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Next Event: 10 January 2025 1-4.30pm Reviewing curriculum and assessment from a special educational needs and disability (SEND) perspective


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Reviewing curriculum and assessment from a special educational needs and disability (SEND) perspective
Our next seminar will be in person and online on Friday 10th January from 1pm – 4.30pm  
Room at UCL to be confirmed.

 

Our speakers are: Gary Aubin, Peter Imray, Richard Rieser and one more tbc.
They will be considering the following:
  • What would an inclusive curriculum be like from the point of view of learners with SEND?
  • What would an inclusive assessment system be like from the point of view of learners with SEND?
  • What is worth learning and assessing?
  • How might we imagine things differently?
Please follow this link to book an in-person place.

 

Please email Julie.wharton@winchester.ac.uk if you intend to join on Teams.
Speaker biographies
Gary Aubin is the author of The Lone SENDCO, a handbook of 300 questions and answers for busy SENDCOs. His second book, The Parent’s Guide to SEND, is being released in early 2025.
He leads on a national SEND School Improvement programme with Whole Education, supporting schools and MATs to drive a whole-school approach to supporting pupils with SEND.
Gary is the Education Endowment Foundation’s SEND Associate. In this role, he has worked extensively on sharing the evidence base behind high-quality teaching for SEND, as well as advised on the development of the SENCO NPQ.
As a Consultant, Gary has spoken internationally, advised the BBC, written content for the National Institute of Teaching and given talks to hundreds of Trust, Local Authority and school audiences.
Gary led on SEND provision for a Multi Academy Trust of 10 primary and secondary schools for several years. He is a secondary teacher, former primary and secondary SENDCO and former secondary Head of Year. Gary also authors the SENDMattersUK blog.
Peter Imray has been involved in the education and welfare of children, young people and adults with learning difficulties for over 35 years as a teacher, school leader, trainer, writer and coach. For most of this time he was employed by The Bridge School, an outstanding school for children and young people aged 2-19, with severe learning difficulties, profound and multiple learning difficulties and/or autism, in Islington, North London, and was Head of the Bridge School’s Training and Consultancy Service from its inception in 1997 until 2012. Since then, he has been working as a freelance, particularly concentrating on writing and editing specialist curriculum materials for Equals, a UK based not-for-profit charity.
The areas of profound, complex, severe and moderate learning difficulties are very specialist areas, making up less than two per cent of the whole school population, and perhaps for that reason their needs can often get overlooked in national educational initiatives. Peter has always sought to take the line that these learners have different and quite unique ways of learning, and understanding the nature of their learning difficulty is the key to successful educational provision.
Richard Rieser is a disability campaigner and expert in inclusion. He is the managing director of World of Inclusion Ltd and is an expert disabled international equality trainer, consultant, film maker and writer and teacher.
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Save the date – 10 January 2025


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Our next SEN Policy Research Forum event will take place on 10 January 2025 (not 6 December as previously advertised). Apologies for any inconvenience.

The focus will be on curriculum. More details about the speakers and venue, together with booking details, to follow.

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1–4pm on Friday 21st June 

Re-engaging with education: The causes, risks and implications of disengagement from education, and how we might do things differently.

Venue: University College London. The seminar will be held in the Drama Studio, which is situated on Level 1 of the main UCL Institute of Education building, at 20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL.


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You are warmly invited to our next free SEN Policy Research Forum Seminar

Re-engaging with education: The causes, risks and implications of disengagement from education, and how we might do things differently.

Our speakers are:
Ellie Costello, Director, Square Peg
Dr Ian Thompson, Co-Principal Investigator: Excluded Lives: The Political Economies of School Exclusion, University of Oxford
Steve Chalke, Founder, Oasis Charitable Trust
Kerrigen Marriner, Head of Behaviour and Attendance Service, London Borough of Tower Hamlets

The coverage/aims of the session:

In the light of the government’s recent ‘attendance counts’ campaign, this seminar aims to explore the following questions:
To what extent does the government’s Attendance Counts campaign acknowledge and address the underlying issues that lead to persistent absence?
What are the causes of disengagement from education?
What are the implications of this disengagement from education?
How might we imagine things differently?

Please follow this link to sign up: https://onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/ucl-institute-of-education-b14/ioe-phd-centre-for-inclusive-education-ka7/ka7-sen-policy-research-forum-seminar-re-engaging-with-education

We hope to see you there.

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