Outreach
Mountjoy School offers Outreach support to local schools in West Dorset and has been doing very successfully for a number of years. A number of our experienced staff are involved in supporting special schools alongside mainstream primary and secondary schools in the development of their practice with SEN pupils.
Sue Gurney-Legg – Outreach Evaluations Comments:
Most useful aspects:
- The resources provided as well as in class support
- The practical classroom reorganisation and manual dexterity suggestions
- Arranging visits to Mountjoy, these sessions have really helped us move forward with s and his family
- An independent point of view to help us assess how effective our provision is and how we can improve it further
- Having a practising teacher advise rather than a consultant is great.
- Ideas to use visuals and seeing examples, visit to Mountjoy and assessment ideas
Changes since Outreach support
- He has become less anxious in school and he has become more resilient
- She is more willing and confident to tackle work and able to see what is expected each lesson and is not used to the small steps pattern of her lessons
- More confident in all settings, this is because we are enabling him to achieve
- Extensive visuals to aid transitions, then managed most of two day transition to Colefox successfully and took part in 1 night of residential visit
- Much calmer and less frustrated
- Becoming more independent through visual cue cards
Any Other Comments
- Sue is enthusiastic and knowledgeable
- An excellent service
- Thank you for the whole staff training session, the outreach support has benefitted the whole staff team
- Sue is always such a help and very good with staff and parents
To access Outreach Services from Mountjoy please visit: https://tadss.co.uk/outreach-services/