SEND
Our SENDCo is Mrs Zoe Barratt.
For all SEND queries, please email Mrs Barratt at zbarratt@joe.srscmat.co.uk
Thank you.
How do we know if a pupil needs extra help?
At St Joseph’s Catholic Voluntary Academy, early identification of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) is a priority.
As a school we follow a Graduated Response in identifying children with SEND. This includes the following:
- Parents may inform the school prior to or during admission
- Outside agencies may contact the school prior to / during admission or whilst the child is a pupil at the school
- The class teacher may identify concerns re progress or behaviours and SLT, SENCO, Teaching Assistants may become involved in a school based programme
- Behaviour tracking system to see if a child is continually struggling with their emotions and concentration
- It may be that we seek additional information from a specialist teacher eg assessments completed by outside agencies eg; Educational Psychology, Behaviour Support Service, CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service), School Health, Paediatricians, Speech and Language Therapists.
At different times in their school life, a child or young person may have a special educational need. The Code of Practice 2014 defines SEN as follows:
‘A child or young person has SEN if they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special education provision to be made for him or her.’
A child of compulsory school age or a young person has a learning difficulty if he or she:
- Has a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others the same age, or
- Has a disability which prevents or hinders him or her from making use of facilities of a kind generally provided
