In the first instance contact your child’s form tutor or subject teacher. They are responsible for:
You then may be directed towards to the Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENDCO).
The SENDCO is responsible for coordinating provision for children with SEND and developing the school’s SEND policy, ensuring that parents are:
The Head Teacher is responsible for the day to day management of all aspects of the school, including the provision made for pupils with SEND.
The SEND Governor is responsible for supporting school to evaluate and develop quality and impact of provision for pupils with SEND across the school.
For some pupils additional arrangements and adjustments can be made to enable them to fully access a range of tests. This might include additional time, rest breaks, use of a reader or scribe. The SENDCO will inform you about eligibility and applications for these arrangements.
In addition to planned differentiation in the classroom, the following range of interventions may be put in place to help overcome learning difficulties.
This includes:
We have reasonable access in place to ensure that pupils with SEN and Disability can take part in all aspects of school life. However, wheelchair access is limited to the 6th Form block, DT block, ground floor administration block, and new Performing Arts Block. No access to uppers floors in main building where library, some IT and Science department is located. Some classrooms have the Sound Field System to enhance the acoustic field for those pupils with hearing impairment.
An ongoing programme of training is in place to ensure that all teachers and support staff have appropriate skills and knowledge to support provision for children with SEND.
Our SENDCO actively engages in a range of opportunities to share best practice and keep abreast of current local and national initiatives and policy to support pupils with SEND.
The school also seeks advice and guidance from local services such as the Visual and Hearing Impairment services, to review, evaluate and develop provision for pupils who have the most complex needs.
We have staff with specialised expertise and qualifications including:
The school works with a number of external agencies to seek advice and support to ensure that the needs of all children are fully understood and met. These include:
Additionally, parents may wish to seek support from Family Lives Parent Partnership Service
The Parent Partnership Service provides independent information and advice and guidance for parents /carers of children and young people with SEN.
The SENDCO and/or Head of Year 7 will attend the Primary to Secondary Transition day meeting to discuss specific need of your child and the nature and level of support which has had the most impact.
On some cases additional multi-agency meetings may be arranged, or the SENDCO may attend the pupil’s termly review, in order to create a more detailed ‘transition’ plan which may include more visits to the new school and/or additional visits from the new school.
Children and young people with SEND can become particularly anxious about ‘moving on’, for example, to other Sixth Form provision, so we seek to support successful transition by:
Further information about support and services for pupils and their families can be found at: