Quality Effectiveness and Support Team

What we do

Promote and support the inclusion of children and young people with additional needs.
Work across the phases from nursery to Year 11 to support Oldham schools to provide for pupils with additional needs.
Provide schools with access to a team of teachers with qualifications and expertise in communication and interaction, cognition and learning, social emotional and behavioural development and knowledge of interventions that work.
Work in partnership with schools to identify and support areas for development to improve outcomes for children and young people with additional needs.
Monitor progress of individual pupils and groups of pupils with additional needs.
Support and challenge schools to ensure there is universal quality effective provision for children with additional needs in Oldham schools.

Pat Williams (Team Leader) Early Years and Transition, Links with Primary and Secondary Strategies, Children with Medical Conditions and Syndromes, AEN traning

Pam Hutchinson (Coordinator Area 1 and 2) Severe Learning Difficulties, Early Years and Foundation Stage Transition, Children out of Borough (Primary)

Jenny Colley (Coordinator Area 3 and 4) Dyslexia, Behaviour (Secondary), transition, Anti-bullying Project

Rowan Braidley (Coordinator Area 5 and 6) AEN in Literacy, Dyslexia, ICT Software

Maggie Frost (Specialist SEBD Coordinator) Links with Spring Brook Flexible Provision, DCSF Trainer for TAs (AEN), Speech, Language and Communication

Maria Barber (Specialist ASD Coordinator) Links with Resourced Provision for CCD at St Paul’s and Counthill Schools

Hazel Moss (Advisory Teacher) ASD/Aspergers

Kate Griffiths (Advisory Teacher) Dyslexia, DCSF Trainer for TAs, HLTA Trainer, EYPS Assessor, NVQ Assessor and Internal Verifier

Afroza Talukdar (Advisory Teacher) Dyspraxia, EAL and AEN

Emma Willsher (Advisory Teacher) Speech, Language and Communication

Sheila Thorp (Advisory Teacher) Dyslexia

Louse Pennington (Advisory Teacher) AEN in Maths, Dyscalculia

Marie Lees (Advisory Teacher) Speech, Language and Communication

How to contact us

By Post

QEST
Limeside Primary School
Fourth Avenue
Oldham
OL8 3SB

Availability

The office is staffed Monday to Friday from 8.45am to 4.00pm

Team Leader Pat Williams

Telephone: 0161 770 8620
Fax: 0161 681 5906
Email: pat.williams@oldham.gov.uk