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SEN Consultancy Advice & Training

07960 653006 info@sencat.org

About us

We have worked within Bristol and its neighbouring counties over the last 25 years both in special and mainstream schools as teachers, SENCOs and senior leaders. We are passionate about supporting all SENCOs, teachers and teaching assistants to meet the needs of learners with SEND.
In recent years, as Learning Improvement Consultants for Bristol we ensured that the local authority SEND strategic plan was supported with a comprehensive training, briefing and consultation package to mainstream schools. For schools requiring improvement we delivered more focussed, bespoke packages.

Our Team

  • Alison Carmody

    B.Ed. PGDip Dyslexia and Literacy difficulties - AMBDA

    Alison has taught across all mainstream phases as well as specialist provision. She was an infant school SENCo and is currently a Deputy SENCo in a large secondary school, where she also teaches dyslexic students.
    Alison is an experienced assessor for exam access arrangements (EAA. She is keen to ensure that intervention is focused on better outcomes for the learners she teaches.

     alison.carmody@sencat.org

  • Jane Lindsay

    B.A (Hons) PGCE PGDip in both Language Impairment and Dyslexia and Literacy difficulties - AMBDA Assessment Practising Certificate holder (APC) and Patoss member

    Jane co-developed Kick Start Literacy for pupils at the earliest stages of reading and spelling. She is a licensed Elklan tutor and an associate tutor for Best Practice Network.
    An experienced dyslexia teacher, Jane also offers individual tuition for primary pupils at her home.

     jane.lindsay@sencat.org

  • Tracey Nairn

    B.Ed. (Hons) PGDip in SEN and Inclusion

    Tracey is a former Deputy Head and SENCo with many years’ classroom teaching experience from London to Bristol in both Special and mainstream schools. She was the Early Language Consultant for Bristol for two years and has co-written two widely used Bristol EY tools: ‘BECAT’ (Bristol Every Child a Talker) and ‘Auditing your Outdoor Provision’. She is a Specialist Lead Educator (SLE) with the Bristol EY teaching School for SEND in the EY and an experienced trainer across the city.
    Tracey is dedicated to supporting pupils to overcome difficulties with language and communication in the classroom and is a licensed tutor for ELKLAN and the Nuffield Early Language Intervention.

     tracey.nairn@sencat.org

  • Carol Wells

    B.Ed (Hons), PG Cert SpLD (Dyslexia)- AMBDA, Assessment Practicing Certificate holder (APC) and Patoss member

    Carol is a former mainstream primary school teacher and SENCo with many years experience of teaching pupils with SEND. She is dedicated to helping pupils overcome challenges experienced with literacy and numeracy and is an assessor for both dyslexia and exam access arrangements (EAA).
    Carol co-developed the Better Move On programme for pupils with motor co-ordination difficulties and Kick Start to Literacy for pupils at the earliest stages of phonic acquisition/literacy development.

     carol.wells@sencat.org