Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
 
We believe in a fully inclusive approach for pupils with additional needs. This includes working closely with parents and carers to support your child to achieve their full potential. It is important to us that parents and carers are fully involved in all stages that your child may need support. This will be initially through informal discussions at parent's evening through to reviews of Individual interventions, and possible discussions with other professionals from external agencies.
 
If you are at all concerned about your child please speak to your child's class teacher in the first instance and then Mrs Miller our SENCO and Headteacher. 
 
 

SCHOOL NAME:

Branton Community Primary School and Breamish Valley Community Nursery
Branton
Alnwick
NE66 4JF
01665 578225

Admin@branton.northumberland.sch.uk

 

TYPE OF SCHOOL:

Mainstream

Primary School

Mainstream and Community Powers

Nursery

 

ACCESSIBILITY:

Wheelchair access

Whole site is wheelchair accessible

Adult support

High ratio of staff to pupils

Other facilities

Disabled toilet and changing facilities.

 

CORE OFFER:

Are you currently able to deliver your core offer consistently over all areas of your school?

Yes

A small, family orientated school with a high adult to child ratio, in a quiet and peaceful setting.

The school is at the heart of the local rural community, with regular events and school involvement in the local area.
Provision from 2 to 11 years of age (Nursery to Year 6).

The Read Write Inc synthetic phonics scheme is used from when children begin to develop their phonic knowledge, so from Reception for as long as the children are working within the range.  It may also be used with nursery children if it is felt appropriate. 1-1 sessions are also available as needed.

Literacy and Language is used for those children working beyond the RWI range.

A variety of maths schemes are used with White Rose Maths as our main planning tool.  We use these to tailor our curriculum to the needs of our children. We use Numicon from the Early Years and have an intervention scheme '1stClass@number' for children needing additional support. 

School curriculum designed by the local community as a ‘Community Designed School’ initiative, input from children, parents, governors and staff and is reviewed regularly. 

School site is fully accessible for wheelchairs.

POLICIES:

Are the school policies available on the website for:

SEN

Yes

SAFEGUARDING

Yes

BEHAVIOUR

Yes

EQUALITY & DIVERSITY

Yes

Are you aware/familiar with the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the Equality Act 2010?

Yes

RANGE OF PROVISION:

Please indicate what your school has to offer (over and above your core offer) in each of the following areas:

Areas of strength
High adult to child ratio, outdoor learning, quiet and peaceful setting.

Family atmosphere where pupils and parents are well known. 

Strong community support.

Bespoke curriculum to meet the needs of all learners. 

Flexible family or mixed age grouping which enables us to teach children from their starting points.

Specialist Facilities/Equipment to support SEND

Accessible site, large outdoor area, experienced staff and high adult to child ratio.

Input from Therapists/Advisory Teachers/other specialist support services

We have access to our Local Authority SEND Support Services who provide speech and language, educational psychologists, autism specialists, behaviour specialist and specific learning specialists.. 

Access to and support and advice from school health.

Access to support services provided on a paid for basis if thought to be appropriate, this may include support and advice from services such as Educational Psychologists. 

Any support from services outside of school will be with the consent of the Parents/Carers. 

 

Breakfast and After School support

We can offer after school care in our 'Branton Buddies'. This provision is accessible to all children within school.

INLCUSION:

How do you promote inclusion within the school? Including day and residential trips?

All children are encouraged to participate and the high adult to child ratio enable support as appropriate, so the curriculum is planned around all our children and their individual needs.

Lessons are differentiated by ability and by age. Group work is encouraged to enable pupils to support each other and to work collaboratively.

All pupils are included in educational visits as appropriate to their age and relevance to the school curriculum.

Areas within the school are open and accessed by all.  A central shared area can be used by any age group.

What proportion of children currently at the school have a SEND?  33% as of March 2024

PARENT SUPPORT

INVOLVEMENT/LIAISON:

How do you involve/support the parents of children/YP with SEND regarding and meeting their needs. How do you communicate their progress and areas of difficulty?

Due to the ratio of adults to children, contact can be daily, and staff communicate regularly with parents.  If appropriate, appointments can be made to speak to the teaching staff around teaching commitments. The school operates an ‘open door’ policy, so parents are very welcome in school.

Parents are invited to take part in regular meetings about their children, their needs and their progress, and able to make more formal appointments as necessary. 

All pupils are linked to dojo which teachers and parents can access and share concerns.

Our children in EYFS have an School360 EYFS learning journal that is linked to their Northumberland School Ready Passport.

How will the school prepare children with SEND to join their next setting/college/stage of education or life?

  • strong community links with neighbouring schools,
  • regular visits and participation in activities and sports events
  • transfer meetings with next settings
  • Alnwick Partnership meetings

OTHER INFORMATION:

What else do you think parents carers would like to know about your school?

There are strong links to farming and agriculture, with regular participation in local shows and rural events.

Experienced school team.

The school has a large field, wildlife area and access to Branton Ponds with a wide variety of wildlife, flora and fauna.  

Good use of the outdoor learning environment.

COMPLETED BY:

(Name and position)

 

Emma Miller
Headteacher and SENDCo

Branton Community Primary School and Breamish Valley Nursery
Branton, Alnwick, NE66 4JF

SEND Governor

Rev Tracey Malthouse

DATE UPDATED:

13th March 2024

NEXT REVIEW DUE:

12th March 2025
Different categories of SEND
 
Communication and Interaction
Speech, Language and Communication needs (SLCN) - a learner may have difficulty in communicating with others, either by not being understood or not understanding or using the social rules of communication. 
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) - including Asperger's syndrome and Autism - children may have particular difficulties with social interaction.  They may also experience difficulties with language, communication and imagination, which can impact on how they relate to others. 
 
Cognition and Learning
Support for these learning difficulties may be required when learners learn at a slower pace than their peers, even with appropriate differentiation.
MLD - moderate learning difficulties
SLD - severe learning difficulties
PMLD - profound and multiple learning difficulties
SpLD - specific learning difficulties - affecting one or maore aspects of learning - this includes dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia. 
 
Social, emotional and health difficulties 
Learners may exprience a wide range of social and emotional difficulties.
 
Sensory or Physical needs
Some Learners require special educational provision because they have a disbility which prevents or hinders them form making use of the educational facilities generally provided. 
VI - vision imparement
HI - hearing imparement
MSI - multi sensory imparement
PD - physical disablity. 
 

Complaints

If you are unhappy in any way please contact the head teacher in the first instance. After that there is a statutory complaints procedure, the details of which are available on our policies page and from the school.