Katherine Rose

Katherine Rose is a Special Educational Needs specialist, working for over 20 years with young people aged 3 to 16+ in a variety of educational settings. As a SENCO and school senior leader, she has a wealth of experience and knowledge across all aspects of children’s academic and wider learning needs.

For the past 12 years Katherine has been SENCO and Inclusion Lead of a large primary and nursery school, alongside her roles as Mental Health First Aider and the Designated Looked After Children and Safeguarding Lead.

She has been responsible for the early identification of and planning and overseeing provision for any learning needs, in collaboration with pupils, parents, family, teachers and external agencies.

She is an experienced SEND trainer, coach and mentor for staff and parents and headed up a team of 30 support staff. She is a strong advocate, voice, and often mediator, for all those involved in the life of each pupil – the pupil, parents/family and school team.

She takes pride in quickly forming trusted, nurturing and confident relationships with pupils and adults. She is particularly skilled at recognizing and unpicking problems swiftly, and often imaginatively, to find resources, lasting strategies and positive outcomes.

She has a particular specialism, knowledge and interest in the neurodiverse learning needs of pupils and how underlying self esteem, resilience, anxiety and mental health problems can interplay.

Katherine is dedicated to supporting pupils, parents and school teams to understand how to learn to what makes each pupil tick and above all how to “join the dots” for every pupil so that they can be happy, thrive, be resilient and confident and reach their potential.