The Class teacher;
Responsible for:

  • Teaching and supporting the best possible progress of your child, including identifying, planning and delivering any additional help your child may need (this could be things like targeted work, additional support)
  • Liaising with the School’s Special Education Needs/Disabilities Coordinators (SENDCo/Inclusion Managers)
  • Meeting with you at least once a term to discuss progress made, agree next steps and share your child’s individualised learning plan. This review enables targets to be planned for the next term to facilitate personalised teaching and learning for your child.
  • Ensuring that the school’s SEND Policy is followed in their classroom and for all the pupils they teach with any SEND. The SENDCo / Inclusion Manager
    to identify any needs as soon as possible to ensure provision supports early development, Responsible for:
  • Developing and reviewing the school’s SEND policy
  • Coordinating all the support for children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND)Ensuring that you are ;
    i) involved in supporting your child’s learning
    ii) kept informed about the support your child is getting iii) involved in reviewing how they are doing.
  • Liaising with all the other people who may be coming into to school to help support your child’s learning e.g. Speech and Language Therapy, Educational Psychology etc.
  • Updating the school’s SEND register (a system for ensuring that all the SEND needs of pupils in this school are known) and making sure that records of your child’s progress and needs are kept.
  • Providing specialist support for teachers and support staff in the school so that they can help children with SEND in the school to achieve the best progress possible.

The Headteacher –  Responsible for:

  • The day to day management of all aspects of the school, this includes the support for children with SEND.
  • The Headteacher will delegate responsibility to the SENDCo/Inclusion Manager and class teachers, but is still responsible for ensuring that your child’s needs are met.
  • The Headteacher must make sure that the Governing Body is kept up to date about issues relating to SEND.

The school contact telephone number is 0191 525 1203