The school’s Inclusion Leader is Mrs Rosanne Bernstein. She can be contacted via the school office.
SEND Policy
Please click here for the school’s SEND Policy.
SEND Information Report
Please click here for the school’s SEND Information Report.
General information
Our school aims to help all pupils meet their abilities and we do everything we can to ensure that there are no gaps in being able to achieve this. To this end, we make best use of our own staff as well as working with various external agencies so that every child is able to thrive and succeed.
Within the school
Within the school, we maximise use of all our staff, to engage with pupils 1-2-1 or in small groups, with the aim of doing our best to help our boys learn and develop to their best of their own abilities. This may include supporting the ‘First 20%’, children on Pupil Premium, or those with other barriers to learning. We provide:
-Permanent in-house interventions specialist;
-Teacher-led intervention groups across key stages;
-Teaching Assistant reading support rotas;
-Senior leadership Year 6 intervention groups;
-Grandparent readers.
All of this takes place alongside the adapted teaching and learning that take place in classrooms, where we also look for opportunities to ‘loosen the scaffold’, with pupils taking responsibility for their own learning.
Sensory Room
In addition, the school has a ‘Sensory Room‘, designed to support a pupil’s sensory preferences and needs. It is a special room which aims to provide pupils with the special sensory input, in order for them to self-regulate. This will then help them be better prepared for learning and interacting with others.
External support
Externally, for a number of years, the school has worked in partnership with Legadel’s early interventions therapists, as well as working with a variety of other other therapists and agencies. All of these are beneficial to individual pupils with a variety of needs.
After all, we absolutely want to do our best to meet the needs of all pupils in the school and will always look for any which way we can to do this.
The Local Offer and Special Educational Needs
The Children and Families Act received Royal Assent on 13 March 2014. It contained a range of measures focusing on vulnerable children and their families. Part 3 of the Act refers to reform in the law for the education of children and young adults up to the age of 25 with Special Educational Needs. The provisions of the Act applied from 1 September 2014 with the incremental introduction of Education, Health and Care Plans.
The Act introduced:
- expectations that the views of the child and young person will influence decisions made for their education
- a new SEND Code of Practice
- a requirement for schools and the Local Authority to publish their Local Offers
- a refining of the system of statutory assessment (that often leads to a statement) into an integrated assessment of education, health and care needs for children with significant SEND
- the determination of special educational provision through an Education, Health and Care Plan, as well as any health and care needs the child or young adult may have
- the potential for young adults to be supported with an Education, Health and Care Plan until the age of 25, and the removal of the current Learning Difficulty Assessment arrangements for those school leavers with the most significant needs.
- the potential for Local Authorities and Health Services to offer services to parents and young adults through a personal budget
Please click here to go to Barnet’s website re. The Local Offer