All staff have the information about the individual needs of pupils so learning can be adapted as necessary. Lesson plans are differentiated for groups or individual pupils according to their needs, and High Quality teaching strategies are put in place in order to support those requiring additional support.

Learning support assistants provide additional adult support and interventions to help pupils with additional needs to make good progress. We have 25 Learning Support Assistants (LSAs) who support across the school as needed. They teach small groups of children within the classroom to focus on specific learning during English and Maths lessons. They may also teach children on an individual basis when appropriate e.g. reading.

Sometimes children are taught in small groups or individually outside the classroom following specialist teacher’s advice on particular difficulties at specific times e.g. fine motor skills, speech therapy. Children are taught in mixed ability classes for all subjects.

Provision beyond the expected differentiated classroom approach takes the form of high quality personal teaching and learning carried out by additional qualified teachers and a HLTA. Where there is significant need, additional core funding may be sought and the Local Authority requested to carry out an assessment in order to develop an Education Health Care Plan [EHCP].