!

I probably should've tagged this to reach more teachers/ people in schools. Please help answer a quick question if you can spare 30 seconds :-) #UKEd #ChatChemistry #EduSky #REd24 (that's a cheeky tag to reach lots of teachers! Sorry :-) )

Hooray! Keanu Reeves is following me. Wondered when he'd show up.

Looks brill!

Hello! What should I be reading (blog, thread, other) and who should I be connecting with to focus on improving attainment at A-LEVEL? General and subject specific strategies welcome. Thanks for any RTs or signposts!

The results of Ofsted Big Listen are in. Full report here: www.gov.uk/government/c... I've not read it all properly, but will after work. Highlighted actions for #SEND #SENDFamily folk are... #edusky #uked

@ofstednews.bsky.social has published their Big Listen response: www.gov.uk/government/c...

Team GB Paralympic swimmer and newly-qualified teacher, Maisie Summers-Newton, has won two gold medals! 🥇 Whilst defending her 100m breaststroke title, Maisie set a Paralympic record. She also completed her teacher training degree whilst preparing for this year's Games 👏. #edusky #eduskyprimary

Level of back to school denial... Clue 1: Large bag of Haribo bought and woofed in 3 minutes Clue 2: Built little trolley, cleaned little trolley, cleared out and organised all lady stuff, added to trolley, rearranged x 3

www.tes.com/magazine/new... #send #sendfamily #edusky

💙👂🍭Had many things I should have done today @edusky.bsky.social, but had a sudden whim this morning to start a podcast. So literally just did that! #teachersky #teacherwellbeing #sencosky #TheWellbeingLady spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/KSLN9xrCxMb

These letters do cover a significant part of the parental experience. The failure of mental health services and the endless fight for recognition of physical, unalterable disabilities is the day to day of SEND parents up and down the country. Also, just begging for an education… #SEND #disability

Very much enjoying the coverage of boccia in the Paralympics. If you want to find out more here is a piece on the boccia superstar David Smith. olympics.com/en/news/para...

Join me 2-4pm for an ORRsome Sunday where anything goes here on Real Life Radio UK realliferadio.uk