Inclusion @ Whitefield

What types of Special Educational Needs (SEN) do you cater for and how is support provided?

A pupil has SEN if they have a learning difficulty or disability that calls for special educational provision to be made for them.

Special educational provision is educational or training provision that is additional to, or different from, that made generally for other children or young people of the same age by mainstream schools.

Whitefield Primary School is a mainstream primary school with a commitment to inclusive practice.  

Our school currently provides additional and/or different provision for a range of needs, including:

• Communication and interaction, for example, autistic spectrum disorder, speech and language difficulties

• Cognition and learning, for example, dyslexia, dyspraxia

• Social, emotional and mental health difficulties, for example, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

• Sensory and/or physical needs, for example, visual impairments, hearing impairments, processing difficulties, epilepsy

• Moderate/severe and multiple learning difficulties

When Whitefield receives a request for placement for a child with an EHCP we review that on a case by case basis in consultation with the family and in the context of the child's needs, current staffing and other needs within the school to ensure we can meet the child's needs.