SEND
Surrey Square is a mainstream school that provides an inclusive education for children aged 2-11.
Surrey Square is a welcoming, inclusive school. As such, we welcome children of all abilities; our inclusive approach ensures all children are able to access and engage with a wide and varied curriculum, making progress and achieving success. We carefully plan provisions to match the individual, looking at the whole child; supporting all pupils to overcome barriers to learning and become confident and successful learners.
We now have two SENDCos at Surrey Square, with each SENDCo responsible for a different phase or key stage. Our school SENDCos are:
Year 2,3,4,5,6
The SENDCos are responsible for:
- Coordinating the support for children with SEND and developing the school’s SEND Policy to make sure all children get a consistent, high quality response to meeting their needs in school.
- Ensuring that you as a parent/carer are: – involved in supporting your child’s learning – kept informed about the support your child is getting – involved in reviewing how they are doing through termly TLC meetings between you and the staff working with your child.
- Liaising with all the other people who may be coming into school to help support your child’s learning e.g. Speech and Language Therapist, Educational Psychologist etc.
- Updating the school’s SEND register (a system for ensuring all the SEND needs of pupils in this school are known) and making sure that there are records of your child’s interventions, progress and needs.
- Providing specialist support for teachers and support staff in the school so they can help children with SEND in the school achieve the best progress possible.
The Head teachers are responsible for:
- The day to day management of all aspects of the school; this includes the support for children with SEND.
- They will allocate responsibility to the SENDCO and class teachers but are still responsible for ensuring that your child’s needs are met.
- They must make sure that the Governing Body is kept up to date about any issues in the school relating to SEND.
The SEND Governor is responsible for:
- Ensuring that the necessary support is provided for any child who has SEND, through termly meetings with the SENDCO and termly reports from the Head teacher
- Monitoring the effectiveness of SEND provision in the school.
The Hive
The Hive space has been developed over the last 2 years to enable children to access e curriculum and flourish in an environment that meets their needs.
All of the room names are named after flowers.
- Always a hive of engagement and enjoyment
- Flowers and bees work together in partnership and as part of the community
- The symbol of the hive represents the team: all working together and celebrating difference and how unique we all are
- The bee and beehive represents the buzz of activity, perseverance and hard work
Why?
- We have increasing levels of children with high complex needs at SSQ who can not access and participate in the mainstream curriculum of literacy and maths.
- It is a smaller, quieter environment which children feel calmer and happier in.
- There is a sensory room in the building where children’s sensory needs can be met.
- The curriculum can be planned and delivered, catering for the children’s individual needs.
How does it work?
- Children are grouped in ability and need into different rooms with adult support.
- Jo leads the Darwin provision and planning is carried out by Jo, in conjunction with class teachers, SENDCOs and subject leads.
- All teaching and learning is assessed and quality assured in the same way that it is in the rest of the school.
- Children attend Darwin provision in the mornings and have playtime and lunchtime with their peers. The children go back to class in the afternoons.
The Hive team
