Interventions offered at Guilsborough Academy 

Subject teachers and the Pastoral team can refer students to the SEND department if they feel a student would benefit from an additional intervention.

Internal Interventions:

Touch typing and IT skills - improves proficiency of students who use a laptop to access the curriculum. 

Handwriting - to improve fine motor skills, pencil grip and handwriting fluency. 

Literacy Gold - supports struggling readers to improve decoding, fluency and comprehension. It teaches all four skills needed to read: eye control, phonics, phonological awareness and vocabulary.  

Colourful Semantics - to support spoken and written language across the curriculum. 

Fresh Start - phonics programme to develop reading skills. 

SEND Homework club - homework support for students on the SEND register.

Social Skills - support to develop social skills including decision making, interacting with others and social stories. 

Zones of Regulation - framework to develop self-awareness, emotional control and resilience.

Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) - emotional and social skills support. 

Thrive - supports social and emotional wellbeing.

Counselling - on site school counsellor.

Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) interventions including Anxiety, Self-Esteem, Revision Stress, Anger Management and Low Mood. 

External Specialist Interventions:

SALT - Speech and Language Therapy

Educational Psychologist

Assistant Educational Psychologist 

Mental Health Support Team