The team consists of specialist teachers who provide a service for children and their parents in mainstream schools and settings, including the home.
We support children with a range of physical difficulties and medical conditions within the age range birth to 25 years in accordance with the Matrix of Need for Bradford.
Children are referred via the form below or through notification from health professionals via an EA1 Form.
Children/ Students may have difficulties in the following areas:
Specific physical and medical conditions.
Accessing the curriculum because of constraints of physical disability.
Movement around school.
Fine motor skills (handwriting, pencil control, and scissor skills).
To offer high quality support for all children through a collaborative approach to provide transformational learning experiences so that children can flourish and make excellent holistic progress and successfully transition to responsible citizens.
Range of Service
We give advice on the following:
Transition across school phases and between settings
Range of facilities and accessibility of different schools.
Specialist and adapted equipment.
Making buildings and the curriculum accessible.
Pupil specific resources for ICT.
On meeting manual handling needs of pupils.
Support given
Information about specialist equipment.
Ensure appropriate facilities and / or programmes are in place to meet the physical / medical needs of the child in conjunction with health professionals.
Ensure a personal care policy / medical care plan is in place if necessary.
Contribute to statutory assessment procedures.
Attend and contribute to Annual Review.
Advise on differentiation, teaching strategies and resources.
Contribute to short term targets.
Liaise with outside agencies, parents and school staff.
Accompany parents on school visits.
Do you have a child with physical needs who is struggling with their handwriting? Are you looking for suggestions of how to help them at home?
The Physical & Medical Team Specialist Teachers are pleased to offer a Parent Webinar on Thursday 30th March 2023. This will be a 30 minute session (12:30- 1:00pm) over Microsoft Teams to look at how handwriting difficulties can be supported at home. It is open to all parents of children who have physical needs who attend mainstream schools, with a particular focus on primary school aged children.
The session is free to attend and your child does not have to be on the Physical & Medical Team’s caseload. Please emailDeborah.craig@bradford.gov.ukbefore 23rd March to book your place and receive the Teams link. We hope to see you there!
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