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Primary School Guidance for Inclusive SLCN Practic...

Download the latest Guidance for Inclusive SLCN Practice for primary schools Written by Cindy Groves, Lead Professional for Speech and Language at Barking and Dagenham LA. For more information contact...

Secondary School Guidance for Inclusive SLCN Pract...

Download the latest Guidance for Inclusive SLCN Practice for secondary schools Written by Cindy Groves, Lead Professional for Speech and Language at Barking and Dagenham LA. For more information contact...

Making Best Use of Teaching Assistants

This document summarises the 7 key recommendations from the Education Endowment Fund research into Making Best Use of Teaching Assistants (2015). It remains a useful tool for school leaders who...

Teaching Assistant Professional Standards: Self As...

The Professional Standards for Teaching Assistants were developed in 2016 and although they are not statutory, they offer useful guidance on the role of the teaching assistant.

GCSE Results Day Document

A Level Results Day and Clearing Document

Results day is the time of knowing your actual A level or BTEC results and if you have applied to university for an undergraduate course, you will know if you...

Supplementary Subject-Specific Guidance for RE

RSJ Overview

The race and social justice programme was formally launched with all schools in barking and Dagenham in September 2021. Prior to the formal launch, we invested around ten months in...

Barking and Dagenham Race and Social Justice Chart...

A Case Study in Race and Social Justice: Barking A...

Download to see Barking Abbey School’s progress as part of the Race and Social Justice programme.

A Case Study in Race and Social Justice: Eastbury ...

Download to see Eastbury Primary School’s progress as part of the Race and Social Justice programme.

A Case Study in Race and Social Justice: Marsh Gre...

Download to see Marsh Green Primary School’s progress as part of the Race and Social Justice programme.

RSJ Self Evaluation Sample

Download a sample of our Race and Social Justice self-evaluation pack.

SEMH Handbook

Click the link to head to the SEMH Handbook. The SEMH Handbook has been commissioned by Barking and Dagenham Local Authority to support schools in developing their graduated response for...

School Guidance for SEMH

Low Arousal Approach Checklist

Taken from Professor Andrew McDonnell’s book, The Reflective Journey: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Low Arousal Approach, this person-centred, non-confrontational approach to managing behaviour provides a supportive framework for all...

Thinking about Leadership of a Curriculum for SEND

The nature of a SEND curriculum means that we can’t write one and be done with it. Therefore, we need to think carefully about our leadership of a curriculum for...

SEND Information Report and Policy Checklist

This document is designed to enable leaders of SEND to: understand the differences between the SEND Information Report and a SEND Policy check that their SEND Information Report meets statutory...