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Active Slough

The Active Slough team aim to be the inspiration behind a healthier lifestyle for the local community through supporting our sports clubs, organisations, volunteers, charities and groups in delivering local sport and physical activities for all ages across the town. Our aim is to aid the development and enhancement of new and fun play, sport and physical activity opportunities all over Slough.

Emotional Wellbeing

Slough has committed to emotional wellbeing as one of their priorities for 2018/2019. There are a range of activities and services in place in and across Slough to support emotional wellbeing of our staff and students in school. We will be updating on this page as these projects evolve over the coming months.

Speech and Language Therapy Services for Children and Young People in Slough October 2018

Description

This article has been brought to you by Slough Borough Council's Commissioning, Partnerships and Performance Team, for the attention of Headteachers, SENCO's and Schools.

Commissioned Services

Slough Borough Council (SBC) commissions services including on behalf of schools to benefit from economies of scale.

Commissions include Sophos, Egress and SaLT. Contact: Service Lead for Commissioning, Partnerships & Performance, Rodney D'Costa:- rodney.dcosta@slough.gov.uk.

Family Information Service (FIS)

Slough Family Information Service (FIS) offers FREE impartial information and guidance about a wide range of services for children, young people and their families in response to statutory duty placed on local authorities.

Integrated Support Service (ISS)

ISS works with schools, colleges and other agencies to provide advice, guidance and support to ensure the needs of children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) are met within an educational context.

SEND Guidance Documents

High quality teaching: ‘Quality First Teaching’. QFT originates in the then DCSF’s guide to personalised learning published in 2008 which summarises its key characteristics as: Highly focused lesson design with sharp objectives, High demands of pupil involvement and engagement with their learning, High levels of interaction for all pupils, Appropriate use of teacher questioning, modelling and explaining, An emphasis on learning through dialogue, with regular opportunities for pupils to talk both individually and in groups, and An expectation that pupils will accept responsibility for their own learning and work independently.
Regular use of encouragement and authentic praise to engage and motivate pupils.

SENDCo Support

SENDCO Support for Schools | Slough Borough Council have successfully recruited a SENDCO School Effectiveness Officer. This post was created to support, up-skill and develop SENDCos at schools and to develop a SENDCo network forum for all Slough Schools.

SEND in Slough

National statistics show that up to 20% (14.4% in 2017) of all children/ young people have some level of SEND. Most children/young people with SEND attend a mainstream school and are supported by resources, which form part of the school’s core budget.