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SEN Information Report
Abbreviations:
SEND: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
SENDco: Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator
ASC: Autistic Spectrum Condition
RANS: Rochdale Additional Needs Service
TASC: Team for Autism and Social Communication
EHC team: Education Health Care team
EHCP: Education Health Care Plan
A copy of the SEND policy is also available on the website stating the schools philosophy on SEND in more detail. The schools 'Local Offer' is also available to read which states what we offer as a school. The Accessibility Plan is also on the website too.
The kinds of special educational needs for which provision is made at Shawclough:
Shawclough is an inclusive, welcoming school. We recognise that some children face certain barriers to learning. Our aim is to work alongside parents/carers to identify such barriers children may face and provide an inclusive environment where children succeed.
Parents/carers requesting a placement in our specialist provisions will need to contact Rochdale EHC team. Children must have an EHCP for specialist provision placements.
Shawclough provides provision for children with a range of needs including:
- Cognition and Learning (English and Maths difficulties as examples)
- Physical and Sensory (hearing impairments, sensory needs as examples)
- Communication and Interaction (Autistic Spectrum Condition as an example)
- Social, Emotional and Mental Health (ADHD, anxiety as examples)
- Health (medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes as examples)
To enable school to effectively meet the needs of children with SEND Shawclough have...
- A part time SENDco is employed for 15 hours per week, to co-ordinate SEND throughout our mainstream school. Our SENDco, Johanna Chamberlain, has 26 year’s teaching experience including teaching children with SEND. She has completed a SENDco course with a prominent specialist, Jackie Lloyd, under the Real Trust Training in Rochdale. Plus many other courses related to the role of SENDco over the last five years. She has completed training days at SENDco National Award course too. She has worked with parents/carers, The Local authority and many outside agencies for almost five years at Shawclough to support school being able to meet the needs of pupils at Shawclough.
- Our ASC Rainbow Unit SENDco and manager, Charlotte Keegan, has completed the National Award in SEND Co-ordination, Post Graduate Certificate in Inclusive Education and a Masters degree in Autistic Spectrum Conditions. She is also an experienced class teacher. She also has received local authority accreditation as an ‘Autism Champion’.
- From September 2023, Shawclough has a new specialist provision classroom called ‘Rainforest’. There are currently four pupils in this specialist provision and the school is due to expand to hopefully secure more specialist places in the future. Rowan Rush, the class teacher has extensive experience teaching in mainstream Reception class, including children with SEND and prior to teaching, vast experience working in the health service.
- Our deputy head teacher Vicky Rayment organises training for staff including teaching assistants. For example, teaching assistants access training to be able to deliver high quality interventions e.g. reading interventions.
- School are in the process of recruiting a new Pastoral Worker to replace Bev Sharp, who left Shawclough October 2023.
- Our deputy head teachers, Vicky Rayment and Paula Wilson have completed a dyslexia course with Rochdale’s Educational Psychology Service in 2018.
- School work very closely with outside agencies including CAMHS (formally Healthy Young Minds), Rochdale Additional Needs Service (RANS), Educational Psychology Service, Speech and Language Therapy Service, Occupational Therapy Service, The Behaviour Team (Fair Access Team), the School Nurses and the Education Health Care (EHC) Team at Rochdale. Shawclough now has an EHC team for Shawclough: Tom Rawdon (EHC assessment and review officer), Emma Leatham (EHC assistant officer) and Claire Flemming (EHC co-ordinator).
- School will endeavour to make reasonable adjustments to support children accessing the mainstream and specialist provision environments. This includes stair lifts to ensure children with specific disabilities are able to access the school environment appropriately.
How we identify individual special educational needs:
- When pupils have already been identified as having SEND before they come to Shawclough, we work alongside the people who already know them and use the information already available to help identify what their SEND will be at our school setting.
- If you tell us you think your child has SEND we will discuss this with you and check it out. We will share with you what we find and discuss what our next steps will be.
- If our staff think that your child has a SEND this may be because they are not making the same progress as other pupils or may be struggling to follow instructions for example. We will carry out observations and assessments and decide on appropriate actions/interventions/additional provision.
- Our aim is to involve parents/carers every step of the way to ensure we work together to effectively meet the needs of the child.
How we involve pupils and their parents/carers in identifying SEND and meeting the child's needs:
- We are child and family centred, so any decisions made will be done together.
- We will also take into account any issues your child may have at home and aim to work together to ensure we are all helping your child in the same way.
- We create a ‘Provison Map’ for your child (see SEND policy). This will state the area of difficulty/SEND your child has and what exactly we are putting in place to support your child. Your child's ‘Provision Map’ will be shared during parents evening and will be reviewed termly. We welcome your input as parents/carers when writing your child’s Provision Map.
- Each class teacher also has a Monitoring sheet where they can log concerns. This is instead of or before a provision map is needed.
How we adapt the curriculum/teaching approaches to meet the needs of children with SEND:
- Shawclough provide an inclusive learning environment. We adapt our teaching approaches in order to meet the needs of all children.
- All staff are trained to adapt lessons and use resources to meet the needs of all children to ensure every child is able to learn at their own level.
- We may use additional materials/resources to ensure children with SEND are working at the right level. Examples include access to a computer/laptop/I Pad to help with written work; teaching assistant support within the class; allow extra time for completion and provide visual timetables to support children. We also sometimes ability group in Maths and English. Phases 2 and 3 have an additional teacher employed within the phases to provide additional support for specific groups of children (e.g. SATS support in year 6).
- We are highly trained in a number of interventions used for children with SEND. Examples of these include Precision Teaching, Read Write Inc 1:1, Reading Intervention, Direct Phonics, Pastoral support groups.
- We will seek advice from other members of staff and may also go to other agencies for further advice (e.g. RANS TASC team).
- Teachers may use a variety of resources to support teaching and learning, for example Numicon (Maths), interactive whiteboard, whiteboards, netbooks, individual work stations, visual timetables.
Complaints procedure
We aim to resolve complaints as quickly as we possibly through talking and working together.
The complaints procedure is as follows:
- The complaint is dealt with the class teacher.
- If the complaint is not resolved then the complaint will be discussed with a member of the senior leadership team.
- If there is still no resolution the head teacher should become actively involved.
- In the unlikely event of the matter still being unable to be resolved then the complainant must put their complaint in writing to the Chair of Governors who will follow complaint procedures to help resolve the issue.
- Following this a complaint can be made to the Local Authority.
Contact details for parents. Please also see Rochdale’s Local offer:
SENDco ASC Rainbow Unit:
Charlotte Keegan (available Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
ckeegan@shawclough.rochdale.sch.uk
01706 647991
Class teacher Rainforest:
Rowan Rush (available Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
rrush@shawclough.rochdale.sch.uk
01706 647991
SENDco Mainstream School:
Johanna Chamberlain (available Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday between 9am and 2pm)
jchamberlain@shawclough.rochdale.sch.uk
01706 647991
Parent Partnership Service, Rochdale
Family Action, 25 Lingmell Close, Middleton, Greater Manchester, M24 4HS
0161 653 4461
parent.partnership@family-action.org.uk
Children aged 0-5
Area SENCO Team - Early Years, 4th Floor, Number One Riverside, Smith Street, Rochdale, OL16 1XU
01706 926400
Educational Health CareTeam (EHC team)
Rochdale Borough Council, 4th Floor, Number One Riverside, Smith Street, Rochdale OL16 1XU
01706 925981 sen@rochdale.gov.uk
Rochdale Additional Needs Service
RANS Leadership Team, 4th Floor, Number One Riverside, Smith Street, Rochdale, OL16 1XU
01706 926400
rans@rochdale.gov.uk
Children with Disabilities Team
Children with Disabilities Team, 4th Floor, Number One Riverside, Smith Street, Rochdale, OL16 1XU
01706 925900 cwd@rochdale.gov.uk
Educational Psychologists
Rochdale Educational Psychology Service, 4th Floor, Number One Riverside, Smith Street, Rochdale OL16 1XU
01706 926400
educational.psychologyservice@rochdale.gov.uk
CAMHS (formally known as Healthy Young Minds)
Birch Hill Hospital, Birch Road, Rochdale, OL12 9QB
01706 676000
healthyyoungmindspennine.nhs.uk/
Social Care
Number One Riverside, Floor 4, Smith Street, Rochdale, OL16 1XU
0300 303 0440
0300 303 8875 (out of hours)
999 (emergency calls)
ehash@rochdale.gov.uk