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Home / SEND / Our SEN Provision / How we identify, assess and review children with special educational needs

How we identify, assess and review children with special educational needs

Most children and young people in mainstream schools will have their special educational needs met through good classroom practice. This is called Quality First Teaching.

Early Identification of Need

In deciding whether to make special education provision to support educational, social, physical or emotional needs, we:

  • Work in partnership with parents/carers, pupils
  • Consult with relevant external agencies
  • Use assessment tools & materials
  • Use observations
  • Use Short Notes

SEN Support

Where a pupil is identified as having a special educational need we follow a graduated approach which takes the form of cycles of “Assess, Plan, Do, Review”.

This means that we will:

  • Assess a child’s special educational needs
  • Plan the provision to meet your child’s aspirations and agreed outcomes
  • Do put the provision in place to meet those outcomes
  • Review the support and progress

As part of this approach every child with SEN will have an individualised SEN Support Plan that describes the child’s needs, outcomes & provision to meet those needs.  Parents/carers and child/YP (where appropriate) views are integral to the this process.

A small percentage of children and young people with significant and/or complex needs may require an assessment that could lead to an Education, Health and Care Plan.

 

For more detailed information see the Local Offer

Details of Identification and Assessment of Pupils with SEN

  • Staff in the Early Years will primarily identify any concerns with children who are displaying significant learning needs. Reception, Key Stage 1 staff and the SENCO where necessary, liaise with Nursery or the child’s previous school (if applicable).
  • If a child is performing below age expected levels then meetings will be held with the class teacher and SENCO. Observations of the child may also take place.
  • Concerns may be raised by the class teacher. For example; if behaviour or self-esteem is affecting performance or the child’s overall mental health.
  • We may liaise with external agencies for either support or advice or they may come to us with an assessment/identification of need.
  • Health diagnosis through medical professionals
  • Parental concerns – SEND issues can be identified by parents / carers and raised with staff.

If your child has SEND, it is important for us to carry out formal assessments to identify their strengths and identify their needs accurately.

To do this, we will use a range of methods depending upon their needs.

When your child enters our school, their current attainment is assessed to give us a ‘baseline’ from where they will progress.

Depending upon their needs, other assessments may be needed. These could include:

  • Speech Therapy Assessments – which may focus on sound production, language understanding, or other relevant assessments to your child’s needs
  • Education Psychology Assessments – which may include memory, understanding, reasoning, logic, and general skills assessments

The outcomes of all assessments are shared with parents / carers at our Parent Evenings and during SEND review meetings. If other agencies are invited to work with your child, you will be invited to attend a meeting where the outcomes of these assessments and their next steps will be shared with you.

Children’s school achievements may be assessed against age related expectations for children who are working on the National Curriculum (i.e. the same as the majority of other children in their year group), or they may be assessed against other measures for children who are not ready to work on National Curriculum Levels (i.e. the steps before the National Curriculum). The school now uses the recommendations from the Rochford Report to assess children for whom it is inappropriate to use the National Curriculum.

For further information please view or download our Accessibility Plan which can be found in the School Policies section of our website.

SEN Information Report

  • Introduction
  • Our SEN Provision
    • The kinds of SEN that are provided for:
    • Our approach to teaching children & young people with SEN
    • How we adapt the curriculum and learning environment for children & young people with SEN
    • How we identify, assess and review children with special educational needs
    • How children with SEN engage in all activities?
    • How we evaluate the effectiveness of SEN Provision
  • Support for Emotional & Social Development
  • Looked After Children with SEND
  • SEN Transition
  • SEN Specialist Expertise
  • Consulting with our SEN Pupils, Parents & Carers
  • Compliments, Complaints & Feedback
  • Key Policies

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Chester Road

Stanley

County Durham

DH9 0TN

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