Meet the Teams

Here is some information on the therapy and nursing teams that visit the children at Manor Mead.  Please feel free to contact the teams by phoning into school or sending a message via the home-school book.

Speech and Language Therapy (SLT)

Kate Bramley      Natalie Gey van Pittius      Sarah Bird

Paige Tamea       Jess Card

Kate Bramley is our team lead, and is supported by Natalie Gey Van Pittius (SLT) and Sarah Bird (SLT assistant) at Shepperton. Paige Tamea (SLT) and Jess Card (SLT) are at Virginia Water. You can contact the teams sending a message via your child’s teacher, through ClassDojo or by phoning or emailing.

At Shepperton, if your child is in Blue, Yellow, Red, Purple, or Rainbow 2 Class or you want to discuss swallowing concerns for any child in the school then please contact Kate (Kate.Bramley@surreycc.gov.uk).

If your child is in Green, Orange, White, Rainbow 1 or Pink then please contact Natalie (Natalie.GeyVanPittius@surreycc.gov.uk)

At Virginia Water, if your child is in Willow, Maple, Rowan, or Oak, please contact Paige (Paige.Tamea@surreycc.gov.uk).

If your child is in Pine or Sycamore, please contact Jess (Jessica.Card@surreycc.gov.uk).

The teams work closely with the class teams to embed communication strategies in all lessons and ensuring that all students can communicate to the best of their abilities in social activities.  We want to ensure each student has an effective way of communicating and they have reasons and opportunities to communicate. This will happen through the team spending time in classes supporting the staff and students, offering training, working with the school senior leadership team and problem solving as needs arise. We are guided by the children’s EHCPs but we are very much needs led and offer support tailored to the student’s current needs.

Therapists will also support with delivering training for school staff and provide advice around how to best embed activities and strategies across the school day. 

Occupational Therapy (OT)

Bee Costa    Georgia Doyle       Farrah Mahamoodally   Angela Wheeler   Mary Hogan

Angela Wheeler    Lindsey Trumble   Alison Hogan   Michele Verster

The OT service can support specialist educational settings to develop a ‘whole school’ approach to delivering occupational therapy. This involves the OT team working with the educational setting to facilitate incorporation of OT strategies, advice and activities as part of whole school and whole class practise. This enables the whole school population to access OT to enhance participation in daily activities as part of their daily routines.

We provide universal support which can be accessed through training, workshops and link sessions arranged through meetings with the Therapists when they visit the school and through joint working as part of the school routine to share practices and approaches.

In addition, the website; www.childrenshealthsurrey.nhs.uk has resources to support school and parents.

The OT team run a functional and sensory workshop for all parents once a year at Manor Mead school. Please look out for details of these in the school newsletter.

If parents have any queries regarding OT please discuss these with your class teacher.

Physiotherapy

Lesley Gray          Suzette Wannenburg        Emma Hopley

Suzette (1 day a week) and Lesley (2 days a week) are the lead therapists and your main contact for any queries about your child’s therapy input at Shepperton; this includes questions around equipment used to support their posture in sitting, standing or walking. The therapy team can be contacted via your child’s home-school book or by e-mail on suzette.wannenburg@nhs.net or l.gray7@nhs.net.  Emma (1 day a week) is a therapy assistant supporting the therapy provision.

Individual arrangements are made where physiotherapy is required. If your child is referred to the physiotherapy team, an assessment is completed to inform the setting of goals and provision of a physiotherapy programme. The physiotherapy team provide training, guidance and support to staff at the school in regard to therapeutic handling and use of equipment as well implementation of therapy programmes that are incorporated into the school day. 

We support the Orthotics service by facilitating regular clinics at school. 

Further information on our service and resources to support school and parents can be found on our website; www.childrenshealthsurrey.nhs.uk  

Nursing Team, based at Shepperton

Nurse

Alison Jefferies

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