Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
The school aims to provide a full educational entitlement where every child receives quality opportunities and experiences in order to develop to their full potential within a secure and happy environment. This can best be summed up as:
‘Enriching lives, making a difference’
Our aims are to:
Identify at the earliest opportunity all children who need special consideration to support their physical, sensory, social, emotional, communication or cognitive development.
Follow Cambridge Road C P & N School’s Graduated Response.
Ensure that these children are integrated into all activities of the school in order to promote the highest levels of achievement.
Ensure that these children are given appropriate support to allow every child full access to the National Curriculum in a positive framework.
Involve parents in developing a partnership of support, enabling them to have full confidence in the strategy adopted by the school.
Raise the aspirations of and expectations for all children with SEND.
A child or young person has special educational needs (SEN) if they have a learning difficulty or disability (SEND) which calls for special educational provision to be made for them.
They have a learning difficulty or disability if they have:
A significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age, or
A disability which prevents or hinders them from making use of facilities of a kind generally provided for others of the same age in mainstream schools.
This may be covered within the 4 broad areas of need:
• Communication and interaction
• Cognition and learning
• Social, mental and emotional health
• Sensory/physical
Special educational provision means educational or training provision that is additional to, or different from, that made generally for other children or young people of the same age by mainstream schools.
All teachers are responsible for planning a curriculum that meets the needs of specific groups of children and responds to their diverse learning needs through adaptive teaching.
We review the support children receive and the progress they make regularly by assessing pupils needs, designing and adapting previous plans, delivering support and then reviewing this support. This creates a review process called the graduated approach.
If you are worried about your child in anyway, please speak with the class teacher to discuss your concern. We always have an 'open door' policy and appointments can be made with the class teacher if a more in-depth discussion is needed.
SEND Policy
Our SEND Policy contains information on how we aim to support children with special educational needs. It states the school's aims for SEN and includes information about the day-to-day processes of the school.
SEND Information Report
The SEND Information Report explains how the school's SEND Policy is used. It explains how help and support works for children with SEND. It details what happens and how The SEND Information Report explains how the school's SEND Policy is used. It explains how help and support works for children with SEND. It details what happens and how.
Other useful sources of information:
Cheshire West & Chester Local Authority Local Offer
This offer has links to the support available in this local area related to special educational needs.
At Koala North West, we offer essential support for families and children in the North West area so that every parent has the support they need in order to give their children the best start in life.
Cheshire Autism Practical Support (ChAPS)
ChAPS aims to support families with autism whether diagnosed or not, living in Cheshire.
The Cheshire West & Chester parents forum are a voluntary group of Parents and Carers who have children/young people with special educational needs and/or disability.