Learning Support, what is a SENCO? LSC? Explained with Lizzie Bayliss
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Hi and welcome to School Shorts with me Melissa Chan-Green, journalist and mum of two with a passion for education. Education has so many acronyms, surely the most of any sector. Today we are speaking to someone who is an LSC, a SENCO, a DP and an MUM which is Not actually an acronym, but mum is a really important job, so I feel like it maybe should have one. We're going to talk about what some of those roles actually are, because as a parent, you don't often find out what a SENCO or an LSC is until you really need the support of them. And then you think, I wish I'd known a little bit about this earlier. So Lizzie Bayliss is going to help us break that all down and she's also going to share how she is sharing the expertise of teachers with other teachers and a community of educators who are constantly learning and I guess wanting to improve their practice and also improve the way that they can show up to work every day as well.
Lizzie Bayliss, thank you so much for being with us. Yeah, thank you for having me here today. So as I said, Deputy Principal, Learning Support Coordinator, a SENCO, an entrepreneur, you're a founder of a national journal called Every Day, and you're a mum. You clearly like being busy, or you just like to torture yourself.
Yeah.
I've actually been reflecting on that a lot lately because sometimes, you know, you only have yourself, you know, like I'm the reason why I'm busy. But I think somewhere in there it is just about growth. I have had points in time in my life where I have scaled things back and worked part-time roles, which has been awesome and given me extra space. Mm-hmm. But I think, like I said, something around the growth, the learning, the, you know, striving to contribute more.
And although it sounds like quite a range of roles and experience, is there something that's like an underlying thread that is the thing that drives you? Do you look for a certain goal or ambition in the work that you do that is common through all of those roles?
I guess... um for me obviously my main obviously I'm mother first and foremost like that's like the best job in the world um I've got two kids 13 and 14 and it's just so awesome to watch them grow up um but my full-time role is DP um and then I have every day is a bit of a a a side hustle, I guess. And I have a collab going on there with another organisation called Schoolkit. But I think it's something around the, and I actually think it is the creativity in education. Some people think it's not very creative, but it's about kind of creating something and then mostly contributing to the world.
Because you, yeah, previously you've been, you founded a fashion company, which I guess is also about creativity.
Yeah, and it is also about creativity and creating something. And I guess the project and watching it, you know, come together and there's that whole creative process where you think it's amazing. Then it's like terrible and you see it kind of come together. And then something in me and I still aesthetically, you know, like the whole idea behind the journal was it was, aesthetically beautiful.
What roles do SENCO and LSC play in supporting students?
But somewhere towards the end of my career in fashion, I just felt like I wanted to kind of contribute more, maybe in a more meaningful way. And it was my husband that suggested, we actually didn't have kids yet, that I'd make a great teacher. And it was a career that I'd never, never contemplated. And I was grateful that I had done a BABcom previously, so I was able to do the one year. And it was just the most awesome year to be able to throw yourself into study. But yeah, I just absolutely loved studying and then kind of opening your eyes to, you know, how kids learn and the brain. And yeah, the opportunities really are endless. Yeah.
And I think anyone listening, whether they're a parent or a teacher, is probably listening because they've got the same kind of interest in education and learning too. So I'm sure they'll be really interested in the work that you do with the everyday journals especially.
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