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Natalie Packer
@nataliepacker.bsky.social
Director of Natalie Packer Educational Consultancy Ltd. SEND & School Improvement Consultant. Trustee of @L3arnat, Market Harborough.
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This is such a useful list. Thank you @tanialt.bsky.social for pulling it together! A great way to connect with others working in SEND and inclusion. 👏✨

#SEND #Inclusion #Disability
April 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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November 17, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for @nataliepacker.bsky.social's insightful webinar on developing and evaluating specialist provision within mainstream schools.
If you couldn't join the session, the slides and recording are available here: evaluatemyschool.co.uk/specialist-p...
Specialist Provision Webinar with Natalie Packer – EvaluateMySchool
evaluatemyschool.co.uk
March 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Less than a week to go until this webinar with @nataliepacker.bsky.social!
If your organisation is considering setting up your own resourced provision/SEN unit or internal specialist provision this session will be invaluable.
Register for free here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b5599f...
February 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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It's been fantastic to see so many people registering for this event!

Join @nataliepacker.bsky.social as she talks about developing and effectively evaluating resourced provision/SEN units within mainstream schools.

Register now: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b5599f...
February 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Looking forward to running this webinar with
@evaluatemyschool.bsky.social on 27th February. If you're interested in establishing RP / SEN units / internal provision in your mainstream school, please join us!
Book your free place here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b5599f...
January 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Looking forward to running this webinar with
@evaluatemyschool.bsky.social on 27th February. If you're interested in establishing RP / SEN units / internal provision in your mainstream school, please join us!
Book your free place here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b5599f...
January 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Absolute pleasure to have @nataliepacker.bsky.social and @davidbartram.bsky.social working with @wholeeducation.bsky.social and 50 Trust leaders from across the country today. Send a DM if you’d like to find out more about becoming part of our MAT SEND Leadership network.
January 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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*** NEW POST ***

‘The ‘adaptive teaching’ collection’

“Adaptive teaching describes the moment-to-moment responsiveness that is orchestrated continuously in the classroom by expert teachers.”

alexquigley.co.uk/the-adaptive...
The 'Adaptive Teaching' Collection
Adaptive teaching describes the moment-to-moment responsiveness that is orchestrated continuously in the classroom by expert teachers.  In the past few years, in England at least, its prominence has ...
alexquigley.co.uk
January 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Written with support from colleagues @TeesValleyEducation and Impact MAT, this self-evaluation can help leaders evaluate their specialist provision
The DfE has this week, announced spending of £740m to create specialist places in mainstream schools.

Our new self-evaluation, written in partnership with expert
@nataliepacker.bsky.social supports you to evaluate your provision against key criteria Hear more: youtu.be/G1G1rDIGgkk
EMS Specialist Provision Self-Evaluation
YouTube video by EvaluateMySchool
youtu.be
December 6, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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A really important piece of journalism from @samanthajbooth.bsky.social.

When one school does this, it may be an oversight.

When many schools do this, it may make the system impenetrable.
Most 'information reports', which schools must publish to tell parents about the SEND support they offer, are harder to read than Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time, a study suggests
School SEND reports harder to read than Stephen Hawking book
'We ought to be able to explain SEND to parents more clearly than someone explains cosmology'
buff.ly
November 25, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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Hugely grateful for a superb visit to Waterton Trust to meet with Lauren Thresh and to visit the brilliant team at Newstead Academy with @nataliepacker.bsky.social and Jane Jones @marieclaireb.bsky.social
September 26, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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NEW POST: Parents’ experiences reveal an epidemic of SEND transport failings across the country leaving disabled children at risk or missing school: www.specialneedsjungle.com/no-school-la... #SENDtransport
An epidemic of SEND school transport failings leaves disabled children at risk and missing school - Special Needs Jungle
An epidemic of SEND school transport failings leaves disabled children at risk of injury and missing school
https://www.specialneedsjungle.com/no-school-la-fails-send-transport/?utm_source=#{SOCIAL_NETWORK}&utm_medium=Zoho+Social&utm_content=#{FIRST10}
September 13, 2024 at 6:12 AM
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"[With attendance] it's safest to assume there is a problem that needs solving and it's more likely to be SEND, mental health or bullying."

World-renowned mental health expert Professor Tamsin Ford on how to tackle the attendance crisis - a must read ⬇️
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
Why you can’t separate attendance from mental health and SEND
To improve attendance, schools need to understand how it interacts with mental health and SEND and build systems of support accordingly, argues Professor Tamsin Ford
www.tes.com
September 11, 2024 at 5:52 AM
This looks like a positive move #inclusion. Will be interesting to see what the new inclusion criterion contain.
🔎 Ofsted will check the quality of schools' support for vulnerable pupils and the disadvantaged and 'grade down' those that turn away children with SEND under a new 'inclusion' criterion in proposed report cards
'Inclusion' a key 'criterion' for new Ofsted report cards
Schools that turn away SEND pupils face being 'graded down', says chief inspector
buff.ly
September 4, 2024 at 9:53 AM