Special Educational Needs
The Learning Support Department works passionately to ensure that every student in the school receives the best possible education and we are immensely proud of the school's inclusive nature. We recognise the strengths as well as challenges each student faces and tailor support to individual needs.
The Department is highly experienced and qualified and consists of a Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCo) plus sixteen Learning Support Assistants. In addition to classroom support and academic progress, we value the importance of developing social skills, communication, confidence, independence and high aspirations.
The work of the Department starts with primary school liaison and close contacts are maintained with all feeder schools ensuring that we are fully informed of student's needs and can prepare for their transition. Parental contact is paramount and starts with transition and continues throughout a student's time with us.
Learning Support is fully inclusive, and we deliver interventions as appropriate, with the minimum impact on the rest of a student's curriculum. Interventions include, amongst others, small group or individual literacy and numeracy support, targeted sports activities, communication groups, mentoring, horse-riding, break and lunch time support and alternative curriculum choices.
Please find below some links to policies and advice that I hope is useful but please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Sen Policy + Information Report
Read Write Video - Read Write Inc is our reading intervention for those students struggling to decode written text.
Guidance for parents - British Dyslexia Association (bdadyslexia.org.uk)
Shropshire Emotional Well-being Support BEAM
Shropshire Emotional Well-being Support KOOTH
Autism West Midlands, guide to choosing a school
The SEND local offer | Shropshire Council has lots of information, support and resources for parents/carers of children with SEND