Welcome to St Mary’s Primary School’s Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) information page. We hope the information provided here will help you to understand the variety of ways in which we are able to support your child to succeed in their education and make a successful transition to their next phase of education.
Our Vision:
Every child flourishing
John 10:10 ‘I have come in order that you might have life – life in all its fulness.’
As we flourish, others do too.
Our Christian Values that drive this, our work, are:
- Love
- Compassion
- Forgiveness
St. Mary’s is a joyful place to be, where difference is celebrated, and everyone is safe and accepted. We genuinely care about the individual interest of each other, inspiring all to be life-long learners and igniting a passion to follow their dreams. We are proud to be at the heart of our community and celebrate life in all it fullness.
We are an inclusive school that celebrates diversity and believes that all children should be valued and treated with respect. We have a strong focus on high aspirations and improving outcomes for all our pupils. As a school we use our best endeavours to ensure that the provision for all our pupils is of the highest possible standard, whilst acknowledging that we are continually striving to improve our practice.
Our SENCO is Mr Davy, she can be contacted on 01226 206422.
SEND Aims of the School
- To ensure that all children have access to broad and balanced learning opportunities.
- To provide differentiation appropriate to the individual’s needs and ability.
- To ensure the early identification of all children requiring SEND provision.
- To ensure that children with special educational needs take as full a part as possible in all activities.
- To develop maintain positive relationships and work alongside parents and carers of learners with SEND, ensuring they are kept fully informed and involved in their child’s learning, progress and attainment.
- To ensure that SEND children are involved, where practicable, in decisions affecting their future SEN provision and learning.
- To ensure that all children are able to achieve their full potential.
- To provide a fully inclusive learning experience across all curriculum areas.
What is “Special Educational Needs”?
‘A child or young person has SEN if they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made for them. A child of compulsory school age or a young person has a learning difficulty or disability if they:
(a) have a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age;
or
(b) have a disability which prevents or hinders them from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided for others of the same age in mainstream schools or mainstream post -16 institutions.
A child under compulsory school age has special educational needs if they fall within the definition at (a) or (b) above or would do so if special educational provision was not made for them (Clause 20 Children and Families Act)’ (Draft SEN Code of Practice 2013, 1.8)
What is a Disability?
The Equality Act 2010 states that a person has a disability if they have a physical or mental impairment and the impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. A physical or mental impairment includes: learning difficulties including specific learning difficulties; medical conditions including epilepsy, diabetes, more severe forms of asthma and eczema; autism; speech, language and communication impairments.
If the impairment has a substantial and long-term effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to day activities it may amount to a disability.