Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
At Liberty Primary School, we pride ourselves on being a welcoming inclusive environment for all children.
We strive to remove barriers to learning, to enable all pupils to achieve equitably and participate fully at school. In order to do this, many steps are taken to support pupils in their learning. We maintain a primary focus on high quality inclusive classroom teaching so that all children can reach at least age-expected levels. However, for some children, additional support is needed to help them achieve this.
The 2014 Code of Practice says: “A child or young person has special educational needs if he or she has a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made for him or her. A learning difficulty or disability is a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age. Special educational provision means educational or training provision that is additional to, or different from, that made generally for others in a mainstream setting in England.”
At Liberty Primary School we follow a graduated support approach which is called “Assess, Plan, Do, Review”. This means that we will:
- Assess a child’s special educational needs
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Plan the provision to meet your child’s aspirations and agreed outcomes
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Do put the provision in place to meet those outcomes
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Review the support and progress
As part of this approach, we will produce a SEN Support Plan that describes the provision that we will make to meet a child’s special educational needs and agreed outcomes. Parents and carers will be fully involved in this process.
A small percentage of children and young people with significant learning difficulties might need an assessment that could lead to an Education, Health and Care Plan. Full details can be found below.
If you have any questions regarding SEND matters do not hesitate to make contact:
Miss C Lawrance- liberty@liberty.merton.sch.uk- mainstream SENCo