SEN
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
The local authority has published its 'Local Offer' outlining what the authority offers to support children with special educational needs or disabilities - SEND
You can find this by clicking on the following link:
www.kent.gov.uk/education-and-children
Our school policy includes;
- The kinds of SEN provided for
- Pathway for identifying pupils with SEN and assessing their needs
- Arrangements for consulting parents and pupils and involving them in their education
- Arrangements for assessing and reviewing progress towards outcomes
- The approach to teaching pupils with SEN
- How adaptations are made to the curriculum
- The expertise and training of staff to support pupils with SEN +D, including how specialist expertise will be secured
- Evaluating the effectiveness of provision
- How pupils with SEN are enabled to engage in activities available to pupils who do not have SEN
- Support for improving social and emotional development
- How the school involves other bodies
- Arrangements for handling complaints
Please click the link below to see our SEN Policy:
Link between Infant and Junior Schools
Our SENCOs, Aby Hyson (Willesborough Infant School) and Chris Luckhurst (Willesborough Junior School) work together to ensure cohesive and progressive provision across the two school sites, from Reception to year six.
If you would like to contact our SEND leader here at the infant school, please call on 01233 624165 or email at: senco@willesborough-infant.kent.sch.uk.
If you would like to raise a complaint to the Executive Headteacher, please follow our complaints policy that can be found here - Complaints Policy
SEN support in school
Children with an Education Health Care Plan and those children in receipt of High Needs funding will have a Personal Provision Plan (PPP), which specifies end of key stage outcomes.
SEN support children will also have SEN outcomes and SMART targets that directly link to the end of key stage outcomes. The continued support and interventions the particular pupil receives will be present on a class provision map and will be reviewed with the parents at least three times a year.
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Pupils with medical needs
If a pupil has a medical need they will have a specific Health Care Plan which is completed in consultation with parent/carers.
The plan is discussed with all staff who are involved with the pupil. All relevant staff receive regular Auto-injector asthma, epilepsy and diabetic training delivered by the school/nursing team. When necessary, and in agreement with parents/carers, medicines are administrated in school if a pupil has a specific or long term identified medical need, but only with signed parental consent and with medicines in the original packages.
Enrichment activities
There are equal opportunities for all pupils to participate in activities, events and educational visits. Risk assessments are carried out and procedures are put into place to enable all children to fully participate.
send support group handout.pdf
SEND Pathway for Parents and Carers
Please click the link below to view the parent version of mainstream core standards for SEN: