Interventions:
From time to time your child may need some extra support within their studies. We offer a varied range of intervention groups run by our highly skilled teaching assistants.
Here is an overview of the interventions we provide with a short description. If you require any further details please get in contact with your child's teacher,the teaching assistant who runs the intervention or the SENDCo or SENDCo assistant via your child's contact book in the first instance. They will be able to give you more information about each intervention.
Phonics:
A daily intervention following the Babcock phonic phases training, to increase the child's confidence and knowledge of phonic sounds to increase reading and writing skills.
Talking Partners:
This encourages active talkers to make less interruptions and correct choices when to speak and get less able talkers to become more actively involved. It teaches the importance of taking turns.
Teodorescu/Handwriting:
This intervention follows a set programme to help with pencil control, fine motor skills and eye coordination.
Speech and Language:
Following recommendations from individual speech and language reports.
Mighty Maths:
The goal of this intervention is to teach children to be quick and effective at using basic number skills that it becomes 'automatic', requiring little of no conscious effort.
Reading Support Scheme:
This involves rereading books for fluency, focusing on tricky words and using phonic knowledge to word build.
Precision Teaching:
This is a teaching programme to meet the needs of an individual child who is experiencing difficulty with acquiring or maintaining some skills. It has an inbuilt monitoring function so we can evaluate the effectiveness of what is being taught.
Counting to Calculating:
This intervention works with small groups to help children with Maths to understand counting and the additive structure of the number system. Moving on from "counting on". Additive composition-partitioning numbers and understanding equivalence. Inverse relationship between addition and subtraction and then using and applying.
Thrive:
The Thrive Approach can make learning more accessible, more effective and fun. It enhances emotional literacy and directly contributes to the development of learning power:resilience, resourcefulness, reflective capacity and reciprocity.
Mentoring:
One to one sessions with an adult. It may be to increase a child's resilience, to discuss worries or concerns or just a check in to make sure everything is going okay for them. It's very much child
lead.
Spelling support/Sentence construction:
Spelling sessions tailored towards individuals requirements as advised by their class teacher.
Touch typing;
Computer based programme to teach touch typing.
Nessy/Bug Club:
Online based games that help children with English, phonics, reading, spelling and Maths. Games can be set to child's needs and are progressive.
Trugs/Stiles:
An acronym for Teach Reading Using Games-phonics -based card games designed to help children develop their reading skills./A self-checking tile game, structured across 12 books, to enable children to practise and reinforce their phonics knowledge.
Fun Fit:
This programme is to help with coordination, balance skills, motor skills and listening skills.
Power of 2:
This involves two people working together to develop maths skills. The child benefits from repeated practice and explanation. The coach works alongside the child to support their learning.
Toe by Toe:
A highly structured multi-sensory phonetic approach to literacy.
Movement group:
A small group intervention offering focused support to assist children in the development of their ball skills, balance, co-ordination and fine and gross motor skills.
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Mrs Michelle Brine
Teaching Assistant
The Interventions I undertake are:
Thrive
Mentoring
Styles/Trugs
Movement Group
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Mrs Mel Butler
Teaching Assistant
The Interventions I undertake are:
Speech and Language
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Mrs Jenny Welsh
Teaching Assistant
The Interventions I undertake are:
Counting to Calculating
Spelling Support
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Miss Sally Smallman
Teaching Assistant
The Interventions I undertake are:
Phonics Support
Devon Early reading scheme
Fun Fit
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Miss Catherine Tiley
Teaching Assistant
The Interventions I Undertake are:
Speech and Language
Talking Partners
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Mrs Sandra Marsh
Teaching Assistant
The Interventions I undertake are:
Handwriting support
Teodorescu handwriting programme
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Mrs Caroline Hulland
Teaching Assistant
The interventions I undertake are:
Power of 2
Toe by Toe