SEND Accessibility

Teachers are responsible and accountable for the progress and development of all the pupils in their classes. High-quality teaching (Quality First Teaching) is our first step in responding to students who have SEN. This will be differentiated for individual students. We make the following adaptations to ensure all students’ needs are met:

• Differentiating our curriculum to ensure all pupils can access it, for example, by grouping, 1:1 work, teaching style, content of the lesson.
• Adapting our resources and staffing.
• Using recommended aids such as laptops, coloured overlays, visual timetables, larger font.
• Differentiating our teaching, for example, giving longer processing times, pre-teaching of key vocabulary, reading instructions aloud.

All students at KS3 participate in a wide and varied curriculum to ensure that they are able to use their skills of literacy and numeracy in a wide variety of subjects. Quality first teaching ensures that students are able to access this curriculum.

Our SEN Policy promotes the involvement of all our learners in all aspects of the curriculum, including activities outside the classroom. All students have the opportunity to participate in educational visits. We will also provide the following interventions:

• Drawing and Talking
• Social Skills/ Nurture Group
• Lego Therapy
• ELSA
• Literacy intervention
• Numeracy intervention
• Mindfulness.