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 our creative, engaging and immersive 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 position
- Talk partners & Peer support
- Whole school approach to meta-cognition through our Learning Goals: Positive, Active and Creative
- Early identification of needs through a graduated approach to teaching and learning and meeting pupil needs
- Effective Accessibility, Anti-bullying, Relationships & Behaviour, Equalities, SEND & Inclusion, Safeguarding 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 and for some KS2 pupils
- 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 and some KS2 pupils
- 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