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Cognus Education Safeguarding Team start the New Year with a round of Safeguarding Reviews in our Sutton Schools
In January 2025, the Education Safeguarding Team conducted Safeguarding Reviews in two of our Primary Schools, St. Cecilia’s Catholic Primary School and St. Dunstan’s Cheam Church of England Primary School. As we all know safeguarding does not stand still. It is so useful to go through our safeguarding practices and processes and to get external […]Attendance Matters
The Traveller Education Service works closely with schools, families and the Attendance Service to promote the importance of good attendance. One particular family that we have worked continuously with to encourage good attendance and engagement with school has made a massive improvement. The Year 3 pupil’s attendance so far this academic year is over 90% […]Year 7 Nativity brings Christmas joy with a heart-warming performance from students at The John Fisher School
Staff from Cognus Therapies, including the school’s Occupational Therapist (OT) Amber Burnett who work in partnership with the school, joined students, staff, families and visitors, in a heart-warming display of bravery, resilience, and festive spirit. Year 7 students from Catherine Class at The John Fisher School gathered together for a special Nativity, celebrating the joy […]Cognus Education Safeguarding Team get involved in Christmas Activities for Families
During the month of December, the Education Safeguarding Team were lucky enough to be involved in a range of different Christmas activities for families. On Tuesday 3rd December 2024, we attended the Sutton Music Trust Autistic Youth Choir Concert. The children put on a great show and there were lots of smiles and laughter. This […]Read more on Cognus Education Safeguarding Team get involved in Christmas Activities for Families
Christmas Office Closure
Please note that Cognus Limited will be closed for the Christmas and New Year Holiday from Wednesday 25th December – Wednesday 1st January 2025 inclusive. We will have limited staff checking our main email account, enquiries@cognus.org.uk for any URGENT matters, so if you call and leave a voicemail, please ensure you leave your name, contact […]Festive fun at Cognus Families’ Christmas Event
More than 25 families enjoyed an afternoon at Cognus’ offices in Wallington on Monday 16th December, as we hosted our third Cognus Families’ Christmas Event. This event was an opportunity for families we work with to attend an information fair covering many local services that support children and young people in Sutton, including Sutton Information, […]Read more on Festive fun at Cognus Families’ Christmas Event
SEND success: A time for reflection of 2024
2024 has been a big year for Cognus’ SEND Team and the families we support. Our team has written, co-produced and issued 347 new EHCPs, reviewed and maintained 2,540 EHCPs, and processed more than 500 Requests to Assess and 380 Requests to Issue. Behind these numbers is close collaboration with families, colleagues, schools and other […]Joint Working to support a secondary school pupil with Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)
Below is an overview of how two Speech and Language Therapists have worked together to support and empower a student with specific and ongoing speech difficulties, devising and implementing functional and meaningful goals with the student Next steps for speech and language therapy: Jodie will carry out a questionnaire to find out what future speech […]Therapies Post 16 Assessment Clinic achieves success for another year!
The Academic Year 2023-24 saw the continuation of Cognus Therapies Post 16 Assessment Clinic. Emma Perridge (Occupational Therapist, OT) and Ashlea Stephens (Speech and Language Therapist, SaLT) set up the clinic in September 2022, following a number of referrals into the Therapies service for the same young people (both OT and SaLT assessments and reports). […]Read more on Therapies Post 16 Assessment Clinic achieves success for another year!