Special Educational Needs

At Miltoncross Academy, we expect all students, including those with SEND, to achieve and make progress in line with the achievements and progress of all other children within the school, and those nationally.

The SEND Code of Practice says that:

A child or young person has SEND if they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made for him or her.

A child of compulsory school age or a young person has a learning difficulty or disability if they:

A child under compulsory school age has special educational needs if they are likely to fall within the definition above when they reach compulsory school age or would do so if special educational provision was not made for them.

There are four broad categories of SEND:

1.  Communication and interaction – such as Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and Speech and Language difficulties.

2.  Cognition and learning – such as Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Moderate Learning Difficulties.

3.  Social, emotional and mental health – such as ADHD, Attachment Disorders, emotional difficulties and mental health difficulties.

4.  Physical and sensory – such as a physical disability that impairs learning, hearing impairments and visual impairments

Our SENCO is Mr J Mersey who can be contacted via joe.mersey@miltoncross-tkat.org.

Please visit our Policies page to read our SEND Policy.

Click here to read our SEND Information Report.

The arrangements for the admission of SEND students can be found on our Policies page.

The Local Offer sets out Portsmouth City Council’s approach to SEN and contains lots of useful information click here to read it.