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School Based Assessment and Identification of SpLD
School Based Assessment and Identification of SpLD
Dates: - (2 Day Course) (delegates much attend both dates) - Monday 27th October 2025 & Monday 24th November 2025
Time: 9:00am-4:00pm both days
Venue: Room G.4, New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Who is this course for: SENCos and teachers
Fee: £160 per delegate for a two day course.
Areas Covered:
Day One:
•The SpLD pathway and early monitoring process.
•Understanding of standardised assessment terminology.
•Basic literacy and language assessments to use in school.
Day Two:
•Case studies of pupils with SpLD and SLCN.
•Understanding of how pupils with SpLD present in school.
•Support in interpreting assessment results and making judgements.
•Awareness of effective provisions of pupils with SpLD.
Course Outcomes:
•Be able to complete basic language and literacy assessments.
•Have increased confidence in interpreting results of assessments.
•Have increased confidence in identifying pupils with SpLD.
This course will be delivered by the LCI Team.
£160.00
School Based Assessment in Mathematics
School Based Assessment in Mathematics
Date: (2 day course) (delegates much attend both dates) - Thursday 5th February 2026 and Thursday 5th March 2026
Time: 9:00am-12:30pm both days
Cost: £80
Venue: Room G.4, New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester. LE3 9RN
Who is this course for: SENDCos, SEN Teachers with responsibility for assessments in Maths.
Areas Covered:
Day One: (am only)
•Understanding the challenges inherent in learning mathematics.
•Exploring some of the ways we can identify mathematical difficulties.
•Introduction to the ‘Quick Numeracy Check’ (QNC) and other useful assessments.
Day Two: (am only)
•What is maths anxiety?
•Discussion of findings from your exploration of Numeracy SBA in school.
•Identifying ways to support pupils who are finding maths challenging in class through high quality teaching.
•Exploring evidence-based intervention approaches.
•A brief introduction to dyscalculia.
Course Outcomes:
•Receive a QNC resource pack
•Be able to complete basic maths-assessments.
•Knowledge of high-quality teaching and resources to use with pupils who find maths challenging.
•Increased confidence in identifying pupils with dyscalculia or maths anxiety.
This course will be delivered by the LCI Team
£80.00
School Based Assessment of Speech, Language and Communication Needs
School Based Assessment of Speech, Language and Communication Need
Dates: - (2 day course) (delegates much attend both dates) - Monday 19th January 2026 & Monday 9th February 2026
Time: 9:00am-5:00pm both days
Fee: £160
Venue: Room G.3, New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester LE3 9RN
Who is this course for: SENDCos and SEN Teachers. HLTAs or Level 3 teaching assistants with responsibility for assessment.
Areas Covered:
Day One.
•Develop knowledge of different areas of SLCN: speech, language, and communication.
•How SLCN presents in the classroom.
•An exploration of different ways to identify SLCN difficulties.
•A practical exploration of formal and informal language assessments to use in school.
Day Two.
•Discussion of findings from case study work and recommended language assessment work.
•How to analyse language assessments.
•Identifying ways to support pupils with SLCN needs within the classroom setting.
•Exploring evidence-based intervention approaches.
This course will be delivered by the LCI Team
£160.00
Executive functioning and cognitive load
Dates: Thursday 13th November 2025
Times: 09:30am - 12:30pm
Cost: £ 40
Venue: New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Executive functions are the ‘air traffic control’ of the brain, keeping everything organised and running smoothly. When this goes wrong, children can be disorganised, struggle to structure thinking, understand and retain learning and manage their emotions. This course looks at different aspects of executive functioning and how to promote and accommodate skills in the classroom. The course is most suitable for teachers and support staff working in key stage through to key stage 4.
Course Outcomes:
- Participants will learn what executive functioning means and the variety of skills which fall under this category.
- Participants will learn to recognise children they work with who may need support with executive functioning.
- Participants will learn strategies to encourage the development of executive functioning and to accommodate differences in the classroom.
£40.00
Precision Teaching
Dates:
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Thursday 13th Nov 2025
and
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Thursday 27th Nov 2025
Time: 09:30am-11:00am
Cost: £40 for both sessions
Venue: Room G.4, New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Precision Teaching is a highly effective and evidence-based intervention strategy for literacy and numeracy. This course covers practical instruction on how to run a precision teaching programme and strategies to generalise learning to the classroom. A follow up session can be arranged to embed practice.
Course Outcomes:
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Participants will understand how to plan, deliver and monitor precision teaching programmes for literacy (reading or spelling) and numeracy.
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Participants will have the opportunity to discuss how to apply precision teaching to other areas of learning.
£40.00
Supporting pupils with complex needs in mainstream
Time: 9.00 - 5.00
Dates:
- Monday 6th October 2025
Cost: £80
Venue: New Parks House Entrance A, New Parks, Leicester. LE3 9RN
Understanding of complex needs and effective ways to integrate pupils, including during play. Meeting need through differentiation, personalised planning, teaching approaches and the multi-sensory learning environment.
Language and communication strategies. Assessment, outcomes and accurate monitoring of progress.
Course Outcomes:
Participants will have:
- Increased confidence in supporting pupils with more complex needs.
- Information about making secure judgements about pupil baseline assessment and progress.
- Knowledge of effective teaching methodology and differentiation strategies to support the child’s learning.
- Gain well-being knowledge of other training materials and support organisations.
£80.00
Introduction to Structured Learning
Introduction to Structured Learning
Date: Wednesday 12th November 2025
Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm
Fee: £80
Venue: Room G.4, New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Who is this course for: SENDCos, Teachers, Mentors and Support Staff.
This course will help you develop an understanding of structured learning approaches and supporting visual strategies, and its advantages to increase understanding and reduce anxiety, whilst using visual strategies as part of structured learning to develop independence.
Course Outcomes:
- Plan for individual students to support and increase their independence.
- Learn how to access tools and resources to create visual structured strategies.
This course will be delivered by the SEMH Team.
£80.00
Support with Reading Comprehension Including Inference
Support with Reading Comprehension Including Inference
Dates: Thursday 12th February 2026 and Thursday 26th February 2026
(Delegates to attend both sessions)
Time: 9:00AM-16:00PM
Fee: £160 for both dates
Venue: Room G.4, New Parks House, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Who is this course for: A teacher who will supervise and teaching assistants who will deliver the training
This course will help you develop an understanding of structured learning approaches and supporting visual strategies, and its advantages to increase understanding and reduce anxiety, whilst using visual strategies as part of structured learning to develop independence.
Course Outcomes:
- Plan for individual students to support and increase their independence.
- Learn how to access tools and resources to create visual structured strategies.
This training will be delivered by the LCI Team
£160.00
Therapeutic Play Approaches
Dates: Tuesday 12th May 2026. 9am-3pm
Who is this course for: SENDCos, mentors and support staff.
Fee: £80
Venue: Training Room G.1, New Parks House, Pindar Road, Leicester, LE3 9RN
Will be run via Microsoft Teams if face to face not possible.
Areas Covered:
•The definition of and developmental stages of play.
•The therapeutic benefits of play.
•The theory & neuroscience behind therapeutic play approaches.
•Our role in play.
•Opportunities to explore resources and learn through play.
•Ideas for a play tool-kit.
Course Outcomes:
•To increase knowledge and understanding of theories related to play and the neuroscience that unpins therapeutic play-based Practices.
•To develop an understanding of the transformative benefits of play & the fundamental rights of a child to play.
•To understand the main developmental/transformative stages of play (& what may have hindered this process).
•To explore the therapeutic toolkit & consider our role in enhancing the therapeutic value of play.
This course will be delivered by the SEMH Team.