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Key Staff
Jon Hastie - SENCO
 Jon
has over 27 years experience of working with children, young people
and their families. He has worked for Social Services and Education
Departments as well as private organisations throughout the UK. He
has always had a very keen interest in ‘behaviour’ and has spent
some time working closely with family therapists.
Jon has worked at the school as Deputy Head of Care since 1999. In
2003 he was appointed to the post of Head of the Behaviour and
Education Support Team (BEST) in order to establish this support
service within the school. As a result of the work carried out by
BEST WKRS was awarded Specialist School Status in the area of SEN
(Behaviour) in 2007. Jon also has a role to play as part of the
Senior Leadership Team and is committed to improving outcomes for
the pupils and developing the skills of the workforce within the
school.
Jon has completed a National Programme for Specialist Leaders in
Behaviour and Attendance and also gained his Residential Managers
Award as well as an NVQ 4 “Working with Children and Young People”.
Jon was appointed to the post of SENCO (Special Educational Needs
Coordinator) for the school in September 2008, with specific
responsibility for ensuring that the school provides the appropriate
resources in order that each pupil can achieve to their full
potential, both socially and emotionally as well as academically.
Jon currently jointly runs the Special Educational Needs department
within WKRS, which is a busy and expanding department responsible
for making sure that the pupils get the best out of their time at
WKRS.
In August 2005 Jon was registered as Severely Sight Impaired and, as
a consequence of this, was matched with Guide Dog Yaron in August
2006. Yaron accompanies Jon to work every day and is extremely
popular with staff and pupils. .
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