SEND
Mrs Thompson is our SEND Co-ordinator, our Designated Safeguarding Lead and Senior Lead for Mental Health and Wellbeing. She completed the NASENCO qualification in 2019. She has recently been appointed to be a Train the Trainer provider for the Autism Education Trust, in partnership with Cumbria Inclusion Service, and will deliver local training to primary schools in Cumbria.
Mrs Thompson is available to listen to any concerns or to provide advice. Please email to arrange a meeting or a call: senco@seascale.cumbria.sch.uk
SEND provision at Seascale School
At Seascale Primary School we provide for children with a wide range of Special Educational Needs:
- Communication and Interaction
- Cognition and Learning
- Social, Emotional and Mental Health
- Physical and/or Sensory Needs
These areas of need may overlap in many ways.
At Seascale School, we do not seek or require a diagnosis in order to support children: we teach each child according to their individual need. Only when these needs are significant enough to require support additional to, or different from, their peers do we begin to identify a child as having SEND. Most of our children with SEND work alongside their peers for their learning, sometimes with additional or different support within class. At times, children are supported outside of class in one-to-one activities with an adult or in small groups. There are times when children are sufficiently resourced to allow them to follow a bespoke curriculum in school to meet their learning needs. All children in school are enabled to follow the broad routines of the whole school and we actively encourage pupil independence within these parameters. We have a highly trained staff with experience of supporting children with a wide rage of needs and disabilities. All pupils are supported in building positive relationships with staff and children alike.
At various times in their educational career, children may require differing levels of support with their learning. Parents and children will be consulted fully at all stages of this process, using a graduated response.
At Seascale School, we continually review our Special Needs provision, and we follow the guidelines as laid down by the Local Authority and the SEND Code of Practice.
What parents and professionals have said about our support
- Seascale SEND Policy
- Seascale SEND Information Report
- Seascale Accessibility Plan
- Admissions for SEND pupils with EHCP
- Autism Support and Advice Group
- Children's Therapy Toolkit
- Council For Disabled Children
- Cumberland Local Offer
- Cumberland's Continuous SEND Improvement Plan
- Cumberland Parent Carer Forum
- Early Help Leaflet
- Emotion-Based School Avoidance
- NSPCC Safeguarding Support and Advice PANTS
- Online Safety for children with SEND
- SEND Code of Practice
- Support for Families
- Targeted Short Breaks