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  • What happens and when - Year 9 (age 13-14)

    2. independent living 3. community inclusion, friends and relationships 4. health Your views and those of your family must be included. Education, training and finding employment You will choose your GCSE subjects at school. You may study other qualifications. You may want to start thinking about post-16 options. You can talk to your teachers about opportunities for work placements, work experience and volunteering. Developing independence Start thinking about the life skills you need to learn. For example: travel budgeting cooking housekeeping Talk to your school to think about how they can help you with these. Also think about how you can practise these skills at home You might want to think about independent travel training. This is to help you travel from home to school on your own. Ask about having some funded support from Children’s Social Care…

  • What happens and when - Year 10 (age 14-15)

    If you have an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan Annual reviews from Year 9 onwards must have a focus on preparing for adulthood. Outcomes should be reviewed and updated as needed. If you are looking at leaving your current school after Year 11, think about what help you need to move to the next setting. Plan visits to taster sessions and ask your school to invite post-16 providers to review meetings. This is to help your move be successful. SENDSARS will ask for your post-16 choices over the summer term of Year 10 into autumn of Year 11. Education, training and finding… internships, training providers and voluntary opportunities. Ask your school about post-16 support and planning advice. You should experience work placements/vocational opportunities. You should also be invited to talk to a careers specialist to put the beginning of a plan in place. Developing…

  • What happens and when - Year 11 (Age 15-16)

    and look at a range of options. Ask your school about post-16 support and planning advice. Apply for school sixth form or college place. Please visit www.sheffield.gov.uk/schools-childcare/apply-school-place for information on school sixth form or college place application deadlines. Check websites… on the course and setting. Think about what you will do on the remaining days and any support that you need. REMEMBER: The school year finishes early in Year 11. This is regardless of whether you are taking exams or not. It finishes either on the last Friday in June or earlier because of study leave. Check with your school in good time so you can plan what to do when you are not in school. Developing independence It is assumed you will be able to make many decisions for yourself once you turn 16. Services will often contact you direct. The Mental Capacity Act is about people age 16+ who are unable…

  • What happens and when - Year 12 (age 16-17)

    If you have an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan The annual review process continues. If you need support in the future from adult social care, you should be referred to the Transitions social care teams. If you need SEN Transport to get to your post-16 setting, you will need to re-apply each year. It is not an automatic entitlement after compulsory school age. You may want to ask your parent/carer to help with this. Your parents/carers will have to make a contribution. You may be able to get a 16-19 bursary to help with this cost. Ask your post-16 provider for information about… bursary to help with education costs. Ask your post-16 provider for more information. Developing independence You might want to think about independent travel training. This is to help you travel from home to college on your own. Friends, relationships and community Look at any out-of-school…

  • What happens and when - Years 13 and 14 (Age 17-19)

    If you have an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan The annual review process continues. Your EHC plan may be ceased if you are: accessing higher education (e.g. university) accessing paid work aged 18 or over and have left education and you no longer wish to do any further learning. leaving the local authority and moving to another area. If you need SEN Transport to get to your post-16 setting, you will need to re-apply each year. It is not an automatic entitlement after compulsory school age. You may want to ask your parent/carer to help with this. Your parents/carers… ask the Sheffield Carers Centre for a carer’s assessment when you turn 18. You might want to think about independent travel training. This is to help you travel from home to college on your own. Friends, relationships and community Look at any out-of-school/college activities you want to do…

  • What happens and when - Age 19-25

    If you have an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan The local authority can maintain an EHC plan until you turn 25. They will end/close the plan if you move onto higher education, paid work or leave education. As long as the EHC plan continues, the local authority must continue to review it each year. Relevant services should still be involved in the annual review process. If you have an EHC plan and leave education but then decide to return, the local authority will consider if the previous EHC plan should be reopened and renewed. This is only if you are under 25 years old. It is possible that you will have to go through the full EHC needs assessment if there have been major changes. Education, training and finding employment If you are 19, you cannot remain in a special school. This is unless you are doing a secondary education course that you started before you were 18…

  • Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plans - Transition Guide

    and getting good support friends, relationships and being part of a community achieving as healthy a life as possible How to prepare for an annual review You may start to think more about what you want to do when you finish your education. Your school or college will talk to you about transition planning. They will give you some information. Before the annual review meeting discuss with school or college if it would be appropriate for you to attend the meeting. your school or college should ask for your views before the meeting and share this information. They will be able to help you with this. your school or college will arrange the annual review meeting. Let them know if you or your parent/carer cannot attend so that they can arrange a different date. your school or college will ask relevant professionals to attend. They will ask them to send up-to-date information about you…

  • Education, Employment and Training GCSEs and Help in Exams Transition Guide

    for GCSE exams. You can ask your school about other accredited qualifications. This is you are not working at the levels needed for GCSEs. Special schools have a curriculum for the needs of their pupils. Some focus on teaching life skills. Most offer fewer opportunities to get qualifications like… Arrangements. Some Access Arrangements can be given by a school or college based on your normal way of working. Access Arrangements like extra time are given by exam boards. Students must reach certain levels in approved assessments. Official assessors complete them so that you can be given this. Your school or college can arrange these assessments. Access Arrangements allow students with SEND or temporary injuries to do exams. This is without making changes to the level of the exam. Access Arrangements should have been talked about and put in place from Year 10. Access Arrangements…

  • Post 16 Education Transition Guide

    Post 16 Education - Transition Guide Post 16 Education You must continue in education or training until the end of the academic year when you turn 18. This could involve: full time study in a school, college or training provider an apprenticeship or supported internship full time work or volunteering (20 hours or more) combined with part time accredited study Post 16 Education Providers Sheffield has a range of post 16 education settings. Click on the buttons below to find out more. …

  • Leisure Transition Guide

    club if agreed by SNIPS. This would either be: one session of up to 5 hours per week, during the school holidays, or alternate Saturday sessions of up to 5 hours during term time, or one session after school per week during term time A member of the SNIPS team will meet you to find out…