Primary National Strategy guidance for supporting pupils with special educational needs

Including all children in the literacy hour and daily mathematics lesson - Management Guide (Ref: DfES 0465/2002)
Guidance on:

inclusive teaching
how to audit and analyse current provision, make a needs assessment and plan future action
how to manage NNS and NLS intervention programmes
tracking back to earlier learning objectives in Maths and literacy
P levels
managing access strategies and promoting inclusive teaching styles
effective use of support: – how to review and evaluate current practice and plan more effective future provision
planning for pupils with SEN in literacy and numeracy: how to support teachers in addressing needs of children with SEN within their curriculum planning

Speaking, Listening, Learning: working with children who have special educational needs (Ref: DfES 1187-2005)
Package which complements Speaking, Listening, Learning: working with children in Key Stages 1 and 2:
Materials consist of a CD-ROM which includes guidance notes, example adaptations of teaching sequences, a video of an example lesson and accompanying posters.

Targeting support: choosing and implementing interventions for children with significant literacy difficulties - Management guidance (booklet)

Advice on how to review progress of children with literacy difficulties
Lists and descriptions of different literacy intervention schemes
Advice on how to make quantitative and qualitative self-evaluation of Wave 3 provision
Ideas for the implementation of intervention strategies

Targeting support: implementing interventions for children with significant difficulties in mathematics (Ref: DfES 1083-2005)

Outline of Wave 3 programme (Supporting children with gaps in their mathematical understanding – PNS: DfES 1168-2005)
Advice on how to make quantitative and qualitative self-evaluation of Wave 3 provision.

Learning and Teaching for children with special educational needs in the primary years (Ref: DfES 0321-2004 G DVD) Booklet and DVD

Structured as complement to Excellence and Enjoyment: Learning and Teaching in the Primary Years (Ref: DfES/0377/2003)
DVD provides video clips to assist in staff development on the following areas:
- Designing opportunities for learning: weekly planning
- Assessment for learning: involving children in mind-mapping and in IEP reviews
- Conditions for learning: staff talk about development of inclusive practice
- Inclusive teaching strategies: Y3 maths lesson
- Inclusive teaching strategies: Y2 literacy lesson
- Inclusive teaching strategies: Y4 Science lesson

Parents: Partners in learning – Guidance for schools (Ref: DfES 0413-2004 Date of issue: 09-2004)
Ofsted framework requires inspectors to assess contribution that parents and partners make to the school and to the pupils' learning. Guidance suggests schools provide a range of services and activities
Comprises:

Video - clips from a range of schools showing good practice in learning and teaching across KS1 and 2 and differing forms of effective use of parental support:
- PICL groups (Parent Involvement in their Children’s Learning) for under-fives
  family literacy session – Y2
- parent workshop with maths focus – Y4
- effective use of parents' support in classrooms – Y5
- parents' meeting re homework/support at home
- explaining writing targets – Y6
- parent film club
Guidance booklet providing information on:
- Importance of effective home-school partnerships
- How to go about developing and extending partnerships including a self-evaluation grid
- Practical ideas for working with parents and examples of good practice
- Guidance on using the video with parents

Partners in Learning
Information leaflet for parents providing general information

Supporting Pupils with Special Educational Needs in the literacy hour (Ref: DfEE 0101/2000)

Guidance to support pupils with specific needs in the daily mathematics lesson (Ref: DfES 0545/2001)