Learning Support

The SEND Team

The SEND Team, via The Learning Support Hub, aims to provide support and guidance to students who have greater difficulties in learning than the majority of their peers.

Our philosophy is very much about facilitating that all students have access to all areas of the curriculum.

Our Provisions

The SEND Team provides Universal, Targeted and Specialist provision (interventions)for students, across the four broad areas of need outlined in the SEND Code of Practice (2015):

Communication and Interaction (C & I) - Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN)
Cognition and Learning (C & L) - Moderate Learning Difficulties (MLD) and Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) like Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia and Dyspraxia,
Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Anxiety and Depression
Sensory and/or Physical Needs (S/PD) - Visual Impairments (VI), Hearing Impairments (HI), Sensory Processing Disorders (SPD), Epilepsy

High quality teaching is our first step in responding to students who have SEND.
This is known as universal provision and involves differentiation and / or scaffolding of learning for individual students.

We also provide several targeted and specialist provisions for identified students, to ensure that they are able to access the curriculum.
All Key Stage 3 students (years 7-9) complete standardised assessments in literacy and numeracy in the first term each year.
This enables us to have an early identification of needs and ensures that appropriate provision and intervention is in place.
The SEND team focus their targeted and specialist provision on students who score below 85 on the standardised assessment, regardless of whether they have an identified SEND need.

Intervention Details

Length: Interventions, generally, run for approximately half a term (6-8 weeks)
Frequency: Your child will participate in 1-3 sessions per week, dependent on the type of intervention.
Location. Interventions are, generally, held within the Learning Support Hub.
Students will be informed of when and where their intervention is and will be given an intervention reminder card.
Times: Interventions run throughout the day.
This includes some short interventions during registration to longer, more focussed interventions which occur during lessons
Flexibility: A number of the interventions can be accessed at home too. If this is the case, parents will be informed.