Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND)

All children and young people are entitled to an education that enables them to make progress so that they achieve their best, become confident individuals living fulfilling lives, and make a successful transition into adulthood, whether into employment, further or higher education or training (6.1 final draft CoP).

A child or young person has special educational needs (SEN) if they have a learning difficulty or disability, which calls for special educational provision to be made for them. A child of compulsory school age or a young person has a learning difficulty or disability if they:

• Have a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age, or
• Have a disability which prevents or hinders him or her from making use of facilities of a kind generally provided for others of the same age in mainstream schools or mainstream post-16 institutions

In our school, we aim to offer excellence and choice to all our children, whatever their ability or needs. We have high expectations of all our children and aim to achieve this through the removal of barriers to learning and participation. We want all our children to feel that they are a valued part of our school community and ensure children and parents/carers are at the heart of decision-making.

In our Ofsted inspections across the Federation, provision for SEN has been identified as strong:

• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are particularly well-supported. They flourish in the small family environment. Both staff and pupils nurture them. Pupils with SEND are happy and making good progress. Planning is always adapted to meet their needs (Foston CE Primary Ofsted, 2020).
• Teaching and learning in RE is most effective when the learning journey is clear to pupils and the lessons are well differentiated to meet the needs of a diverse ability and age range (Terrington CE VA Primary SIAMS, 2019). Pupils with SEND make good progress. Their work is suitably adapted to enable them to access the same curriculum as their peers.(Terrington Ofsted, 2023)
• There are accurate systems to identify pupils who have additional needs. Teachers make regular checks to see how well pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are doing. The special educational needs coordinator provides staff with further advice where needed. Pupils with SEND have detailed plans that
  outline the support they should receive. Pupils with SEND receive well-planned and effective support. (Stillington Ofsted, 2024)

Pupils with special educational needs make good progress and many make rapid progress in English and Mathematics.

As a school we pride ourselves on our specialist knowledge of special needs, the range of quality first teaching strategies and our use of evidence-based interventions to support children to close any gaps. Our provision is identified in our whole school provision map attached below.

SEND Co-ordinator Neil Carlisle can be contacted through individual school offices or via telephone : 01653 618265 or emailed via : fostonoffice@foston.n-yorks.sch.uk marked FAO the SENCO

Our SEND link-Governor is: Mrs Helen Ashdown