Our Responsibility
The Valley Community Primary School is a caring and nurturing school; we strive to cater for the needs of all our children and believe that every child deserves the best possible education.
All teachers are directly responsible for all the pupils in their classes, including those children with SEN, as stated in the SEN Code of Practice (Department for Education and Department of Health, 2015).
At the Valley, we support children with needs in all four areas of SEND:
- Communication and Interaction
- Cognition and Learning
- Social, Emotional and Mental Health
- Sensory and/or Physical
Mrs A. Owens is our Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Co-ordinator (SENCO). If you have any questions about our SEN provision, please contact her via the school office.
Support for your child
Our priority is to help your child to achieve the very best that they can at school. We appreciate that you know your child best and that you may feel that they need some additional support for some or all of their time at school.
The ‘offer’ is published to show you the types of support available for your child at the Valley Community Primary School. It is intended to help you understand who can help and how this can be accessed.
SEN and Disabilities
Approximately one in five children will have SEN at some time during their school career.
Children with SEN will have learning needs or physical disabilities which make it harder for them to learn than most other children of their age. For this reason, they may need extra help. For example, with their learning, with an understanding of information, with remembering information, managing behaviour or organising themselves, etc. This extra provision is put in place to support children to be able to access the curriculum and to make further progress.
Our Public Sector Equality Duty
Our school aims to meet its obligations under the public sector equality duty by having due regard to the need to:
- Eliminate discrimination and other conduct that is prohibited by the Equality Act 2010
- Advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it
- Foster good relations across all characteristics – between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not share it
Further information can be found in the Equality Information and Objectives document and the Accessibility Plan (see Key Documents on this page).
Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP)
If your child’s needs are complex or severe, we may suggest that we ask the Local Authority for a statutory assessment. This document will describe your child’s SEN and the help they should receive.
If you would like to know what provision is in place for your child, or you have any concerns that your child has some additional needs then please speak to your child’s class teacher.
Schools have a legal duty to publish information on their website about the implementation of the governing body’s policy for pupils with SEN. This information is updated annually and can be accessed from the SEND Key Documents section.
