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Greenfields Primary

Greenfields
Primary School

  • Welcome to the Greenfields Primary School website.
  • We are proud to be part of the Severn Bridges Multi-Academy Trust.

SEND Support in School

Who's Who?

Mrs H Thorpe - SENCo

 

Tel: 01743 236397

Email: hthorpe@greenfieldssbmat.com

 

Miss G Picknell - SEND Lead Teacher

 

Cognition and Learning Support Staff

 

Miss L Featherstone

Mrs G Owen

Mrs C Gough 

Mrs V Jones - Communication and Interaction Support Staff

 

Mr F Grimstead - Physical Development and Social, Emotional, Mental Health Support Staff

 

Ms E Bates - Social, Emotional and Mental Health Support Staff

 

SEND Procedures

All staff in school constantly monitor all children’s progress. If a concern is raised by school or parents, it is logged on our monitoring system. Parents may be invited to complete a parent SEND questionnaire. A Pupil Centred Plan will be set up under a monitoring Class Action category and used to create targets, record provision implemented and monitor progress. Following cycles of this, if progress is limited, then the child will be put onto the SEND register and parents will be informed of this. Where children have additional needs they will be supported in accessing the full curriculum. We may feel at this point that a referral to the appropriate external agency, with the permission of parents, is required. 

We will work with parents at every stage and ensure both children and families feel supported. Parents will be kept updated throughout our monitoring process.

 

What should you do if you have concerns regarding your child?

Always go to the class teacher in the first instance, they know your child the best and work with them daily or regularly. This is likely to be all that is needed to resolve your concerns. Don’t wait until parents’ evening!

If you are still concerned and your child is already on the SEND Register you could then go to the SENCO. Hopefully you and the SENCO will be able to work together with the class teacher to resolve any issues.

If you think they should be on SEND Support and they are not, go through the class teacher.

If you still have concerns go to the Headteacher, and finally, the Governors, particularly the SEND Governor.

 

Monitoring

Children on the SEND register have a Pupil Centred Plan (PCP) which outlines short-term targets and provision in place to support meeting these, usually informed by external agency reports. All PCPs are reviewed termly; targets and provision are adapted accordingly. 

Professional discussions are made between teachers and senior management during pupil progress meetings. This supports further identifying and understanding children’s needs, and also considers additional provision to further support the child. 

For children with Education Health Care Plans (EHCP), their plan is reviewed annually and amended at appropriate stages throughout their school journey with support from the Local Authority. Within school, EHCP long-term outcomes are reviewed by the class teacher on a termly-basis.

All children with SEND are offered a longer parents evening appointment each term. 

 

EHCP

An education, health and care plan (EHCP) is a legal document which sets out the education, health and social care needs of a child or young person for whom extra provision is needed in school, beyond that of our targeted provision which we provide using school funds.

The plan will focus on outcomes (what the child or young person wants to achieve) and what provision is needed to achieve those outcomes. This could include specific interventions, adult training, extra resources or additional support. An adult may be used to support your child within the classroom environment or when working in small groups and run individual programmes. The outcomes specified on a child’s EHCP is reflected by the amount of funding provided from the Local Authority. Families and professionals work together to consider the outcomes they would like to see and how best to meet them.

 

Data

SEND Support in Shropshire ranges from: Primary 2.7% to 38.7% - national – 13.5%

EHCP support in Shropshire ranges from: Primary 0 - 9.9% (Hub provision) national 2.5%

What is the SEN data for Greenfields Primary School?

Number of children on role - 364 children (including nursery)

Number of children at SEND support - 42 children 11.5%

Number of children with EHCP - 19 children 5.2%

 

Training

Across the school, our staff have engaged in a range of different training with the relevant agencies, please note this is just an overview of examples rather that an exact list as it is constantly changing:

  • Autism
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Attachment training Level 1
  • Boxall Profile 
  • Child Protection and Safeguarding
  • Colourful Semantics
  • Contrastive pairs
  • Developmental coordination disorder
  • DEXYs
  • Dyslexia
  • Epi-pen training
  • First Aid
  • Future in Mind
  • Makaton training
  • NELI - Nuffield Early Language intervention
  • Nurture group training
  • NurtureUK
  • Sensory Integration
  • Sensory Inclusion for hearing impaired
  • Sensory Inclusion for visually impaired
  • Talk Boost
  • Verbal reasoning

 

External Agencies

We welcome outside agencies to come in and support us both in class and in staff training such as:

  • Health Visitors
  • School Nurse
  • Speech and language therapy
  • Physiotherapy
  • Occupational therapy
  • 0-25 Emotional Health and Wellbeing team
  • Learning Support Advisory Teacher
  • Educational Psychologist
  • Sensory Inclusion Services
  • MATi Outreach support
  • BeeU Services