To be fully inclusive, the vast majority of students with SEND will have their needs met through high quality teaching from subject specialists within mainstream classrooms. All teachers are trained to adapt and scaffold the curriculum to support students with additional needs. Teachers prioritise building relationships with students to ensure they feel secure and a PACE approach guides all interactions. Teachers are supported with planning for students with additional needs through information contained in a student passport which is co-produced by the SEND team, the student and their parents.
However there are times, when some students are extracted from lessons to attend specific interventions that are identified through the assess, plan, do, review process. We have interventions to support all four areas of need: Communication and Interaction, Cognition and Learning, Sensory and Physical and Social, Emotional, Mental Health. We can also support students at unstructured times and the SEND base offers a warm, welcoming atmosphere allowing students to interact, developing their social and communication skills. A homework club also runs three days a week afterschool.
Disability Equality Scheme
Notre Dame School is an Inclusive school where “every person belongs” and we “give equality of opportunity to all our students”.
Schools are required to implement a Disability Equality Scheme, drawing on existing good practice and the Disability Access Plan, to ensure consistency of accessibility across all aspects of school life for disabled students, staff and stakeholders. As with other school policies relating to the duty of Equality, the aim is to ensure that disabled people are not treated less favourably or otherwise disadvantaged.
Our Disability Equality Scheme and Action Plan are available from the Policies page.
SENDCO
Mrs C Sampson