Special Needs Code Glossary Helping Pupils Staff SEN Policy



TEACHING ASSISTANTS.


Name: ANA CULLEN
Qualifications:
CLAIT (Computer Literacy and IT)
RSA Text Processing, Stage 1.
Behaviour Management.
Hearing Impaired.
Experience: 13 years.
Interests/Expertise:
Spanish; CDT; Geography; French;
Autism;
Building self- esteem;
Successmaker.

Name: SUE FAHY
Qualifications:
Open College Accreditation in Learning Support Levels 1 and 2.
Pre-Health and Social Services Certificate.
MAKATON Foundation Level.
Successmaker Trainer.
Working with Anxious Young Children.
Experience: 4 years Primary school Special Education Worker
3 years at High school as Teaching Assistant.
School Literacy Governor for 4 years.
Interests/Expertise:
Raising literacy standards - small group and 1:1
Developing learning resources (games etc)
Successmaker program.
Working with disaffected pupils.
Building social skills and self-esteem.


Name: PAM HUNT
Qualifications:
WYOC NVQ Level 3 Learning Support.
C+G 7321 Certificates 1+2 Learning Support.
Outdoor First Aid.
Behaviour management.
Partially sighted/hearing impaired courses.
Working with Anxious Young People.
Dyspraxia and dyslexia.
Drugs Awareness
Currently studying for European Computer Driving Licence.
Experience: 11 years at Priesthorpe.
Interests/Expertise:
Working on 1:1 basis and individual programmes.
Workshop.
Department admin.
Geography and CDT.


Name: NISAR HUSSAIN (Curriculum Parental Support Assistant,CPSA)
Qualifications:
Successmaker.
CLAIT.
PowerPoint.
RSA Counselling Level 1.

Interests/Expertise:
Bi-lingualism.
Ethnic Matters.

Key worker: Various ethnic pupils.

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Name: LYNNE JOHNSON
Qualifications: Special Needs Forum.
Literacy Hour Training.
Child Protection.
Positive Behaviour Management.
Reading Course.
Barnado's Course for Teaching Assistants.
Experience: 9 years in Middle School.
3 years at Priesthorpe.
Interests/Expertise:
Art and Design.
Child Protection.
Behaviour Management.


Name: MAGGIE LAKE
Qualifications:
Learning Support Levels 1+2
Behaviour Management.
Computer Course and PowerPoint.
Experience: 5 years at Priesthorpe.
Interests/Expertise:
Behaviour.
Social Skills.
Inclusion.

Name: FIONA LARNER
Qualifications:
Learning Support Levels 1,2 and 3.
Creativity NTA Behaviour Management.
CLAIT.
Dyspraxia.
Behaviour difficulties.
Drugs Awareness.
City and Guilds Catering: 706: 1 and 2.
NEB 55
Council Mini-bus driver
Experience:
4 years at Priesthorpe.
4 years voluntary NTA
School governor for Special Needs and Child Protection and Child in Care
Interests/Expertise:
Working with disaffected pupils
Speech therapy


Name: HELEN LEE
Qualifications:
Learning Support Assistant Levels 1,2 and 3.
Counselling - Introduction Course 1 and 2.
Psychology.
Experience:
2 years voluntary NTA
7 years at Priesthorpe - 4½ years Teaching Assistant; 2½ Meals Supervisor.
Interests/Expertise:
Disaffected Pupils
Building social skills and self-esteem.
IT

Name: OLENA LILLEY
Qualifications:
BA (Hons) in Music Education
Introductory Course for Teaching Assistant
Behaviour Management
Experience:
Working with dyslexic children
Interests/Expertise:
Music
History
IT
Russian/Polish/Ukraine speaking


Name: SUSAN MORTIMER
Qualifications:
Assertion and Confidence Building.
Behaviour Management.
Learning Support NVQ 2 and 3.
St. John's Emergency First Aid.
CLAIT, Stage 1.
RSA Text Processing, Part 1.
Working with Anxious Children.
Dyspraxia.

Experience:
8 years Teaching Assistant.
Interests/Expertise:
English.
History.
Science.
Autism/General Self-esteem.

Name: LINDA ROY
Qualifications:
GCSE Child Psychology.
Inset training - behaviour modification, autism, dyslexia and dyspraxia, eating disorders.
Experience:
13 years Teaching Assistant at Priesthorpe.
Interests/Expertise:
Literacy (Successmaker)
Languages - French and Spanish.
Geography.

Name: KAREN SMITH
Qualifications:
BSc (Hons) Applied Chemistry
NVQ3 Teaching Assistant
Experience:
2 years voluntary Teaching Assistant at primary school
Interests/Expertise:
Science/Maths/Geography
IT
Working with disaffected pupils


Name: JOANNE SWALES
Qualifications:
Advanced Certificate 02 in Learning Support.
Behaviour Management.
Drug Awareness.
Counselling.
British Sign Language, Stage 2.
CLAIT.
Experience:
Working with deaf children.
Working with children in a Refuge setting.
Youth Offending Team.
Interests/Expertise:
Children with hearing problems.
Behaviour and emotional problems.
Drugs Awareness.

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