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Working with children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, parents and schools to enable all children to thrive

About Katy

I am a fully qualified, successful and highly experienced primary teacher and leader with over twenty years’ experience of working in primary schools.

Experience

Deputy Head
SENCo
Inclusion Manager (English as an Additional Language, Pupil Premium and SEND)
SEN Advisor for Merton Local Authority
Mental Health Lead (SMHL trained)
Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead
Class teacher
Drawing and Talking practitioner
Group Theraplay practitioner
Specialist Dyslexia Teacher

Qualifications

Accredited Teacher Status (Specialist Dyslexia Teacher)
Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCo Award)
Senior Mental Health Lead
BA (QTS) Hons
Drawing and Talking practitioner
Group Theraplay practitioner
Nurture trained

Parents

I offer the following support and guidance for parents:

SEND processes at schools - what to expect and what to ask for
Graduated Approach of ‘assess, plan, do, review’ school processes and the use of inclusive strategies
Applying for an Education, Health and Care Plan
Annual/ Interim Reviews
Guidance on when and how to involve other professionals (Educational Psychology, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, CAMHS)
Writing referrals
Understanding professional reports (EP, CAMHS, SaLT, OT) and planning the support
Use of social stories and comic strip conversations
Strategies to reduce anxiety/ manage behaviour
Writing One Page Profiles
Managing homework!

Support and guidance can either be face to face or online.

Children

I provide tutoring for children with a range of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.

Children are supported by a tailored approach to meet their individual needs:

Use of strategies and approaches e.g. modelling of learning, manipulatives and visuals, offering choices (in task and how to complete it), adapting the language used, providing movement breaks etc.
Adaptations of the curriculum to ensure children can access learning at a level which is right for them
Use of appropriate interventions e.g. Sound Linkage (phonological awareness difficulties), Colourful Semantics (to develop oral and written language), Zones of Regulation (emotional regulation), Word Aware (vocabulary teaching), Precision teaching and handwriting etc.

Teaching your child

I like to work face to face with children as I find this is much more supportive to children and has a far greater impact on progress than online. I have a teaching area set up in my home in Wimbledon.

A Tutoring Plan is written for each ‘block’ of work (5 or 10 weeks) which is agreed with you. Each lesson is carefully planned with feedback shared verbally or sent to you via email. At the end of each block, the Tutoring Plan is formally reviewed and shared with you.

Specialist Teaching for Children with Dyslexia

As an Accredited Specialist Teacher for children with Dyslexia, I provide a structured, cumulative, sequential approach to meet your child’s needs.

Following initial assessments, a detailed plan of support will be written and agreed with parents/carers prior to starting work. Lessons planned are multi-sensory and individualised to your child’s interests and incorporate the identified areas of need which will include some or all of the following:

Phonological awareness
Alphabet work
Phonics
Handwriting
Whole word reading
Whole word spelling

Non-word reading
Reading comprehension
Creative writing
Maths
Study Skills

A weekly written update is provided to you

Drawing and Talking

Drawing and Talking is a gentle and safe therapeutic approach which provides an effective way for children to process emotional pain and trauma that they are or have experienced. People are impacted emotionally by many different events, struggles or traumas. Sometimes they are unable to make sense of how they are feeling and how those feelings are impacting on their happiness and ability to navigate the world.

Drawing and Talking is not intended to be used as a tool to ‘find out’ what is wrong or why the child behaves in the way that they do. It is not used to ‘fix’ a child's difficulties.

It is advised that Drawing and Talking takes place for 30 minutes per week over a twelve week period. Each of the sessions allows the child to play, by drawing a picture, and process any emotions they are holding internally in a safe and non-confrontational way, working at their own pace.

Schools

As an experienced leader who is highly motivated, diligent and conscientious, I am passionate about education, inclusion and equity within schools.

Leadership

Policy writing - SEND, Behaviour, Equality, Teaching and Learning, Anti-Bullying etc
Whole school approaches to: inclusion, behaviour, pupil voice
School Information for website

Staff

Monitoring and supporting inclusive practice
Mentoring - teachers/ TAs
Training - whole school approach
- Inclusive practice/ Quality First teaching
- Meeting the needs of children with - ASD, ADHD, Dyslexia, DCD, Working Memory difficulties etc.
- Growth Mindset
- Behaviour management
- Word Aware
- Zones of Regulation
- One Page Profiles
- Writing effective support plans
- Working with parents/carers

Intervention Training

Precision Teaching
Sound Linkage
Social Stories
Comic Strip Conversations
Colourful Semantics
Zones of Regulation
Word Aware
Think Good Feel GoodReciprocal Reading approach
Handwriting
Multi-sensory Spelling

Children

Inclusive practice to meet individual needs
Intervention provision: Sound Linkage, Reciprocal Reading, Group Theraplay, Drawing and Talking, Colourful Semantics, Precision Teaching, Zones of Regulation etc
Surveys
Social Groups
Circle of Friends
Tutoring
Social stories and Comic Strip Conversations
One Page Profiles

Parents & Carers

Surveys
Home school communication books
workshops / briefings

SEND Processes

Support and Behaviour Plans - Assess Plan Do, Review
Individual Risk Assessment
EHCP writing
Annual review - paperwork, planning, meeting, write-up
Intervention guidance

SEND Assessment and Reasonable Adjustments

Providing Guidance and Support
Use of the Graduated Response Tool for termly summative assessmentUnderstanding the Boxall Profile
Assessments: Test of Abstract Language Comprehension (TALC), York Assessment for Reading Comprehension (YARC), Phonological Awareness assessment, Helen Arkell Spelling Test (HAST-2)
Individual Assessment against National curriculum objectives

Testimonials

A selection of testimonials from a wide range of people I have worked with:

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We have known Katy Waters both in her capacity as school SENCO and as a private tutor - she is one of those rare people who is able to make you feel really listened to. In both roles we have found her to be incredibly kind, supportive and flexible and are very grateful for all her help and advice. Plus all the kids love her.

Laura Ferguson
Mrs Waters is a very positive, helpful and professional tutor. She helps my son build his confidence with English. She is sending us a report about his progress every 5 weeks. Everything is explained in a way that we all understand. My son enjoys her lessons very much and looks forward to getting there. He absolutely loves Mrs Waters and we recommend her to anyone considering tutoring.

Mariela Felonova
Katy has worked with my son for more than a year. He started as a’ mid' learner but has made lots of progress. His English skills and handwriting have both improved enormously. I can’t thank her enough.

Mum of a child in Year 3
Our child had worked with tutors and had maths interventions over a number of years prior to us being introduced to All Children Can. We saw little difference in our child’s maths' ability or understanding throughout this time and more importantly, witnessed her confidence in maths lowering as the years passed by. She has struggled with maths since early years and no one had quite managed to identify the whys and where’s and just exactly what the gaps were. Our child developed deep anxiety and lacked confidence in the classroom as she just wasn’t “getting it” and recognised that that many other children were. She's been working with Katy for the last 4 months or so and her Maths confidence, attitude and approach has been transformational. For a child that finds maths challenging, she’s more enthusiastic about learning maths than ever before. Her increase in confidence and new found ability to understand maths in a way that suits her needs allows her to enjoy maths with an “I can do it” attitude which quite simply is remarkable. We truly cannot thank her enough as our daughter is a much happier and confident child as a result.

Dionne
She made special play dough just for me to practise my words in.

Y2 child
The support that we, as a family, received from Katy as our SENCo was instrumental in ensuring that our son received the support he required right from the beginning of his schooling. Katy’s wealth of experience and guidance helped us through our son’s diagnosis and was fundamental as we navigated our way successfully through the EHCP process. Katy always showed us compassion and understanding and she truly believes that given the right support all children can thrive.

Tanya Harris
We worked with Katy for a number of years at Dundonald Primary. Both of our children have SEN needs and we found Katy to be a dedicated, caring and knowledgeable SEN teacher. Her expertise and passion for supporting students truly shines through in all that she does, and we know that she would be an invaluable asset to any student or family in need of support. Katy supported us through multiple referrals and applications and was always available to give support. With her level of knowledge about SEN, she was able to offer practical advice and strategies that the school could implement to support our girls and she directed us to where we could find help to support our children at home. Thanks to Katy's support and guidance, our children have made significant progress and are enjoying their learning and experience at school. We cannot thank her enough for all that she has done for our family. She is an exceptional SEN teacher who truly cares about her students and their families. We are very grateful to have had her in our lives.

Nina Austin

Contact Katy

Email - info@allchildrencan.com