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Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
SEND Management Staff
Mrs Z Balding, Inclusion Lead
Miss Charlotte Bathurst, SEN Lead KS1 and EYFS
Mr Matt Willis, SEN Lead KS2 and whole school inclusion lead
If you wish to contact the SEND department email senco@skps.org.uk or call 01892 553060.
Skinners’ Kent Primary School is dedicated to being an inclusive school with the aim of ensuring that all children achieve their potential. Some children have special educational needs and the school is committed in providing appropriate support for all children to ensure that they make good progress.
Skinners’ Kent Primary School is committed to:
- Catering for every pupil’s learning needs
- Providing a fully inclusive and nurturing community of which every pupil is an important part
- Following the six principles of nurture
- Celebrating diversity and differences
- Building our pupils’ self-esteem and recognising their achievements at every level
- Working closely together with parents of pupils with SEN/D
- Identifying SEN/D early and putting appropriate support in place
- Training our staff so that they can help children learn in the way that suits them best.
Definition of SEN/D
A child has SEN if they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made for him or her.
A child of compulsory school age has a learning difficulty if he or she:
(a) Has a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age; or
(b) Has a disability which prevents or hinders him or her from making use of facilities of a kind generally provided for others of the same age in mainstream schools or mainstream post-16 institutions, (SEN Code of Practice 2014, with amendments 2015).
There are four broad areas giving an overview of the range of needs that we plan for. The broad areas of need fall under:
- Communication and Interaction
- Cognition and Learning
- Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties
- Sensory and/or Physical Needs
What do I do if I think my child may have special educational needs?
If you think your child might have SEND, first raise your concern with your child’s teacher. You can contact your child’s teacher by phoning the school office or messaging the class teacher directly via ClassDojo.
All our class teachers are responsible for the monitoring of all pupils. They regularly review those who are not making the expected level of progress in their schoolwork, socially or emotionally. If a teacher notices that a pupil is having difficulty, they will try and find out if the pupil has any gaps in their learning. If they can find a gap, the school will provide appropriate support. Pupils who don’t have SEND usually make progress quickly once the gap in their learning has been filled.
If the pupil is still finding it difficult to make the expected progress, the teacher will talk to the SEND team and will contact you to discuss the possibility that your child has SEND, and we will follow the graduated approach. The pupil will then be placed on the monitoring register and we begin to follow the graduated response approach of ‘Assess, Plan, Do and Review’.
After a period of 6 weeks we will decide if a pupil needs to be placed on the SEND register and invite parents in for a meeting, where we will share the targets your child is working on and the support they are receiving.
Support for pupils
Skinners’ Kent Primary School offers a range of support for pupils based on their individual learning needs. The support is outlined in the whole school provision map and more detailed information can be found in the SEND report. Both of these documents can be found below.
