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H&R Relational Approach Co-ordinator to Primary and Secondary Schools
My role as H&R Locality Board’s Relational Approach Co-ordinator is to support schools in adopting and embedding whole school relational approaches.
My goal is to help schools embed good practices, enhance understanding of SEMH (Social, Emtional and Mental Health) needs and work together to reduce suspensions, exclusions and persistent absences.
I can offer bespoke support to schools and have also developed a Relational Approach Network meeting, enabling schools to support one another in choosing and developing their whole school relational approach.
If you’ve already participated in the training funded by the Locality Board, please reach out, especially if you have specific issues, you would like assistance with such as training for staff, addressing rising SEND or SEMH needs.
So, whether you are already trained and are embedding your relational approach or you are new to the concept of relational approaches, please contact me, alison.keane@dalesmat.org.
Sam Johnson, Selby Locality Board Inclusion Lead
My role as Selby Locality Board Inclusion Lead is varied, with overall aims of supporting smoother transitions, helping to reduce exclusions and improving attendance. My work complements the other services provided by North Yorkshire Council. I started work in Sept 2024 and will be in post until July 2026.
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Relational Approach Network for Selby locality: where schools can meet regularly to support one another in developing their whole school relational approach.
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‘A day in the life of a Year 7’: primary school students can attend a secondary school for a day and follow a Year 7.
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Transition Networking meeting: bringing together Transition Leads, SENCos and teachers to develop communication.
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Ambition Hub: This program, held one day a month for six months, is for Year 6 to Year 8 students. It promotes achievement, resilience, and teamwork through Outdoor Adventurous Activities, helping students develop new skills and positive mindsets.
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Attendance project working in partnership with NHS’s ‘Integrated Neighbourhood Team’ with specific schools.
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Early Years Verbo Project
What is Verbo and how can it help your setting?
Verbo is an online speech and language therapy (SaLT) toolkit to support education staff working with children from
age 2 to post-16. Verbo upskills and empowers education professionals enabling them to provide SaLT support for all
children in their setting. It supports high quality practice with the hope that every child in your setting has the
opportunity to maximise their communication potential at the right time without the barriers of staff resourcing or
lack of expertise.
Verbo for Early Years
Our newly developed Early Years content includes:
● Screening tools for ages 2, 3 and 4 years, with automatically generated targets and activity recommendations
● Progress tracking for individual children
● Opportunity to share information with parents/carers so they can see children’s targets, progress and related
activities
● ‘Watch, Wait, Communicate’ Adult-Child Interaction webinar series for Early Years Practitioners to maximise
their existing skills and optimise children’s opportunities for communication
● Further webinars including Early Years-focused training on Multilingual Language Development and Speech
Sound Development
● Early Years Environment audit
● A growing video library of therapists explaining and demonstrating activities, with downloadable resources
● A range of information leaflets
● Robust impact measures and personalised outcome reports
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Impact
● Developing staff skills at a targeted level will benefit multiple children across a setting
● Instant access to screening and monitoring tools as well as recommendations, supports appropriate
referrals and avoids the need to wait for specialists in order to start targeted support
Who is Verbo for?
Verbo has resources that support at a universal and a targeted level. For children with specialist needs it is important
to refer to a local SaLT service. Verbo may have some advice and ideas to support getting started or support while
waiting for specialist input.
Verbo in North Yorkshire – Register your setting now.
Verbo has been funded by North Yorkshire and is available at no cost to your setting for the next academic year.
We want Verbo to be able to support as many children and settings as possible. The hope is to secure longer term
funding. To do this we need as many Early Years settings as possible to make use of the platform to support the
children in their care.
Ready to sign up to Verbo? Click here or use the QR code to register as an Early Years Setting or Childminder.
Introduction to Verbo Video from North Yorkshire Council’s EY SENCo Network Meeting May 2024 (click below to view) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OerfKKzj3sQ
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