Any child who has specific gaps in their understanding of a subject/area of learning may receive support through specific small groups work. This group may be delivered in the classroom or outside. It may be delivered by a teaching assistant who has had training to deliver these groups or, most often, a teacher. These are often called intervention/booster groups by schools.

• Your child’s teacher will have carefully checked on your child’s progress and will have decided that your child has a gap in their understanding/ learning and needs some extra support to close the gap between your child and their peers.

• The class teacher will plan group sessions for your child with targets to help your child to make more progress.

• A Teacher/ Teaching Assistant, will deliver these small group sessions using the teacher’s plans, or a recommended programme.

Intervention groups are used consistently throughout Nursery and Reception for targeting children with areas of concern. If parents have a concern they are welcome to discuss this at any time initially with their Childs Key person or class teacher and the SEN Team.

Interventions in Early Years:

• 1-1 and small group Speech and language support

• Speed sounds intervention groups. ( Reception)

• Extra reading – 1-1 ( Reception)

• Handwriting groups – multisensory - Dough Disco.

• Social skills group

• Listen with Lucy

• Contrastive Pairs

• Kim's Game

Early Years Resources

The SEN budget is directly devolved to the school. Emphasis is placed on providing a broad, balanced, creative and differentiated curriculum; therefore money is allocated to provide a range of resources. These are allocated according to need and include ancillary help, speech and language therapist, teacher time and materials and ICT support.

Resources currently available within classrooms are:

• Sloping boards for writing

• Pencils and pencil grips

• Different types of scissors

• Outdoor learning

• Role-play areas

• Gross and fine motor skills equipment

• Allotments and Poly tunnel

• Visual timetables

• Speech and language resources.

• Ruth Miskin phonics flash cards and speed sound charts

• ICT – specific Early years programmes.