Learning support

Learning Support Managers

Key Stage 3 - Mrs D Garner, AMBDA (Dip DI teaching) Adv Cert in Autism
Key Stages 4/5 - Mr Paul Bargery

To identify at the earliest opportunity all children who need special consideration to support their physical, sensory, social, emotional, communication or cognitive development.
To ensure that these children are given appropriate support to allow every child full access to the National Curriculum in a positive framework
To ensure that these children are fully included in all activities of the College in order to promote the highest levels of achievement.
To involve parents, pupils and others in developing a partnership of support, enabling them full confidence in the strategy as adopted by the College.

To provide a broad, balanced and suitably differentiated curriculum relevant to pupil needs, through all staff sharing responsibility for SEN.
To demonstrate that meeting the needs of children's learning and/or behaviour is part of high quality mainstream education.
To plan for any pupil who may at some time in their education have special educational needs.
To promote self-worth and enthusiasm by encouraging independent learning at al age levels.
To give every child the entitlement to a sense of achievement.
To identify, monitor and support pupils who will need extra resources and/or teaching help as early as possible.
To work in partnership with the child's parents and other external agencies to provide for the child's special educational needs.
To regularly review the policy and practical arrangements to achieve best value.