Special provision capital funding projects 2019

An element of the Special Capital Provision funding 2019 has been used to support priorities identified in the draft SEND Strategy and address identified areas of need. The projects focus on improving provision in mainstream schools for children with Social Emotional and Mental Health Needs (SEMH).

Expressions of interest were received form schools, these were evaluated by a Panel and the proposed projects were then consulted on.  The successful projects are outlined below. 

We have recently undertaken a consultation on using some further special provision capital funding to develop Resource Centres at mainstream schools for children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health Needs (SEMH) or Autistic Spectrum Disorder to attend.

Richard Clarke First School

Provision category:  Mainstream provision (not unit)

Ofsted judgement:  Good

Age range:  Primary

Special provision fund investment in facilities:   £12,408

Type of SEN or disability that the project is designed to meet:  Social Emotional and Mental Health

Aims of the project:   Refurbish current "Brain Box" room to provide an area in which we can:

  • Create a calm intervention space for children with social, emotional and mental health needs who need to develop the space and skills to build trust with adults in order to be taught strategies to respond to identified social emotional and mental health skill gaps.
  • Develop a sensory area.
Norton Canes High School

Provision category:  Mainstream provision (not unit)

Ofsted judgement:  Good

Age range:  Secondary

Special provision fund investment in facilities:   £10,763

Type of SEN or disability that the project is designed to meet:  Social Emotional and Mental Health

Aims of the project:   Refurbish and develop an existing behaviour support office and alternative quiet working area to support identified children with social emotional and mental health needs.  To provide a safe area and a social emotional and mental health hub.

Brindley Heath Junior School

Provision category:  Mainstream provision (not unit)

Ofsted judgement:  Good

Age range:  Primary

Special provision fund investment in facilities:   £2,235

Type of SEN or disability that the project is designed to meet:  Social Emotional and Mental Health

Aims of the project:   Create a 'rainbow room' - a nuture room for children needing to temporarily withdrawn from lessons or the playgrounds or those needing a safe and supervised 'space'.  The room will create a calming and sensory space where vulnerable children feel safe, reassured and are able to calm down, re-focus and then re-engage in their learning, as quickly as possible.   

Churnet View Middle School

Provision category:  Mainstream provision (not unit)

Ofsted judgement:  Good

Age range:  Primary and Secondary

Special provision fund investment in facilities:   £37,490

Type of SEN or disability that the project is designed to meet:  Social Emotional and Mental Health

Aims of the project:   Development of a current mobile classroom providing a space for pupils and staff to facilitate metacognition and self-regulation.  The aim of the space is for pupils to develop their ability to self-reflect and self-regulate so that they can continue to access their learning and build resilience.  Facilities will include: sensory pod, nuture space, creative space, soft seating area for informal meetings and therapy/counselling sessions. 

John Taylor Free School

Provision category:  Other

Ofsted judgement:  Not yet inspected

Age range:  Secondary

Special provision fund investment in facilities:   £7,009

Type of SEN or disability that the project is designed to meet:  Social Emotional and Mental Health

Aims of the project:  A multi-sensory room to support students when they experience symptons of anxiety and sensory overload.  This will provide space and equipment to help students regulate their emotions, to manage their symptons and enable them to benefit from a full curriculum of learning.

The de Ferrers Academy, Trent Campus,

Provision category:  Mainstream provision (not unit)

Ofsted judgement:  Good

Age range:  Secondary

Special provision fund investment in facilities:   £23,500

Type of SEN or disability that the project is designed to meet:  Social Emotional and Mental Health

Aims of the project:  Wooden 'pod' - The 'pod' will be an educational learning envioronment to support students who have soical, emotional and mental health difficulties.  It will be used as an additional learning environmnet for social, emotional and mental health intervention workshops, education psychologist workshops, mentoring/confidence boosting sessions, attendance clinics (focus on school refusers/non attenders) and alternative provision.  It will provide a quite and calm place for the students to work in.

King Edward VI Lichfield

Provision category:  Mainstream provision (not unit)

Ofsted judgement:  Good

Age range:  Secondary

Special provision fund investment in facilities:   £13,300

Type of SEN or disability that the project is designed to meet:  Social Emotional and Mental Health

Aims of the project:  Refurbishment of the Student Support Centre which is used for meetings between school staff and students, sessions with various professionals including: counsellors, mentors, SARAC, CAMHS, T3, PCSOs and to support students who require more nurturing and support for students experiencing social and emotional difficulties.

St Leonard’s Primary School

Provision category:  Mainstream provision (not unit)

Ofsted judgement:  Requires improvement

Age range:  Primary

Special provision fund investment in facilities:   £4,900

Type of SEN or disability that the project is designed to meet:  Social Emotional and Mental Health

Aims of the project:  Equipment for Forest Schools programme - to provide a wide range of activities to help with mental and emotional well-being, increased self-belief, confidence, learning capacity, problem solving skills and emotional well-being.

St Mary’s Primary School

Provision category:  Mainstream provision (not unit)

Ofsted judgement: 

Age range:  Primary

Special provision fund investment in facilities:   £19,995

Type of SEN or disability that the project is designed to meet:  Social Emotional and Mental Health

Aims of the project:  An additional outdoor classroom; a space to provide calmness and safety to children who don't have this in their regular lives.  The room would aim to create a calm, relaxed environment difference to the set-up in of normal classrooms.

The Hart

Provision category:  Mainstream provision (not unit)

Ofsted judgement:  Good

Age range:  Secondary

Special provision fund investment in facilities:   £11,130

Type of SEN or disability that the project is designed to meet:  Social Emotional and Mental Health

Aims of the project:  The refurbishment of a garage in order to provide a dedicated nurture, teaching and support room for SEND students and students with Education Health and Care Plans.  SEND students would have a room that would support them in receiving

  • 1:1 precision teaching,
  • Small group learning, including Lego Therapy.
  • Time out zone for students with SEND
  • A room dedicated for all year groups with SEND emotional social and mental health:  a room away from other students for students receiving support for emotional social and mental health needs, including work with T3, Autism Outreach and other outside agencies.
  • Dedicated space to support students in mental health and wellbeing

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