Cognition and Learning

My child needs support with Cognition and Learning

Your child may need support with:

• Reading and spelling
• Learning new vocabulary and concepts
• Memory
• Number and calculations
• General learning

Your child may have conditions such as:

• Moderate Learning Difficulties (MLD)
• Downs Syndrome
• Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD): Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia

IQFT @ Heyes Lane:

All pupils at Heyes Lane are entitled to, and receive Inclusive Quality-First Teaching (IQFT) though a broad and balanced academic and social curriculum, which is appropriately differentiated to meet individual learner needs.  This is achieved through:

• Highly skilled, creative teachers and well-trained support staff who are dedicated to your child’s academic, personal and social potential
• Appropriate learning challenges, matched the National Curriculum guidelines
• Differentiated learning challenges through:
  • Extending or reducing challenges
  • Varying the amount of adult or peer support given to complete the challenge
  • The way a learning challenge is delivered, completed and achieved.  E.g. visually (looking), practically (doing), orally (speaking), aurally (listening).
  • Different resources to complete learning challenges
  • Different outcome of the challenge

• Multi-sensory approach to learning challenges
• Visual aids to support attention and listening skills, classroom organisation and language and concept development
• Reward charts
• Modelled language through repetition, emphasis and expansion
• More thinking time
• Writing slope boards, pencil grips and coloured overlays for reading
• Spell checkers for KS 2
• Appropriate seating plan
• Talk partners & Peer support
• Whole school approach to meta-cognition through our Learning Goals: Positive, Active and Creative, along with Challenges by Choice
• Early identification of needs through a graduated approach to teaching and learning
• Effective Accessibility, Anti-bullying, Behaviour Policy, Equalities, SEND & Inclusion and Teaching & Learning Policies

Additional Support

Your child may benefit from:

• Small group work with adult support
• Keep-up work in class with TA
• Lexia Reading intervention
• Visual support for learning new words
• Support for sequencing skills
• Recordable devices to support memory for writing
• Daily reading
• Letters & Sounds Phonics intervention Early Years & KS1
• Black Sheep Press Narrative and Speaking & Listening intervention
• Elklan’s Blank Level Questioning approach
• Technologies to support class work

SEN Support

You child may access:

• Catch-up learning sessions with TA
• Small group Numicon intervention Early Years 
• Precision Teaching
• Lexia Reading intervention
• 1-1 or small group TA support
• Phonics intervention Early Years & KS1
• 1-1 support using Black Sheep Press therapy packs for Narrative and Speaking  & Listening
• Reading for Meaning Pack
• Picture Questions Pack
• 1-1 narrative support using Colourful Semantics
• 1-1 writing support with Shape Coding
• Handwriting intervention
• Toe by Toe Programme
• Clicker 6 word, sentence and grammar support
• In class adult support
• 1-1 Pastoral Support
• Exam Access arrangements
• Advice and training for staff from specialists