Special Education Needs & Disabilities (SEND)

At Little Reddings, our job is to ensure that your child achieves the very best they can, no matter what barrier there may be with their learning. Approximately one in five children will have special education needs at some time during their school career – this may mean having a learning difficulty and/or physical difficulty that makes it harder for them to learn than most children of the same age.

We have a team of staff who may be involved in supporting your child at Little Reddings. These include:

• Your child’s teacher – your first port of contact for any concerns. They are available to you at the end of the day and often through booked appointments and manage the day to day provision and education for your child.
• Teaching Assistants – who support all pupils in the class. We have several additional TAs who help support groups with their learning and/or maybe allocated to individual children with specific special educational needs.
• Licensed Thrive Practitioner – Mr Wells – who works with children who may be experiencing a particular period of trauma or emotional difficulty.
• Nurture Room Leader – Mrs Noel – who supports children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.
• Pastoral Support – Mrs Wyborn– who primarily works with child protection concerns, attendance issues and children with an emotional or social difficulty.
• SENCO – Mr Power – who has the National Award for Special Educational Needs Co-ordination coordinates the provision of SEN in school and liaises with external agencies.

Children within school will get support that is specific to their individual needs. This may be all provided by the class teacher or may involve other staff in the school, staff who visit from Torbay’s central services or staff who visit from outside agencies such as the Speech and Language Therapy Service.

The Local Authority has special arrangements for assessing children and deciding which facilities are appropriate for the needs of each individual child. Parents and Carers may request that an assessment be made.

A formal assessment may result in an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan being issued. This EHC will indicate exactly what provision a child will receive.

Children are encouraged to take responsibility for their own learning and are helped to develop high self-esteem and motivation for learning. We involve the children (and parents) in every step of their own learning, for example, children help to construct their ISPs (Individual Support Plans) used for children who require a unique curriculum.

SEND Newsletter Archive

Useful Links

• SEND Code of Practice

Communication and Interaction

• What is Autism? The National Autistic Society Autism is a lifelong, developmental disability that affects how a person communicates with, and relates to, other people and the world around them.

Cognition and Learning

• Parent / Carer – British Dyslexia Association  The information contained within this website looks at indicators of specific learning difficulties, as well as supporting your child both at home and within the education system to ensure that they achieve the best possible outcomes.
• Eyes and Dyslexia / British Dyslexia Association  On this site you will find information regarding: Visual Stress, Finding a specialist practitioner, Resources, Aids for visual stress, Further reading.
• About Dyspraxia / Dyspraxia Foundation  Dyspraxia, a form of developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is a common disorder affecting fine and/or gross motor coordination in children and adults.
• Dysgraphia Help – About Dysgraphia  What is dysgraphia? The subtypes of dysgraphia. The causes of dysgraphia. How to identify dysgraphia. How can dysgraphia be overcome?
• Dyscalculia / British Dyslexia Association Dyscalculia is usually perceived of as a specific learning difficulty for mathematics, or, more appropriately, arithmetic.

Social Emotional and Mental Health

• Children and young people / Mind – the mental health charity  Gives information about where children and young people can get support with a mental health problem.
• Young Minds – Support for CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health) 

Physical and Sensory

• Hearing Impairment / Disability charity Scope UK  Help and information for the one in six people in the UK who have some degree of hearing impairment or deafness.
• Visual impairment / Disability  Information on blindness and visual impairment and list of support organisations.