SEYIS priorities for the 2025 to 2026 academic year
We’re developing a range of specialised curricula to support children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). These will be published soon and include:
- The Russet House Curriculum for use in mainstream schools
- Curriculum for pupils who speak English as an additional language (EAL)
- Phonics for pre-verbal children
- Sensory circuits for physical education (PE)
- Adaptations to help neurodiverse pupils take part in mainstream lessons
All parts of the Education Service continue to support schools across Enfield. We’ve reviewed pupil outcomes across all key stages and planned our next steps.
The following shows the main areas SEYIS will focus on, based on what we’ve learned from recent data:
- Early years and wraparound care: Quality of all provision
- Governance: Diversity on governing boards
- Projects:
- Launch Teaching Assistant (TA) advice
- New inspections
- New curricula
- Reading: Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) work – more schools awarded Reading for Pleasure Mark
- Disadvantaged Pupil Network: Embedding work
- Inclusion:
- Charter
- Enfield Trauma Informed Practice in Schools and Settings (E-TIPSS)
- Smartphone free childhood: Embed work – develop further outside LBE
- 13 to 16 work and post-16: 13 to 25 careers support – 16 to 18 not in education, employment, or training (NEET)
- Physical education:
- Physical literacy
- Leadership
- Inclusion
- Holiday activities and food programme: Special educational needs opportunities
- SEND: Dashboard for local authority and schools – post-school preparing for adulthood pathway
- RSHE new guidance: To be implemented by September 2026
- Inclusion CPD Grant: SEYIS has been allocated funding from the VRU to run a 1 year programme aimed at helping mainstream schools support children with SEN and EAL learners. The programme will provide training and resources to help schools improve their curriculum.