Regents Park Community College

The aim of the college’s Special Education Needs policy is to secure the best possible provision for all students with special educational needs in order to maximise their achievement.

We believe that all students are of equal value and are entitled to a broad and balanced curriculum which is differentiated to ensure maximum progress.

All teachers at Regents Park Community College are responsible for planning work which is both challenging but manageable for all students whatever their abilities or physical impairment. Learning and Inclusion Support staff work with teachers to support the development of an appropriate curriculum and assist students in lessons. In order to work on the development of specific skills, some students may also receive individual or small group tuition for short periods; withdrawing students from timetabled lessons is kept to a minimum.

The Assistant Headteacher: Inclusion (SENCo) ensures that students with statements of SEN receive the support specified in their statements. The Assistant Headteacher: Inclusion also ensures that other types of provision are made available to students with special needs, for example visits from Specialist Teacher Advisers, special equipment, behaviour support interventions and personalised programmes with external partners.

Close liaison with our partner schools across the Regents Park Family of Schools and those primary schools from whom students transfer means that students with special educational needs are already identified before they arrive at Regents Park. However all students are monitored throughout their time at the school so that any difficulties affecting their learning are dealt with appropriately.

The Inclusion team, led by the Assistant Headteacher: Inclusion, welcomes contact with parents, in person, by letter or telephone.

Full SEN Policy

The following websites have useful information for parents and enjoyable games to improve young peoples literacy, numeracy, thinking and subject skills:

www.parentcentre.gov.uk

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/

www.linktolearning.com  (Canadian but lots of relevant activities)

Spelling

• Encourage your son or daughter to refer to the spelling page at the back of her Planner.
  
   
• Encourage his/her to learn spellings corrected in her work which should be written on a Spelling Page at the back of each exercise book.
  
   
• When he/she has spellings to learn at home, remind her that the most effective way of learning them is by the:
  STUDY SAY COVER WRITE CHECK method.
  
   
• If your son/daughter finds spelling difficult, they will need to work on any spelling lists they are given at least 3 times per week. (They may be able to look at them once the night before a test and get them right but the words will not be stored in their long term memory.)

Improving Literacy Skills - How can I help now that my son or daughter is at

secondary school?

Useful websites