Meet the SEND Team

Joe McGovern

Trust SENDCo

Areas of interest: Understanding the barriers to learning that children face.

What I’m good at: Listening and being solution focused.

What I’d like to be better at: Playing a musical instrument.

Verity Waters

Assistant Headteacher in charge of Inclusion and SEND

Areas of interest: Extremely passionate about giving students the right support so they can choose what they want to do after finishing school.

What I’m good at: All kinds of sport but in school I pride myself on being able to work with all students and building good working relationships with people.

What I’d like to be better at: Cooking, this is not my strength, there have been a lot of overcooked meals in the past.

Jackie Laurie

Operational SENDCo

Area of interest: learning from neurodivergent people, social thinking, managing anxiousness.

What I’m good at: Listening. Writing. Cooking (cakes!).

What I’d like to be better at: Drawing and maths.

Anna Daniel

SEN Identification and Access Specialist

Areas of interest: Understanding how we all learn, accessibility of exams.

What I’m good at: Learning through doing things myself rather than watching others.

What I’d like to be better at: Sewing and having more patience.