SEND Provision

The LA Local Offer

• The Children and Families Bill was enacted in 2014. From this date, Local Authorities and schools are required to publish and keep under review information about services they expect to be available for the children and young people with Special Educational Needs (SEN) aged 0-25. This is the ‘Local Offer’.
• The intention of the Local Offer is to improve choice and transparency for families. It will also be an important resource for parents in understanding the range of services and provision in the local area.

The School SEN Information Report

This utilises the LA Local Offer to meet the needs of SEN pupils as determined by school policy, and the provision that the school is able to meet. For the Academies full SEND Policy please see the bottom of this page.

Camblesforth Send Information Report 25/26

Because all children learn in different ways, we have tailored our classroom environments so that they can meet a range of needs. All of our classrooms provide:

• Visual supports
• A distraction free learning zone
• Sensory Processing strategies (movement breaks, noise reducing headphones, move and sit cushions, fiddle toys etc)
• Access to multi-sensory and hands-on learning
• Use of IT and alternative methods of recording where needed
• Use of de-escalation strategies
• A Restorative Practice Approach with daily check-ins and Affective Questions
• A preventative rather than reactive approach
• Positive praise – and lots of it!

We are also using communication friendly approaches, developed by the Leeds Communication Trust to reduce barriers to communication for all.

• Every teacher here at Camblesforth Community Primary Academy is working towards the achievement of every child through excellent quality first teaching. We call this our Universal offer. If any child is struggling in class for any reason, strategies and or intervention will be put in place at a Targeted level to support with this after discussions with parents/carers. Advice would be sought from the SENDCo and SEMH team and progress would be tracked to see if these strategies were proving to be successful.
• If a child is still struggling in school and needs additional support, it may be that they need more Specialist level intervention and resources putting in place. Again, parents would be very much involved in this discussion and would work with the school to plan this. At this stage, your child would be receiving ‘SEN Support’ and our SENDCo would be closely involved to support staff, your child and the family. The majority of children at this level with have some Assistant Teacher Support. Each child’s support package will look different depending on their level of need. As we are keen to promote independence and develop young people’s life skills for the future, where a child has AT support, we discourage the concept of 1:1 ‘velcroed’ support. Through careful planning, we will ensure that each child’s needs are met through a balanced approach of 1:1, group work and monitored independent time.

The new SEN Code of Practice (2014) defines children as having special educational needs (SEN):

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 him or her.

A child of compulsory school age or a young person has a learning difficulty or disability if he or she:

• has a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age, or 16
• 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 .

Our SENDCo and pupil support team oversee the provisions and interventions we have in place for all our pupils at Camblesforth Community Primary Academy. Along with the senior leadership team, they monitor the effectiveness of provision through observations and data analysis and provision will be adjusted as required to ensure pupils are fulfilling their full potential. Children will always be supported to engage in activities available to pupils who do not have SEN.

Because we understand that Early Identification is key, our SENDCo works closely with staff to help identify children with any additional needs and advise on intervention as this early stage.

We work closely with individuals and other agencies to help us identify the right support for each child, including:

• • Speech and language,
  • CAMHS
  • SEND Hub
  • Early Help

All pupils with SEN at Camblesforth Community Primary Academy have a document in place that is jointly written by parents, the child and professionals. Depending on the level of need, this may be called a ‘Condensed My Support Plan’, a ‘Full My Support Plan’ or an ‘Education Health Care Plan.’ An EHCP is a statutory document that is written alongside the SEN Panel at the Local Authority.

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