Remember that feeling in the pit of your stomach, come mid-August and the holidays are disappearing all too quickly? Well, here are some steps you can take now, as a SENCO, to avoid that; you’ll thank me (and yourself) when you can swan out of school on time during those first weeks back. 1. Get dates in the diary Once you have your teaching timetable (if you teach) for the next academic year, you can start scheduling your annual review meetings. I suggest finding a..

In 2009 I decided I wanted to be a SENCO. Great. But what was to be my next step…? I had no idea how I could progress from geography teacher to SENCO. I did some research online (in ye olde days, before AI could tell us the answer to almost everything) and there seemed to be no clear path. Was there a qualification I could obtain? Was there a School for SENCOs? It would appear not. Fast forward to 2026 and the route into transitioning from teacher to SENCO seems no more