ELP primary and secondary SENCo celebration conference 5 March 2025

Event details

• Date: Wednesday 5 March 2025
• Time: 9am - 3.30pm
• Venue: TrailFinders, Vallis Way, W13 0DD

About the day

Your opportunity to strategise and reflect with key note speakers throughout the day, engage with a marketplace of exhibitors that offer services in Ealing, and network with colleagues from different schools and services.

Agenda

• Welcome and introduction followed by keynote speakers to inspire and motivate delegates with their expertise, experiences and insights.
• Voices of Resilience: A Young Person's Journey with Key note speaker Lydia Thevarasa, Youth Social Network.
• Enhancing student potential: Neurodiversity affirming approaches and practice - Keynote Speaker Kerry Murphy
• Enhancing student potential: Occupational therapy in education - Keynote Speaker Esther Mellor
• Marketplace exhibitors sharing their outreach and service offers
• Coffee, tea, lunch and after conference bar to 5:30pm

About the key note speakers

Lydia Thevarasa: Voices of resilience: A young person's journey

Lydia is a member of Ealing’s Youth Social Network, which was set up in 2023 to give a voice to 13 to 23 year-olds in the borough with additional needs and disabilities. YSN run a successful youth conference and meet regularly to discuss a range of topics.

Kerry Murphy: Enhancing student potential: Neurodiversity affirming approaches and practice in mainstream schools

Kerry Murphy is a Consultant at Ealing and an associate lecturer at Goldsmiths University, London teaching on the PGCE. Kerry is currently completing her doctorate on the pathologisation of self-directed play in neurodivergent and disabled children. She has lived experience of neurodivergence identifying as autistic and ADHD.

Esther Mellor: Enhancing student potential: Occupational therapy in education

Esther is an occupational therapist, working with individuals and their families from nursery to young adulthood. She is currently providing universal occupational therapy guidance across primary and secondary schools in Ealing, whilst also maintaining her own varied and complex EHCP caseload across London. Esther has a lived experience of neurodivergence, with a diagnosis of dyspraxia and dyscalculia.

Outcomes

You will

• meet like minded colleagues in person and build your professional network;
• expand your knowledge, and find potential solutions to problems
• stay informed, exploring current themes in SEND.

Booking information

Free to ELP schools. Book via Ealing CPD online. Lunch, tea and coffee provided.
Non ELP schools will be charged - £48 per delegate

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