AET Training

We are delighted to hold the schools training license from the Autism Education Trust for Swindon, meaning we are approved to run AET training programmes.

The AET shares our aim of improving the quality of education for children and young people with autism. AET training programmes are supported by the Department for Education and over 207,000 people have received AET training. We believe that all staff should have a basic awareness of autism and the Making Sense of Autism module is for everyone in schools from cooks to caretakers, from governors to drivers. Making Sense of Autism can be delivered in your school setting at a date and time to suit you.

Good Autism Practice is aimed at practitioners and focuses on the strategies to develop good autism practice.

Leading Good Autism Practice is for leaders and managers in schools who have a focus on the whole school SEND strategy.

Extending and Enhancing Good Autism Practice explores autism in greater depth and looks at the theories of autism such as Theory of Mind.

We can also offer all Autism Education Trust modules in your setting and have licence to run school and post 16 elements of the courses.

For more details of costing and availability please feel free to email Becky North at aet@crowdyshill.swindon.sch.uk.

Autism Education Trust

We are extremely proud of our staff who have dedicated years to learning about how best to teach pupils with special educational needs. All of our staff have completed autism awareness courses, and many have taken further study in this area. All teaching staff are trained in SEN updates and initiatives weekly. All teaching assistants undertake SEN induction, first aid training, manual handling training, and basic phonics sessions. READ MORE ▾

Some of our staff are subject specialists, and others are primary phase teacher trained staff, with a sound knowledge of phonics. In the primary phase the staff to pupil ratios are higher, as we are just beginning to build independence.

Good Autism Practice is aimed at practitioners and focuses on the strategies to develop good autism practice.

Leading Good Autism Practice is for leaders and managers in schools who have a focus on the whole school SEND strategy.

Extending and Enhancing Good Autism Practice explores autism in greater depth and looks at the theories of autism such as Theory of Mind.

We can also offer all Autism Education Trust modules in your setting and have licence to run school and post 16 elements of the courses.

For more details of costing and availability please feel free to email.

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Education SEN Outreach

The purpose of the Outreach Team is to support children/young people at the point of need through planning and delivering targeted outreach services.

The Outreach Team will provide a need led personalised programme of support that puts children’s needs at the centre of what we do to respond effectively. The Outreach Programme will take into consideration their assessed special educational needs, disabilities, previous experiences and the wider needs of the family/Carers.

The Outreach Team will assess and explore the child/young person’s individual profile of strengths and difficulties and develop partnerships with schools to inform the planning of outreach delivery.

If you have a pupil within your school who you feel needs outreach please feel free to contact Becky North at bnorth@crowdyshill.swindon.sch.uk and we can discuss this further.

Parent Workshops

Cygnet Courses At Crowdys Hill we have gained the license to deliver the Barnardos ‘Cygnet Course’. This is a course on ‘supporting parents with children aged 5-18 on the autistic spectrum’. We are in the process of setting up this programme and at this stage would like to gain parental interest. If interested in attending please contact Emily Hibbard at the school for details of the next Cygent Course -ehibbard@crowdyshill.swindon.sch.uk. As part of Cygnet there are 3 courses we will be offering:- READ MORE ▾

Course 1 – Supporting parents with children on the autistic spectrum (x7 sessions)

Course 2 – Siblings Course ( 2 hour session)

Course 3 – Puberty ( 2 hour session)

Course 4 – Sleep (2 hour session)

To access course 2, 3 or 4 you must first complete the full Cygnet Course 1 with Crowdys Hill trainers.

Overview of Main Cygnet course (course 1)

The course is divided into 7 weekly sessions, each lasting approx. 2.5-3 hours.

Session 1 – Introduction to the course

Session 2 – Overview of Autism

Session 3 – Sensory needs

Session 4 – Communication

Session 5 – Understanding Behaviour

Session 6 – Supporting behaviour

Session 7 – Evaluation of course

You must be able to attend all sessions and stay for the duration of each session. If you miss sessions you will need to re-start the programme.

For more information, follow the link to Barnardos website.

Click here to download the current course offer letter.

Attention Autism

Trainer Debbie New SEN Teacher This is a programme that was developed by Gina Davis, a speech and language specialist, to support the development of attention and focus in autistic children. Attention Autism is a programme that we run at school usually two or three times a week. READ MORE ▾

The programme is designed to build up attention levels and encourage the children to be able to focus on activities not of their choice. The sessions move on to turn taking and carrying out tasks independently. The programme begins with stage 1, which is designed to grab the children’s attention and get them to focus on an object for increasing amounts of time. In stage 2 the children are presented with an exciting activity which encourages them to focus for longer and supports further development of vocabulary. In stage 3 the children are supported to shift their attention by taking a turn and in stage 4 they watch a modelled activity before completing it independently. We have found that by following the programme regularly the children are more able to focus during learning tasks during the school day. Course will run for 60 minutes and is free to schools within Swindon, please contact bnorth@crowdyshill.swindon.sch.uk for further information.

Sensory Needs

Trainer - Kerry Pleasant SEN Teacher

This course focuses on the seven senses and what they may look like with the children we work with. We look at over and under responsive behaviours for each sense and ways to support the child based on this.

Course will run for 60 minutes and is free to schools within Swindon. Please contact bnorth@crowdyshill.swindon.sch.uk for further information.

Working With Children Who Have Experienced Childhood Trauma

Trainer - Liz Howell SEN Teacher This training looks at how childhood trauma affects a child's ability to learn and thrive, their ability to relate to others and how trauma impacts their physical and psychological development. READ MORE ▾

Drawing on academic research and personal experience it will offer an understanding of Toxic Stress and the survival strategies employed by traumatised children to cope as they grow up. These factors form the background to understanding the challenging and dysregulated behaviours which traumatised children can present with. Participants are invited to consider students and young people in their own care and to consider how knowledge gained in the training might be applied to help them. Course will run for 60 minutes and is free to schools within Swindon, please contact bnorth@crowdyshill.swindon.sch.uk for further information.

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