SENsational Tutors

Education Offer

Overview

Our tutors/ teachers understand the importance of developing respectful, meaningful and trusting relationships. Indeed, all SENsational tutors are highly experienced at working with children and young people with all special educational needs. Moreover, they enjoy the challenge of helping learners' confidence flourish while boosting their social and academic successes. This ensures students are more motivated and better equipped to embrace post 16 learning opportunities.

SENsational Tutors does not operate from one building but delivers 1-2-1 tuition-usually in the young person’s home. Tutoring sessions can be facilitated online, both in the short and long term. However, we would generally encourage face to face lessons as we find this helps develop more purposeful relationships.

Identifying children's needs

SENsational Tutors liaise continually with parents/carers/referral parties on the progress being made by the young person and whether the targets identified at outset are realistic (or need to be enhanced). We also very much encourage the young person to be part of these discussions, and from these discussions we often find the learner is eager to increase the number of hours that they are accessing our tuition. In addition, half-termly written reports are produced, alongside the termly feedback provided as part of PEP or EHCP reviews.

Dedicated contacts

The tutor or tutors delivering the sessions are always the first point of contact as they will have the most valuable insight into the child’s development and are best placed in allaying parental concerns. In Head Office the alternative points of contact include Joanna Gibbs, Rebecca Tinworth and Gray Prince

Involving children and their families

• Parenting Advice
• Regular contact between parents/carers and the setting

Parents/Carers play a key role in the initial referral process in helping to identify the suitability of the learner/teacher match. Furthermore, continual parent/carer input is sought so we have a holistic picture of the progress being made, socially as much as academically.

Range of support available

• Partnership working with other professionals
• Additional support strategies
• Support for communication needs

We work with local authorities, schools, colleges, residential homes and parents to provide home, community, online or school-based SEN tutoring, mentoring and other professional services to children and young people (ages 4-25) with SEN including:

• ASD/ ASC/ autism
• Anxiety
• Mental health/ SEMH/ SEBH/ challenging behaviour
• ADHD/ ADD
• Speech and Language needs (expressive and receptive), including non-verbal
• Sensory processing disorder
• Complex and/or medical needs including cerebral palsy, brain injuries and epilepsy
• Working memory and/or processing difficulties
• Executive Functioning Skills/ Study Skills
• PDA
• Dyslexia
• Dyspraxia
• Dyscalculia
• Social interaction and friendship skills
• DCD/ dyspraxia
• Other SEN needs including abuse and trauma, selective mutism and Down’s Syndrome

Measuring children's progress

Parents/Carers/referral parties receive regular updates-both verbal and written-on the child’s progress. Tutors also contribute to multi-agency discussions wherever possible to ensure communication between all stakeholders is consistent and accurate, and also to share expertise. As noted above, formal reviews including EHCP reviews and PEP reviews are used to report against specific targets and to help in the setting of new ones.

Support and training for school staff

SENsational Tutors has a bank of more than 50 skilled practitioners with vast expertise in terms of supporting children, young people and young adults with special educational needs, including those with profound difficulties. Our tutors embrace continual professional development, and each has areas of special interest, including dyslexia, trauma, autism, speech and language difficulties. Numerous tutors have the National SENCo Diploma or Certificate and are members of professional bodies such as the National Autistic Society.

Accessibility of the school

Tutoring sessions typically take place in the young person’s home or online.

Inclusion

SENsational Tutors is truly inclusive in supporting learners with both cognitive and physical difficulties and we seek for both social and academic successes. Hence, alongside support in cognition and learning, we help develop the following:

• Communication, social interaction, and speech and language
• Social, emotional and mental health, including helping young people to regulate their feelings and emotions
• Building confidence and self-esteem, including helping young people to manage their anxiety and behaviour
• Focus, concentration and attention skills, and young people to access learning and the community
• Independence, executive functioning and self-help.

By developing our learners’ confidence and self-esteem, we usually see that such gains are the catalyst in accelerating the child’s academic progress.

Transition arrangements

SENsational Tutors communicates continually with parents/carers/referral parties in helping to guide transition choices. We also work with our young people in helping them identify post 16 options that best match their interests. Moreover, when young people are being re-integrated back to a mainstream setting, we maintain contact with the school/referral party/parents/carers to help ensure the reintegration is successful and the young person is able to flourish in their new environment.

Support and training for parents and carers

We offer comprehensive Parent Consultation throughout their child/young person's time with us.

Further information

www.sensationaltutors.co.uk