Following an initial meeting with the class teacher, and where it has been established that your child requires additional support or provision, you can expect Oatlands Junior School to put this in place to ensure that your child has the best chance of success.
At Oatlands Junior School, we will:
- Discuss your child's needs with you. This will usually involve a discussion with the class teacher, although it may also be appropriate for the Inclusion Leader, Learning & Teaching Assistants or other staff to be present at these discussions.
- Identify your child’s need and put in place extra support and / or provision. This may be in the form of:
- small group work around a specific learning need so your child can make rapid progress
- specialist programme of support or intervention around a learning or an emotional need
- a parallel curriculum developed with specialist support
- support from outside of school, e.g. Speech and Language Therapy (SALT), HKRC SEND HUB, Early Help Team, Educational Psychologist (EP), The Healthy Child Team,
- a 'My Support Plan’ with that identifies:
- the specific need(s) / barrier to learning faced by your child,
- assessments and evaluated impact of support and interventions,
- child and parent voice,
- information provided by external agencies,
- termly targets,
- a plan for additional and different support or provision,
Staff at Oatlands Junior School will keep you informed about the progress your child is making. This could be through:
- parent consultation meetings
- specially additional arranged meetings with the class teacher
- copies of 'My Support Plan’
- Annual Review meetings for children with an EHCP
- Early Help Plan meetings
- annual reports
At Oatlands Junior School, we ensure that our staff are trained in general SEND issues. For example:
- how to identify children with SEND
- understanding our legal duties
- sharing good practice
- keeping up with relevant educational research
- having an overview of typical SEND needs and the strategies to support the needs
- liaise with external agencies to provide specific support / advice / training when necessary
Staff will monitor the impact of additional support for children with SEND. We keep a register of children who are receiving additional and different support and / or provision. This is known as the SEND Register. This register is continually reviewed. When the targets have been achieved and additional support is no longer required, a child may be removed from the register.
Some children will be on the SEND Register only for short periods of time. Children with more complex needs, may be on the register and receiving additional and different support for much of their time at Oatlands Junior School.
We constantly monitor and review the type of additional and different support / provision provided in our school to ensure that it is having the required and expected impact. Staff in school are adept in identifying when support / provision is ineffective and will adapt and change this as necessary.
On occasion, it is necessary for the school to access further advice, information and recommendations from external agencies. We work closely with many external agencies who provide us with additional guidance and support us so that we can best meet the needs of all the pupils in our school.
These agencies include:
- Doctors & paediatricians
- Early Help Support
- Social Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech & Language Therapy
- Young Carers
- Compass Phoenix Health & Wellbeing Service
- IDAS Domestic Abuse Support
- CAMHS
- NYCC SEND Hubs Specialist Teachers