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SEND INFORMATION / ANNUAL REPORT

St. Teresa’s is a fully inclusive school.

The life of St Teresa’s School is centred on our Catholic faith, in which we proclaim the Gospel values such as love, peace and justice, which influence all our activities and relationships.

We value and encourage the uniqueness of each child and recognise that everyone has a positive contribution to make to the life of the school community.

We value worshiping and celebrating together, sharing our Christian witness and building upon the foundations already established at home where parents are the first educators of their children.

SEN POLICY

At St Teresa’s Catholic Primary school, we value the abilities and achievements of all our children, as our school mission statement states, and we are committed to providing the best possible environment for learning, for all children.

This school provides a broad and balanced curriculum for all children. When planning, teachers set suitable learning challenges and respond to children’s diverse learning need or disability. Some children have barriers to learning which means they have special needs and require particular action by the school.

These requirements are likely to arise as a consequence of a child having special educational needs. Teachers take account of these requirements and make provision, where necessary, to support individuals or groups of children and so enable them to participate effectively in curriculum and assessment activities. Such children may need additional support or different support from that given to other children of the same age.

Children may have special educational needs either throughout their school career or at any time during their school career. Our curriculum planning and assessment for children with special educational needs and disabilities takes account of the type and extent of the difficulty experienced by the child.

You can download our SEND Policy from the Policies tab of this website.

SEND INFORMATION / ANNUAL REPORT

This plan has been written to meet the requirements of school to carry out accessibility planning for disabled pupils as stated in the Equality Act 2010 and the SEND code of practice 2014.

At St Teresa’s Catholic Primary school we value the abilities and achievements of all our children, as our school mission statement states, and we are committed to providing the best possible environment for learning for all children. We are committed to ensuring equality of education and opportunity for all our pupils, staff and all those who are part of our school community. This includes those who are disabled.

You can download our Accessibility Plan above.

INTERVENTIONS

At St. Teresa’s we offer a wide range of interventions which cater for children of all needs.

Cognitive and specific learning difficulties


Programmes to support Literacy:

  • Small group support in class- teacher or TA

  • ELS Phonics

  • Toe-by-Toe

  • Boosting Reading@Primary

  • The Write Stuff

  • Project X Reading

Programmes to support Mathematics:

  • Small group support in class- teacher or TA

  • Success@Arithmetic

  • Number Stacks

  • Plus One

  • Power of Two

  • Numicon

Communication and interaction difficulties

  • Social Stories

  • Talk Boast

Social, emotional and mental health needs

  • Thrive

  • Nurture/ friendship group

  • Specialist Counselling sessions (The Road Centre)

  • BU Programme

Sensory and physical needs

  • Motor co-ordination group

  • Dyspraxia support programme

  • Write from the Start

EXTERNAL AGENCY SUPPORT

Our first priority is to work with you to support your child in every way possible  through quality first teaching. Following the Newcastle SEND Graduated Response, there may be times when we may access external support from one or more agency.

These external agencies may act in an advisory capacity, or provide additional specialist assessment or be involved in teaching your child directly.

Together this professional partnership is there to support the pupils through fully inclusive practice.

External services accessed through the SEND Advice and Support Allocation Panel:

  • Educational Psychology

  • SEND Outreach Service (Inc SpLD)

  • Support from specialist schools and settings

  • Individual Pupils Support (IPS) Funding

External Agencies involved in school are:

  • NHS Speech Therapy Department

  • Speech and Language Therapy Team (SALT) – Angela Gemmel

  • School Nurse (School Nursing Team)

  • School Councillor -Mrs Vicky Foster  

  • Children Young Person Service (CYPS) Newcastle

  • Children and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHs) North Tyneside

  • School Safeguarding Officer-Dan Tolan

The National Autistic Society: www.autism.org.uk

Dyslexia Action: www.dyslexiaaction.org.uk

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: www.adhd.org.uk

Children’s North East: Telephone: 01912562444 www.children-ne.org.uk– supports families and children facing social issues

Children’s and Young People’s Service: Telephone: 01912466913 – supports families facing mental health issues ADHD Service with Barnado’s Telephone: 019126566, www.barnados.org.uk

Families information Service: www.newcastlefis.org.uk

Dyspraxia Foundation: Telephone: 01913845858, https://dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk/

Cerebra: Telephone: 01912308036, http://w3.cerebra.org.uk/

Newcastle Local Offer: https://www.newcastlesupportdirectory.org.uk/kb5/newcastle/fsd/localoffer.page?localofferchannel=0

SUPPORTIVE SEND RESOURCES FOR HOME

Dear Parents/ Carers,

During their time in school, pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities are supported in many ways. This section of the website will work as a way of offering more resources that may be beneficial to families supporting pupils with special educational needs. If you have any specific questions or would like further support and advice for your child’s individual needs, I am available to contact via the school email office@stteresasnewcastle.org.uk

Thank you for your continued support.

Miss McTernan

SENCO

DCD

Dyslexia

Memory Games

Speech And Language – Talk

Listen and Do Games

1.Two Word Level

2.Three Word Level

3.Four Word Level

5.Five Word Level

6.Higher Level

Tapestry Resources

Wellbeing and Mental Health

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