My child needs support with Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties
Your child may need support with:
- Attendance
- Attention and listening skills
- Anxiety
- Impulsivity and/or hyperactivity
- Low self-esteem
- Managing anger
- Forming and maintaining relationships
- Depression
- Bereavement
- Life outside school
Your child may have a diagnosis of ADD/ADHD, Attachment Disorder or Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) - please see our section for ASD within Communication and Interaction.
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:
- Behaviour support
- Health Care Plan
- Buddy System
- Reflection Boards
- Playground support
- Access to quiet areas
- Family Support
- Pastoral support and guidance
SEN Support
You child may access:
- Circle of Friends intervention
- Health Care Plan
- Playground support
- Access to quiet space at break times
- Individual Reflection Boards
- Personalised visual prompts and resources
- Social Stories, Comic Strips Conversations and Contingency Maps
- Technologies to support listening & attention and anger
- Pastoral support during lessons
- Pastoral Support programmes: Anxiety, Anger Management, Self-Esteem, Draw and Talk, Friendship
- Lego Therapy
- Workstation area
- Sensory Diet and Movement breaks
- Small group Talkabout Self-Esteem, Social Skills and Friendship programmes
- Small group Emotional Literacy programme
- Longford Park Outreach Support
- Support from the School Nurse
- School-based Counselling sessions
- Behaviour & Emotional support using Risk & Resilience and RAMP Models
- Support, advice & training from specialists