Guiding Principle
Our guiding principle is one of Inclusion. We want to identify and break down possible barriers to learning.
Objectives in making provision for students with SEN
- We value all students in our school equally.
- To ensure that all students have equal access to a broad, balanced curriculum which is differentiated to meet individual needs and abilities.
- The aims of education for students with difficulties and disabilities are the same as those for all students. All students are entitled to experience success.
- It is the responsibility of all teachers to identify and meet the SEN of students. In this they can draw on the resources of the whole school.
- Every student is entitled to have his or her particular needs recognised and addressed.
- To offer high quality support to ensure that all needs are met.
- To maximise the opportunities for students with special educational needs to join in with all the activities of the school.
- Consideration of SEN crosses all curriculum areas and all aspects of teaching and learning.
- To acknowledge and draw on parent/carer knowledge and expertise in relation to their child as all special education provision is more effective if students and parents/carers are fully involved.
- To seek the views of the child and take them into account.
This policy will contribute to achieving these objectives by ensuring that provision for pupils with SEN is a matter for the whole school and is a part of the continuous cycle of assessment and review.
Identification and Assessment of Students with Special Educational Needs
All students are entitled to a balanced and broadly based curriculum. This policy ensures that teaching arrangements and strategies are fully inclusive.
In order to work successfully with students who have special needs we must ensure that pupils' needs are identified as early as possible. In order to achieve this we have certain procedures in place.
- The school has excellent links with feeder schools and considerable information will be collected about each student before they arrive at the school. This will include SATs results, Teacher Assessment and where a student is placed on the SEN register.
- During their first week at the school each student is screened for reading age, freestyle writing and mathematical ability.
- In the first half term Year 7 pupils will sit MIDYIS, CATs tests that provide the school with detailed information about academic strengths and weaknesses of each student.
- Parents/carers, health visitors or other professionals may raise concerns about a student's learning difficulties; these should be fully explored by a member of the SEN team and feedback given.
The Governing Body will ensure that it makes appropriate provision for all students identified as having need of special educational provision. The Principal and the Governing Body set targets and specific criteria for the success of the SEN policy.
The Governing Body reviews the policy and reports annually on the allocation of available resources and the success of the policy in meeting SEN.
