Mrs Michelle Tucker

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, (SEND), Co Ordinator, Mental Health Lead and Inclusion Lead

Mrs Tucker is the SEND Co Ordinator, Mental Health Lead and Inclusion Lead for our school. She works closely with the class teachers and teaching assistants to ensure that all children with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities are identified and that the right support and provision is in place for the pupils. Mrs Tucker gained the SENDCO Award in 2018 and is a member of the School's Senior Leadership Team. She is a specialist in Social Communication Difficulties and Autistic Spectrum Disorder and has previously worked in Special Schools.  She has extensive working knowledge of how to support a wide range of other SEN issues too and is the class teacher in the Small Specialist Class (SSC).

Mrs Tucker helps staff to develop intervention groups and targeted activities to support children in school, she helps to complete assessments of children's needs through observations and uses screening tools for issues such as dyslexia and sensory processing disorders. Mrs Tucker also helps to provide information and activities for parents of children with SEND to use to support their children at home and arranges for specialist support from other agencies such as Speech and Language Therapists, Special Educational Needs Advisory Service (SENAS), Occupational Therapists where appropriate. All referrals to other agencies are done using the service referral form and parents permission is always sought in the first instance for this.

Mrs Tucker also can support families and if families feel that they are in need of additional support from other agencies and a referral to Trafford's Early Help Team can be completed with the family. This means that the family is further supported by other professionals that the Early Help Team feel they would benefit from, such as parenting courses. If identified that it is needed by the Early Help Team, parents and carers will be allocated a family support worker to work closely with the family in the home. 

Mrs De Fouw is our Assistant SENDCO and is currently completing her NPQ for SENCO's. Mrs De is supporting pupils and staff in the Early Years and supporting Mrs Tucker with referrals. We are really pleased to have the support of Mrs De, as she has a wealth of knowledge and experience and has previously worked in Specialist Settings. 

If you have any concerns about your child's development or feel that you require some support please contact the school office on 0161 962 1828 and ask to speak to Mrs Tucker or email sen@wellfieldinfants.com.

Trafford Local Offer

As part of the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Code of Practice 2015, Local Authorities have a duty to provide a ‘Local Offer’. This means that each Local Authority is responsible for publishing information about provision they expect to be available in their area for children and young people from 0 to 25 years of age who have Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities.

The Local Offer helps children, young people and their parents to understand both support and services they can expect from a range of local agencies. This offer must include both local provision and provision outside the area that the local authority expects is likely to be used by children and young people with Special Educational Needs and /or Disabilities for whom they are responsible.

The Local Offer has two key purposes:

To provide clear, comprehensive and accessible information about the support and opportunities available.
To make provision more responsive to local needs and aspirations by directly involving children and young people with SEND, parents and carers, and service providers.

The Local Offer forms a significant part of the SEN Code of Practice and focuses on statutory duties for local authorities. The Local Offer is what goes on every day to support children and young people with SEN and how we ensure quality around this. This includes what we expect to be available in schools, colleges and other educational provision.

Below is a link to Trafford's Local Offer:

Trafford useful links to Support Parents:

Trafford Sleep Service

If you have any concerns about your child's sleep and need further support and advice, please click on the link below to access Trafford Sleep Services. 

Trafford Sensory Occupational Therapy Services

If you have concerns over any sensory processing needs your child may be having there is some useful advice and online workshops to access, using the link below:

Links to Support Eating in Young Children. 

Parent Courses

Neurodiversity Support and Advice

Toileting Advice for Parents and Carers

Links for Parents to Access for Speech & Language Therapy Advice and Support.

SUPPORTING CHILDREN'S  SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL WELL BEING

EMOTIONAL LITERACY SUPPORT (ELSA)

Mrs Ange De Fouw is a trained Emotional Literacy Support Assistant. She provides small group work for children who have been identified as needing support in a range of different areas, such as; self regulation, expressing their needs and emotions, self-esteem. Mrs De supports pupils from Nursery to Year Two who have been identified as needing her support. 

The Zones of Regulation

As a whole school approach,  we use The Zones of Regulation to support children identifying and understanding different emotions and developing strategies to use to help them regulate their emotions. We refer to this in school as their 'toolkit.' The Zones of Regulation is linked to the characters from 'Inside Out.' 

HEALTH SUPPORT

Individual Health Care Plans

All children in our school with an identified Health need have an Individual Health Care Plan drawn up to ensure that staff have the right information about a child's needs and how to care for them. This plan is put together in consultation with the child's parents, key health professionals, our SENDCo - Mrs Tucker, and the child's class teacher and is reviewed on a regular basis. We ask parents and carers to inform us about any health needs their children may have on our admission form.

Health Visitors and the School Nursing Service

Our Nursery children come under the Health Visitors' team. The Health Visitors in our area now carry out health and development checks with two year olds. They also provide advice and support to parents and carers relating to a range of areas relating to children's development and health and can do referrals to other heath professionals. Our school works in close partnership with this service. In order for us to support our pupils as effectively as possible it is always useful for us to know who each child's Health Visitor is and we ask for this information on our Nursery admissions forms.

All children from Reception upwards come under the School Nursing Service. This service carries out health checks in school such as hearing tests and height/ weight checks and they are also responsible for administering and immunisations for pupils too. The school nurse can help with referrals to health professionals such as Paediatricians and Occupational Therapists. They can also support parents and carers on issues relating to their children's health such as sleep issues and incontinence issues. Parents can get in contact with the school nursing team by speaking to Mrs Tucker (SENDCO) or by requesting a call back via the school office.