1. What is SEND? SEND Report Claydon High School aims to support all students “Be The Best They Can Be” Next Review June 2017 ‘Be the best you can be’ Quality Teaching Partnership Working Local Offer Interventions Our SENCo SEND Codes Useful Links Jargon Busting Pastoral Support

2. HOME ‘Be the best you can be’ A child has special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) if they have a learning difficulty or disability which means that they find it significantly harder to learn or to do activities which children of the same age are able to do. If your child has a special educational need or disability their needs may fall into one or more of the four main areas of SEND: 1. Communication and Interaction Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) Autism 2. Cognition and Learning Specific Learning Difficulty (SpLD) Moderate Learning Difficulty (MLD) Severe Learning Difficulty (SLD) Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty (PMLD) 3. Social, Emotional and Mental Health 4. Physical and Sensory Visual Impairment (VI) Hearing Impairment (HI) Multi-Sensory Impairment (MSI) Physical Disability (PD) What is SEND?

3. HOME ‘Be the best you can be’ What is SEND? (Cont) Students with these conditions may need extra support or special provision made for them to access the same facilities/opportunities as other children of the same age. We work closely with our Pyramid Primary Schools and Post 16 educational providers to ensure the successful transition of students with SEND. We rigorously track and monitor the progress of all students whilst at Claydon High School. Teachers in conjunction with the SENCo and, where appropriate external agencies, look at those pupils who are making significantly less than the progress we expect. We regularly monitor and review the SEND Register. We regularly undertake Accessibility Audits and use these to inform our Access Plan. Assessment & Reporting Policy

4. HOME ‘Be the best you can be’ Quality Teaching At Claydon High School we aim to have an wholly inclusive classroom environment. We strive to ensure that our teaching staff are well trained and they provide teaching of the highest standard for all Claydon High School students. Teachers are trained in how to differentiate class work so that it reaches all levels of ability to allow access and challenge for all. Classroom teachers and Form tutors have the responsibility of the daily education of your child and will be supported and advised by the SENCo where necessary. We are proud to announce that in 2016 Claydon High School has received an award from The Dyslexia-SpLD Trust. Staff worked jointly with The Dyslexia-SpLD Trust and The Professional Association of Teachers of Students with Specific Learning Difficulties on a programme of training to raise staff awareness, therefore increasing the amount of support they can offer students in the classroom with these difficulties. We explored how we can make our lessons more accessible for students with literacy difficulties. In 2015 Claydon High School were awarded the Secondary Talk award from ican. This was following a year long CPD programme for teachers and LSAs supported by a trainer from ican. Secondary Talk is an evidence-based practical programme to help schools support young people to develop essential communication skills, the foundation skills for learning, literacy and life. It has been shown to contribute to improved engagement in learning and attainment.

5. HOME ‘Be the best you can be’ Partnership Working Claydon High School Learning Support works closely with outside agencies to ensure our students have the appropriate amount of support to help them become the ‘Best They Can Be’. These agencies include: Advisory Teachers (Suffolk County Council) Behaviour Support Service Community Paediatrics County Inclusive Resource (CIR) Early Help Team Education Psychologists Integrated Delivery Team Occupational Therapists Physiotherapists School Counsellor School Nursing Team SENDIASS (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information Advice and Support Service) Sensory and Communication Advisory Teachers Speech and Language Therapists SpLD Outreach Base Suffolk County Council Learning Improvement Service

6. HOME ‘Be the best you can be’ Interventions We use a wide range of appropriate interventions to suit the need of the individual student. Interventions include: Targeted Intervention to support access to the curriculum and help our students develop their independent learning. Social Skills programmes to help students with their social and emotional development. Speech and Language groups for students who have a speech and language difficulty and EAL students. Early morning mentoring for students to help them address social and emotional issues which affect their learning progress. We also use various interventions daily to support literacy, numeracy and ICT skills such as: AccelRead & AccelWriteCatch Up Literacy Maths WorkoutMyCognition Numeracy WorkoutPower² QUESTRead and Write Gold Self-Esteem Group Touch Typing SpellZoneUnits of Sound These are reviewed regularly to ensure that they are meeting the needs of our students and that progress is being made by them.

7. HOME ‘Be the best you can be’ Our SENCo If you have any concerns about your child's progress, your first point of contact should be your child’s Form tutor or Subject teacher and then Head of Year or Head of Faculty. However, if you and their teacher still have concerns, you can make arrangements to meet with the SENCo Mr Pope. The Governing Body of the School have also appointed a Governor with special responsibility for SEND, Ms Sheridan. Ms Sheridan SEND Governor Mr Pope SENCo

8. HOME ‘Be the best you can be’ SEND Codes As of September 2015 Claydon High School has changed the way we code our SEND students. Students will no longer fall into the categories of School/Early Years Action (A), School/Early Years Action Plus (P) or Statement (S). The new categories are: Educational Health Care Plans (EHC Plan) will replace Statements and students who fall into this category will have a formal assessment completed by the Local Authority. School Based Support (K) will be used for students who are currently being supported by the SENCo and Learning Support Team.

9. HOME ‘Be the best you can be’ Pastoral Support Pastoral Support is co-ordinated by the Student Management Team and the team meet on a regular basis to review progress, achievement and pastoral matters. This team is made up of: Mr Sim – Assistant Head Mr Pope – SENCo Mr Webb – Head of Years 8 - 9 Mrs Clarke – Head of Years 7 & 10 Mrs Robinson – Head of Year 11, Director of Learning and Senior Designated Safeguarding Person Mrs Steele – Student Manager Pastoral Support interventions include: School Counsellor School Nurse Youth Support Workers from the Early Help Team Transition Coach ATAT Mentoring for SEND students Behaviour Support Service Additional Tutor Mentoring

10. HOME ‘Be the best you can be’ Jargon Busting Abbreviation Description AT Advisory Teachers ATAT Aspiration, Testing, Achievement and Targeting BSS Behaviour Support Service CAF Common Assessment Framework CIR County Inclusive Resource CoP Code of Practice. Special Educational Needs (SEND) Code of Practice: for 0 to 25 years. Statutory guidance for organisations who work with and support young people with SEND. This is the government document that sets out the requirements for SEND. EP Educational Psychologist EWO Educational Welfare Officer LA Local Authority LA Local Offer States what the LA will be offering schools and other providers in terms of SEN LSA Learning Support Assistants work in and out of the classroom with identified pupils supporting their learning in a range of ways PIPs Personal Improvement Plans SALT Speech and Language Therapist SENCo Special Educational Needs Coordinator SEND Special Educational Needs and Disabilities SENDIASS Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information Advice and Support Service Subject Specific TA Subject specific Teaching Assistants work within core subjects (English and Maths) within school TAC Team Around the Child VI Visual Impairment YSW Youth Support Worker

11. HOME ‘Be the best you can be’ Jargon Busting (Cont) Abbreviation Description ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ASD Autistic Spectrum Disorder EAL English Additional Language EHC plan Education and Health Care plan – these are replacing Statements of SEN. They require a formal assessment of SEN by the LA and may result in the school receiving ‘top up’ funding to help support a child’s needs. HI Hearing Impairment PD Physical Disability SpLD Specific Learning Difficulty (Dyslexia) VI Visual Impairment

12. ‘Be the best you can be’ AFASIC (overcoming speech impairments)www.afasicengland.org.ukwww.afasicengland.org.uk Activities Unlimited (for children with special needs)www.activities-unlimited.co.ukwww.activities-unlimited.co.uk Autism Suffolkwww.autism.org.uk/autismsuffolkwww.autism.org.uk/autismsuffolk British Dyslexia Associationwww.bdadyslexia.org.ukwww.bdadyslexia.org.uk Dyspraxia Foundationwww.dyspraxiafoundation.org.ukwww.dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk Hyperactive Children’s Support Groupwww.hacsg.org.ukwww.hacsg.org.uk I CAN – (speech & language impaired)www.ican.org.ukwww.ican.org.uk Indigo Dyslexia Centrewww.4dyslexics.comwww.4dyslexics.com Mencap (learning difficulties)www.mencap.org.ukwww.mencap.org.uk National Autistic Societywww.nas.org.ukwww.nas.org.uk National Deaf Children’s Society www.ndcs.org.ukwww.ndcs.org.uk SCOPE (disability support)www.scope.org.ukwww.scope.org.uk SENDIASS (Independent Support Services in Suffolk) Click here for more informationClick here for more information SENSE (deaf/blind charity)www.sense.org.ukwww.sense.org.uk Suffolk Dyslexia Associationwww.suffolkdyslexiaassociation.org.ukwww.suffolkdyslexiaassociation.org.uk Useful Links HOME

13. ‘Be the best you can be’ Local Authority Offer Claydon High School: SEND Policy Suffolk County Council: Local Offer