Special Educational Needs

At Skol Nansledan all children are valued, respected and welcomed to our school whatever their additional educational need. We will support their learning and ensure they are fully included in all school activities, making full use of externally provided facilities where appropriate.

Nansledan is a mainstream school in which all children are valued, respected and welcomed regardless of their additional educational need. We will support their learning and ensure they are fully included in all school activities, making full use of externally provided facilities where appropriate.

Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is defined in the SEND Code of Practice (2015) as: a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made.

A pupil is considered to have a learning difficulty or disability if they:

Have a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age

Have a disability that prevents or hinders them from making use of educational facilities generally provided for others of the same age in mainstream school

Special educational provision is provision that is different from or additional to support normally available to pupils of the same age, in order to help children with SEND access the curriculum.

There are 4 broad areas of SEND identified within the Code of Practice. Individual children or young people may have needs in one area or across several areas and their needs may change over time.

Communication and interaction

Children and young people with speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN) who have difficulty understanding and communicating with others. This may include those with Autism.

Cognition and learning

Children and young people who learn at a slower pace than their peers, and those with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) e.g. dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dyspraxia.

Social, emotional and mental health

Children who may be withdrawn or isolated, as well as those displaying challenging, disruptive or disturbing behaviours.

Sensory and/or physical

This includes children with a disability that prevents or hinders them from making full use of general educational facilities. For example, those with visual or hearing impairments, multi-sensory impairments, and/or physical disabilities.

Children with additional needs areidentified through a combination of observations of the children as individuals within their classes by our experienced staff, tracking the outcomes of assessments and through discussions with parents. Our Special Educational Needs and Disability Co-ordinator (SENDCo) is Miss Blake. She works with the class teachers and teaching assistants to create programmes of support that meet the needs of the child. If you wish to discuss your child's learning programme, please contact your child's class teacher in the first instance and then should you require further information please contact our SENDCo through the school office.

At Skol Nansledan, we work with a range of external agencies to provide the best support for all of our children. There are too many to list, but they include: