Inclusion at New Rickstones Academy:
The Inclusion team believes that every child matters and that the fundamental purpose of education is to prepare students to lead fulfilled, productive, responsible, happy and successful adult lives. We seek to do this by enabling each student to discover and develop their full potential and to make their best better.
The need for high self-esteem, individual self-confidence and the capability to manage personal change is important for life after school. The Inclusion team offers support and expertise to help resolve difficulties and promote positive solutions for students experiencing barriers to their learning. At times students need reinforcement, confidence boosting and reassurance in certain areas of their learning.
The team consists of Mrs Cruci (SENDCO) and Miss Scrivener (Assistant SENDCO).
We have a team of HLTA/LSAs who lead main intervention areas within the department.
In addition to this, we work closely with a wide range of outside agencies such as educational psychologists, speech and language therapists, outreach support services and occupational therapists.
The Academy supports Accelerated Reader and Lexia programmes. Further support is offered to our weakest readers (reading age sub-9 years) through LSA targeted support in the inclusion room. This occurs during DEAR sessions and through paired reading with selected Year 10 students each day.