Little Melton Primary School Local Offer- September 2017
Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND)
Little Melton Primary School is an inclusive school and may offer the following range of provision to support children with SEND
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Social Skills programmes/support including strategies to enhance self-esteem
- Playground buddies- use of supportive peers
- Social stories to discuss events
- Lunch time clubs, jobs and responsibilities offered to alleviate unstructured time
- 1:1 support
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Access to a supportive environment – IT facilities/equipment/resources (inc. preparation)
- Prompt and reminder cards for organisational purposes
- Pre teaching of strategies and vocabulary
- Access to lap tops and Ipads
- Clicker software
- Scribes
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Strategies/programmes to support speech and language
- Talk Boost
- 1:1 as necessary
- Speech therapy where appropriate using supplied resources & delivery of planned programmes by TA
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Mentoring activities
- Mentoring support from SENCO or TA
- Use of peer mentoring
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Access to strategies/programmes to support Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy needs:
- Intervention from an Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapy needs
- Delivery of planned programmes by TA
- Provision of equipment advised by specialist
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Strategies to reduce anxiety/promote emotional wellbeing (including communication with parents):
- Time For You
- Thrive
- Planned programme of support from SENCO/TA
- Regular parental contact sessions/home school link book
- Parent Support Adviser- potential link to Child and Adult Mental Health service and/or Family Support workers and multi-agency support
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Strategies to support/develop literacy inc. reading
- Phonics groups and 1:1 Wave 3 support
- Read Write Inc. resources and methodology
- Letters and Sounds resources and methodology
- Sounds Discovery
- Catch-up Literacy
- Additional Literacy Support (resources)
- Further Literacy Support (resources)
- Homework club
- Writing boosters
- Bug Club online
- Clicker
- Nessie – including dyslexia resource
- Big Write/VCOP games *
- Small group work
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Strategies to support modify behaviour:
- Use of school’s behaviour policy (see website)
- Time out
- Behaviour plans
- Home-school contact book
- Visual time table
- Specialist advice from Educational Psychologist
- Staff trained in Step-up approach
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Strategies to support/develop numeracy
- Numicon
- First Class @ Number
- Wave 3 resources
- Springboard resources
- Overcoming Barriers
- Catch Up Numeracy
- Big Math stratagies
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Provision to facilitate/support access to the curriculum:
- Small group or 1:1 support from TA
- Use of personalised equipment
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Strategies/support to develop independent learning:
- Use of visual timetables and checklists
- Pre-teaching of vocabulary and content
- Access to personal ICT
- Chunking of activities
- Use of individualised success criteria
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Support/supervision at unstructured times of the day including personal care
- Learning mentor or 1:1 support from TA
- Named TA/MSA at playtimes and lunchtimes
- Lunchtime clubs, jobs and responsibilities
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Planning and assessment
- Provision mapping
- Individual targets
- Regular review of targets with child and parents
- Termly SCPM
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Liaison/Communication with Professionals/Parents, attendance at meetings and preparation of reports
- Liason with a wide range of professionals eg Education Psychologist, Advisory Support Teacher, Speech and language support team
- Regular progress meetings with parents
- Home school contact book
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Access to Medical Interventions
- Strategies and policy for the use of personal medication
- Individual protocols for children with significant medical needs and allergies
- Access to school nurse
- Individual support plans
- First Aid trained staff
- Epilepsy Awareness Training
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For children with complex SEND, the frequency of such provision may result in the school applying for additional funding to support a child from the cluster.
