SEN Conference: Inclusive Education for Every Learner
CONFERENCE AIMS
Focused on helping teaching professionals, support staff, and stakeholders work more effectively with students with Special Educational Needs. The ‘SEN Conference: Inclusive Education for Every Learner’, is designed to provide attendees with practical tools and strategies to create more inclusive and supportive educational environments. Delegates will gain valuable insights into a range of topics, including adapting teaching styles for diverse learners, fostering early intervention, and creating supportive and inclusive classroom environments and discover how working collaboratively with parents and carers will ensure consistent support for SEN students. Our speakers bring a wealth of experience in the field of SEN education, offering their expertise to guide you in your journey toward more inclusive teaching practices. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals and explore innovative approaches to supporting SEN students.BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
- Learn about the implications of national changes for school leaders
- Gain practical strategies for adapting teaching methods to meet the diverse needs of SEN students.
- Understand the benefits of early intervention and learn how to implement these practices in your classroom or school.
- Discover how to foster a supportive classroom culture that promotes inclusivity and reduces barriers for SEN students.
- Learn best practices for building strong relationships and effective communication with parents and carers of SEN students.
- Take away innovative approaches to keep SEN students engaged and motivated in the classroom.
Programme
10.00am
Steve Smith, Head of Professional Development, Keynote Educational
10.05
- The national picture of SEND
- Implications of the national changes for school leaders
- Progress with the DfE SEND and AP Improvement Plan
Natalie Packer, SEND Consultant
10.50
11.10am
- How to plan an ambitious curriculum for all pupils
- How to do more for those with less through adaptive teaching
- How to make a success of interventions and embed key literacies
Matt Bromley, Education Journalist, Author, and Advisor
12.00pm
- Strategies to challenge low-attendance and school avoidance
- Loco parentis – understanding the concerns of parents and carers
- Parents and careers as stakeholders – involving them in school life
Mike Bailey, ISAP Lead at Co-op Academy Manchester
12.50pm
1.50pm
1A – Adapting Your Style
- Inclusive teaching: making lessons engaging and accessible for neurodivergent learners
- Reasonable adjustments for ND kids that don’t cause havoc.
- The little things that make the BIG difference
Becky Dawson, Director @ Think CYP, Facilitator, Consultant, Coach
2.40pm
2.50pm
- How to drive inclusion at every level of your MAT/school
- How to develop ALL leaders as leaders of SEND
- What this looks like in practise at a MAT and school level
Rhian Warner, E-ACT Primary SEND Specialist
3.45pm
Leadership - Code: C0002
SEN Conference: Inclusive Education for Every Learner
London | Friday 21 March 2025
SPEAKERS
Natalie Packer, is an Independent Education Consultant, specialising in SEND and school improvement. She develops and delivers a wide range of training and support, including SEND reviews, to schools and multiacademy trusts. She works closely with several trusts to support their strategic development of SEND and is a trustee of Learn-AT in Leicestershire. She is an associate for national organisations Nasen, Whole Education, Forum Strategy and Leadership Matters. Natalie is the author of The Perfect SENCO and The Teacher’s Guide to SEN and co-author of the forthcoming publication Beyond Boundaries: Leading Great SEND Provision across a Trust.
Rhian Warner, is an education journalist, author, and advisor with twenty-five years’ experience in teaching and leadership including as a secondary school headteacher and academy principal, further education college vice principal, and multi-academy trust director. Matt is a public speaker, trainer, initial teacher training lecturer, and school improvement advisor. He remains a practising teacher, currently working in secondary, FE and HE settings. Matt writes for various magazines, is the author of numerous best-selling books on education, and co-hosts an award-winning podcast.
Matt Bromley, has spent the last 16 years working in education sector, including in mainstream schools, specialist SEN settings and training providers. He has extensive expertise in working with young people with ASC, SEMH needs and other diagnoses. Having filled a number of leadership roles, Mike is passionate about providing a voice for young people who have been marginalised by our education system, working towards full equity for those who have had to overcome significant barriers to their learning. He is now excited to share strategies and advice to help you engage with young people with SEND through transformative learning.
Mike Bailey,is the Primary SEND Specialist at E-ACT MAT where she supports SEND provision. This role sees Rhian work across the Trusts 17 primary schools, supporting SENDco and delivering Trust wide CPD. Rhian is an experienced senior leader having ben Deputy Headteacher and SENDco in two E-ACT Academies before joining the Trust central team. Rhian is passionate about inclusion, curriculum design and reading.
Lorraine Peterson, is the Wellbeing Lead for Twinkl and an experienced educator who has worked in secondary and primary schools for over 20 years. She is a facilitator, consultant and coach working with young people and the adults who work with them, with a focus on developing understanding and skills around special educational needs, mental health, wellbeing and safeguarding.
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