Who are the SEMH Support
Team?
What are we here for?
Our remit is
to facilitate schools to manage and support
pupils with SEMH needs within their
environment.
How do you get our support?
• Referral process
• http://www.nyland-pri.swindon.sch.uk/aboutus/semh-support-team/
• Graduated response
What does our support cost?
• Schools pay £12.33 x the number of pupils on roll.
• For a one form entry school this equates to
approximately £2,600
• This money comes from the Government; the school
do not have to find extra money to engage our
support.
What does that money get you?
• Around 230 years of experience, from four
Outreach Workers, four Teachers, and a
Counsellor
What do we do? Activity
Write down all the possible underlying reasons
for pupils’ challenging behaviour.
Behaviour is no more!
The SEND Code of Practice 2014 identifies four broad areas of need:
• communication and interaction (this covers difficulty with
different aspects of speech, language or social communication);
• cognition and learning (this is where children and young people
learn at a slower pace than their peers, even with appropriate
differentiation, and covers moderate learning difficulties (MLD),
severe learning difficulties (SLD) and profound and multiple
learning difficulties (PMLD). It also includes specific learning
difficulties such as dyslexia, dyscalculia and dyspraxia);
• social, emotional and mental health difficulties (this covers
difficulties such as anxiety or depression, self-harming,
substance misuse, eating disorders or physical symptoms that
are medically unexplained. These difficulties may manifest
themselves in many ways including challenging, disruptive or
disturbing behaviour); and
• sensory and/or physical needs.
Hungry
Tired
Medication
identity
self image
Toileting issues
Being over protected
having too many boundaries
Safeguarding issues
not used to boundaries
Domestic abuse
attachment issue
Bullying
lack of social skills
Not understanding
Poverty
not being understood
Homelessness
Illness
lack of friendships
Bereavement
not feeling belonging
Parental separation
Divorce
low self esteem
Worries about Parents
Moving house
Parental health/mental health/substance misuse
New siblings
Step families
Trauma
high Parental/school expectations
ADHD, EAL, ASC, S&L, hearing, developmental delay
Pick one
• What might the child feel?
• How might they show these feelings?
• If you were feeling that way, what would you
need?
What do we actually do in schools?
• We work with staff, pupils, Parents and
families.
• We address needs at all levels:
whole school or key stage;
whole class;
groups – of pupils, Parents, families, staff;
individual pupils, staff or Parents.
Case study
How do we know how well we are
supporting you?
• Observations of the pupil at the beginning and
end of our support.
• Discussions and anecdotal feedback from the
child, staff and Parents.
• Scaling activities with child, staff and Parents.
• Numbers of exclusions reduced.
• Number of positive handling incidents reduced.
• Evaluation forms.
• EYFS assessments.
Tell us what you think
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What do you appreciate about what we do?
What do you want more of?
Anything we do which you don’t like?
What do we need to get better at?
Anything else we need to know?
• [email protected]
Thank you for
your time