SEND Areas of Need

SEND areas of need

Cognition and learning – Lead Specialist: Mr Ramsey

• Regular, individually focused intervention
• Practical aids for learning
• Reading material suited to age
• Phonic development programme/1:1 phonics support.
• Catch Up literacy and numeracy.
• Access to technical aids e.g. spell checker, ICT software and/or hardware
• Exam access arrangements.
• Targeted QFT.
• Opportunities for overlearning through repetition and reinforcement.

Social, emotional and mental health – Lead Specialist: Miss Jackson

• Access to counselling services.
• Supported transition programmes with all secondary schools.
• Small group work targeting social, emotional and mental health difficulties.
• Zones of Regulation
• Resilience intervention.
• Supported transition programmes with all secondary schools.
• 1:1 mentoring.
• Timetable modifications.
• Behaviour intervention.
• Carefully selected tutor groups.

Communication and Interaction – Lead Specialist: Miss Worley

• Access to small group and/or individualised interventions to develop skills in communication, interaction, emotional awareness and self-care.
• Visual timetables.
• Access to low stimulus area or safe area.
• Flexible approaches to timetable.
• Modifications to lunch and/or break times.
• Access to technology where appropriate.
• Explicit teaching of generalising skills from one context to another
• Careful planning of transitions.
• Mentoring and/or buddy systems.

 Sensory and Physical needs – Lead Specialist: Miss Ferguson

• Additional in class support as appropriate.
• Resource adaptions.

• Access to ICT.
• Concrete apparatus available to support learning
• Adapted curriculum to enable full access
• Regular liaison with specialist external agencies