Headlines – Page 12 of 32

PostPosted: 23 Dec 2022Posted in Headlines

Christmas event brings some festive joy to families

Cognus hosted its first Families Christmas event on Thursday 15th December, in partnership with London Borough of Sutton’s Children’s Services. The event, held at Cognus’ office in Wallington, was an opportunity for invited Sutton families to gather information on local services, as well as take part in a range of inclusive festive activities -from face-painting […]

PostPosted: 22 Dec 2022Posted in Headlines

Working in Partnership with the University of Roehampton

Music Hubs work with their partner schools to support the development of high-quality music curriculums and extracurricular programmes. Sutton Music Service does this in a variety of ways. For example, our Big Sing concerts and the associated training workshops, our termly successful and well-attended TeachMeets, and bespoke packages created to meet the particular needs of […]

PostPosted: 13 Dec 2022Posted in Headlines

OT supports the P.E. department to ensure that students can develop skills in physical exercise

Cognus Therapies Occupational Therapist, Helen Gardner supports the Physical Education department at an SEN school to ensure that all students can develop skills in physical exercise Ensuring access to the curriculum is one of the most important roles we have as therapists at Cognus Limited. Helen Gardner, Lead Occupational Therapist has been […]

PostPosted: 12 Dec 2022Posted in Headlines

Sutton LSCP attend the Children and Young People Now Awards 2022

On 24th November 2022, Hayley Cameron, Education Safeguarding Manager, along with partners from Sutton LSCP, attended the Children and Young People Now Awards 2022 at The Hurlingham Club in London, after being shortlisted for their entry with the Child Safeguarding Toolkit. Now in their 17th year, the awards showcase the innovative services and impactful work […]

PostPosted: 9 Dec 2022Posted in Headlines

New logos for the Local Offer

Knots Art, a group specifically for girls with social communication difficulties, have designed some new logos! The girls worked really hard brainstorming things that were important to them and how they felt. The logos will be used on the Preparing for Adulthood pages of the Local Offer and at promotional events. […]

PostPosted: 8 Dec 2022Posted in Headlines

Developing Independence Skills

Read about some fun wheelchair sessions run by Whizz-Kidz at Sherwood Park School arranged by Ruby James, Occupational Therapist and Emily Porter, Senior Occupational Therapy Assistant for Cognus Therapies. In September, Cognus Therapies at Sherwood Park School organised for Whizz-Kidz to deliver some wheelchair skills sessions to eight students. The first session […]

PostPosted: 3 Dec 2022Posted in Headlines

Festive Finalists within our Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community

The Traveller Movement (https://travellermovement.org.uk/) is a charity that supports the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community in England and Wales and helps challenge discrimination against GRT people. They recently ran a national art competition open to all GRT children to find a design for their official 2022 Christmas card. Cognus’ Traveller Education Service promoted the competition […]

PostPosted: 15 Nov 2022Posted in Headlines

CFCS Education Navigator provides an update on Children Missing Education (CME)

A child ‘Missing Education’ is a child of compulsory school age who is NOT a registered pupil at a school and is NOT receiving suitable education otherwise than at a school (e.g., home educated or receiving paid for tuition). The CME inbox is always busy, servicing not only all communications from Sutton Schools relating to on and off rolling, but also […]

PostPosted: 3 Nov 2022Posted in Headlines

Speech and Language Therapist supports a Post-16 learner, as they navigate parenthood for the first time

Grace Mullin, Speech and Language Therapist at Cognus Therapies, supports a Post-16 learner as they navigate parenthood for the first time As a speech and language therapist, it is our role to ensure that we are continually supporting and preparing our learners for adulthood. This means that our work goes far beyond the classroom and […]

PostPosted: 20 Oct 2022Posted in Headlines

Cognus Therapies deliver “exceptional” training to Sutton Social Care Services

Cognus Therapies had the pleasure of delivering a half day training to Sutton Social Care at the Civic Centre on the 29th June 2022 from two specialist therapists, working with alternative augmentative communication (AAC) at Sherwood Park School (Sherwood Hill Campus), Tessa O’Brien (Speech and Language Therapist) and Olivia Thompson (Occupational […]