The following additional facilities and resources are available for pupils with SEND:

• Resources/advice recommended by the various departments within the Specialist Teaching Service
• Learning Support Assistant  time to benefit those pupils who need extra support directed by the relevant teacher e.g. LSAs to support  in class,  SALT/Social and Communication Groups/Motor Skills/Reading intervention groups
• SENDCo time to work with identified pupils
• Differentiated and scaffolded work with provision continually monitored
• Behaviour Support
• Intervention Groups to cater for needs of pupils within the cohort
• Speech, Language and Communication Needs support within school and support from designated Speech and Language Therapists

• Makaton signs and symbols are incorporated into school life to promote and support communication

• Support groups e.g. Luncheon Clubs, ELSA support

• Mud Buster Programme       

• Significant partnerships with other schools include our links with Menphys Nursery and close working partnership with Dorothy Goodman Special School, Oakfield Short Stay School.

   

  We also provide:

• special diets (kitchen on site)

• an enclosed play area attached to Class 7 (MLD unit) available for all pupils to develop gross motor skills in a safe and secure environment

• further outdoor areas around school to enable lessons to take place in an outdoor environment

• a Play Pod to encourage creative and imaginative play, a Friendship Train and Trim Trail with large climbing and balancing equipment       

• resources recommended by Visually and Hearing Impaired Specialists

• wheelchair access within the main school building and the modular building and there is wheelchair access to all areas used by relevant pupils

• toilets for disabled pupils are installed and the design of the building is suitable for pupils with physical disabilities. There is a shower and changing area.    

• lowered ceilings and carpeted floored to improve acoustics for hearing impaired pupils. There is a sound field system in MLD Unit. Learning Support Assistants in the MLD Unit are experienced with microphones and have had hearing impaired training.

• disabled parking bay

• adapted resources for pupils with visual impairment

   

  For further information see Section 3d and Section 6 of the full version of the SEND Information Report