SEND
Abbey Primary School places great importance on meeting the needs of ALL children and young people in our school.
Abbey Primary School provides an inclusive, broad and balanced curriculum for all children including those with special educational needs. Some children will require additional help and support to access the curriculum and fully participate in learning.
We aim to meet the individual needs of all children at our school. We will set suitable learning challenges for different groups of pupils and respond to pupils adverse needs. We will overcome potential barriers to learning through making reasonable adjustments, to allow all children to access the curriculum, whatever their needs. Where necessary, we seek to access support from outside agencies and professionals to support our children’s ongoing needs. This may be support for an individual or group of children and may require visits or sessions with a range of professionals.
Partnership with parents plays a key role in enabling children with special educational needs to achieve their full potential. The school recognises that parents hold key information and have knowledge and experience to contribute to the shared view of a child’s needs and the best ways of supporting them.
Children with special educational needs will be encouraged to participate in the decision making process and contribute to the assessment of their needs, the review and transition process. Whatever a child’s special educational needs, their views will be sought to make sure we are supporting the whole child and not just their academic ability.
A range of interventions delivered by skilled and experienced staff will be put in place to support the differing needs in our school. This will include interventions to support specific skills as well as social and emotional needs. Whatever the needs of the child, we endeavour to do our upmost to support them and help them make progress and achieve their hopes and dreams.
Intent:
To identify all children who may have additional needs including social, emotional, and behavioural needs or concerns, as early as possible in their school development.
To ensure that all children are given appropriate support to allow a full access and entitlement to the whole school curriculum, by providing reasonable adjustments to the curriculum that are appropriate to the individual needs and ability.
To ensure that children with Special Educational Needs are fully integrated within the everyday school environment through individual support.
That children, parents, teaching and non-teaching staff and governors all work together in order to develop a partnership of support for children with special educational needs.
All school staff fully support the principle of inclusion.
To ensure all staff are skilled and trained to deliver high quality interventions.
Implementation:
Resources to support concentration, adjustments such as easy grip pencils and rulers, reading rulers and coloured overlays are all available for the children to access independently.
For those children who require additional scaffolds or supports to make learning easier, these are provided individually.
Sensory aids are available for those children with sensory needs containing resources such as ear defenders, fidget toys, and our sensory room is available for children.
Our Nurture Room:
We are proud of our nurture provision, children are identified to access nurture and can dip in and out where necessary. The curriculum in nurture is tailored to meet the child’s needs and is run by highly skilled and experienced SEN staff.
At Abbey we offer a range of interventions including;
Toe by Toe
Memory fix
Fine motor and gross motor skills programmes
Catch up phonics
Play therapy
Transition groups
Social communication
ThinkSmart
WELLCOMM
ELSA
Precision teaching
As well as interventions for those children struggling with reading, writing and maths
Impact:
We believe that, for children, understanding the next steps in their learning is very important.
We believe staff training is very important in supporting our staff with managing the diverse needs of today’s children.
We believe that whatever the child’s needs, it is important to help them reach their full potential.
We want every child to reach their full potential regardless of their starting point.