How do we help our pupils to access learning at our school?
To ensure accessibility and inclusion for all our pupils the following resources/support could be used:
- Wide doorways to allow wheelchair access throughout school
- Wheelchair access ramps to the Victorian Building
- Accessible toilets in both school buildings
- Adapted children’s toilet cubicle to allow personal care to be given discreetly
- Special dietary requirements catered for by the school catering service
- Playground buddy system to encourage social inclusion
- Individual risk assessments to ensure pupil safety
- After school clubs available to all pupils and pupils are prioritised to support additional needs
- Pastoral lunchtime support club to promote inclusion and social support on the playground
- Use of TAs to support
Additional Services and Agencies we use to support children and teaching and learning:
- Educational Psychologist - Local Authority bought in service
- Learning Support Advisory Teacher - Local Authority bought in service
- Speech and Language Therapy - referral through to the NHS service
- Occupational Therapy - referral through to the NHS service
- Sensory Inclusion Service - referral through to the NHS service
- BeeU / CAMHS - referral through the Local Authority Emotional Health and Wellbeing Panel
- Inclusion support funding - referral through to the Local Authority panel
- Local Authority SEND department
- SENCO network support group - within the Local Authority
- Specialist Leader in SEND - bought in service through the Severn Teaching Alliance using local experts
- BEAM - universal service offered to parents to support with emotional health and parenting needs
- Family Connect - universal hub as a point of access for a local directory of services
To access the local area Telford and Wrekin SEND offer page see the link below:
- https://www.telfordsend.org.uk/site/index.php