Targeted Education Support Service (TESS)

We are specialist, qualified and experienced teachers and educational practitioners who work with schools to support children and young people (aged 4-16) when learning progress, social, emotional or mental health are causing concern. We work with every school in the borough.

What we do

  • Provide specialist advice to support progress - through consultation, observation, modelling good practice and, where appropriate, assessment. We also offer a bespoke one to one teaching service to schools that includes modelling and coaching
  • Deliver training - on evidence-based interventions for literacy, mathematics, social skills and emotional development. Training also covers teachers’ awareness of SEND strategies, SEND Code of Practice, school and department of education policies and research updates around inclusion.

Getting help

Resources

We have produced a number of checklists and resources that draw upon wider research and knowledge to help schools and other settings support pupils with SEND.

Cognition and Learning

Dyslexia

Interventions

Literacy

Maths

Working Memory

Communication and Interaction

Autism

Sensory

Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN)

Physical and Sensory

Social Emotional Mental Health- SEMH

ADHD

Behaviour Support

EBSA

Emotional Health and Wellbeing

Useful Links

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