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St Mary's Catholic Primary School

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Additional Needs and SEND

Accessibility

At St. Mary’s Catholic Primary School we are committed to providing a fully accessible environment and curriculum which values and includes all children and enables them to achieve their very best regardless of their education, physical, sensory, social, spiritual, emotional and cultural needs.  We aim to remove all barriers to ensure that every child can enjoy and fully participate in all aspects of school life and benefit from the full breadth and richness of the opportunities we provide.  We are further committed to developing a culture of awareness, tolerance and inclusion within our school.

We encourage all pupils to build up their own self-esteem and respect for other persons regardless of differences in race, gender, religion or social and economic background.  We seek to foster amongst pupils a pride in their own culture and in other cultures which they will encounter in the community and the outside world.

The school’s Accessibility Plan identifies the on-going actions to increase access to education for disabled pupils by increasing the extent to which disabled pupils and parents can participate in the school curriculum, improving the environment of the school to increase the extent to which disabled pupils and parents can take advantage of education and associated services and improving the delivery of information to people with disabilities.

 

Special Educational Needs

 

Whatever the ability of each pupil, the school seeks to provide a suitable teaching programme. As far as possible, all our children with Special Educational Needs are totally integrated within the school.

Each teacher has the responsibility of providing a differentiated curriculum for the whole ability range, through the effective match of learning tasks to pupils differing abilities.  Progress is carefully monitored by the Class Teacher. If a child is thought to require planning and monitoring beyond this level, an individual education plan will be drawn up in consultation with the Special Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO).  Such programmes are designed to overcome specific learning needs or behaviour problems and are regularly monitored and reviewed. In all cases parents are informed and regular discussion with them is encouraged.

Nationally, one fifth of all children may need special educational support at some point in their school career. Children with learning, social, emotional or behavioural problems are sympathetically helped by the staff in partnership with parents.  In certain cases it may be felt that outside professional help is needed, which would be sought only with parents’ prior permission and co-operation.

A separate Special Needs Policy is available from the school.  The Governor who is responsible for SEN monitors the school policy and its implementation.

St. Mary’s works with a number of external agencies to support our children’s learning, social and emotional needs.

Click below to download copies of the Accessibility Policy and Special Educational Needs Annual Report.

St Mary's Catholic Primary School Woodside Way Northampton Northamptonshire NN5 7HX

Telephone: 01604 581011

[email protected]

Our Lady Immaculate Catholic Academies Trust, C/o St Thomas More Secondary School, Tyne Crescent, Bedford, Mk41 7UL