Policy for Pupils with Special Educational Needs (SEN)

Rationale

Provision must be made for all children to reach their full potential and some may need specially designed programmes of work to suit their individual learning requirements, within the structure of the Code of Practice.

Purposes

• To ensure that the school identifies children with special needs.
• To ensure that parents are informed and involved in any special arrangements made for their child.
• To ensure that a child identified with SEN must firstly feel a part of their peer group but may also need some withdrawal time for additional / differentiated work.
• To ensure that the child's progress is monitored, recorded and reviewed.
• To ensure a named SENCO is allocated within school.
• To ensure that, where appropriate, children, parents, staff and outside agencies should be consulted in planning, interventions for children who have special educational needs.
• To ensure that SEN should be addressed as a part of INSET.
• To ensure that governors should be regularly informed regarding how the school is meeting its responsibilities of providing for pupils with SEN.
• To ensure that children with SEN should, where appropriate, have full access to the national curriculum.
• To ensure that resources available for SEN are easily accessible.

Guidelines

• Provision should be made within the classroom in order that, where appropriate, all children have the opportunity to access the National Curriculum.
• The system by which the school identifies children with SEN will be indicated by the policy Referral/Monitoring/Assessment for SEN.
• Children with SEN are monitored on a regular basis and may have an individual education plan (I.E.P) which records targets and progress and is reviewed three times a year.
• Children with SEN may be selected to work with the SENCO either individually or within a small group. This could be in a separate area designated for that purpose and with appropriate resources and activities available.
• The SENCO’s role is defined in the job description and the Senco is named in the record of staff responsibilities.
• The SENCO should use INSET as an opportunity to discuss SEN within the school and to share new ideas and thinking.

Conclusion

• All children should have equal opportunity to achieve their full potential. Therefore, the school must ensure provision for children with any SEN, thus offering scope for the emergence and development of whatever talent the child has.

Reviewed annually, last review 2005