Hello, everyone!

What a purposeful start to the academic year this autumn term has been!

The autumn term in Special Educational Needs is always a time of fresh beginnings and focused action. It’s a season for establishing strong systems, setting clear expectations, and ensuring every child’s needs are at the heart of our planning. Together with the team, we have been deeply engaged in implementing strategies, sharing best practice, and embedding approaches that support all pupils to thrive.

Our focus this term has remained on creating an inclusive and supportive environment for every young person with SEND, guided by our core intentions: promoting well-being, developing social, emotional, and mental health, raising aspirations, and securing positive learning outcomes.

From updating documentation and centralising resources to refining classroom strategies and SEMH support systems, every step has been taken to ensure that pupils are supported, staff are confident, and families are partners in their child’s learning journey. This autumn term has laid a strong foundation for continued growth and success throughout the year.

What have been working on this term:

• Assessing progress: Completion of baseline assessments to identify each child’s needs.

• Support plans: Reviewing and updating SEND support plans and SNAP profiles.

• Pupil voice: Launching consultations through 1:1 discussions and surveys so children’s views are included in their plans.

• Inclusion: Ensuring all children have access to extracurricular activities, clubs, and responsibilities.

• Life skills targets: Identifying pupils who would benefit from tailored life skills goals.

• Classroom strategies: Embedding strategies to support learning in everyday lessons.

• Parent engagement: Offering “Loose Lips” sessions with a SEND focus, providing SEND support packs, and sharing links to the Local Offer.

• Monitoring progress: Updating provision maps, SEND folders, and reviewing EHCPs, including targets from outside agencies (SALT, OT, etc.).

• Setting goals: Reviewing Autumn targets and creating new Spring targets to support ongoing progress.

We are committed to ensuring that all children feel supported, included, and empowered to succeed. If you have any questions or would like to discuss your child’s support plan, please contact the SEND team.

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In Computing, we’ve been learning how to use Google Docs and have been changing the font style, size and colour of text.

We also had a go on TT Rockstars before we put the Chromebooks away.