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St. Catherine's CE Primary School

St. Catherine's CE Primary School
In God's Love, Together We Flourish

SEND

School offer for Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities

Our Vision

We aim to be a flourishing learning community, which celebrates all possibilities through a journey of exploration, engagement and enrichment, enabling all to take risks, build resilience and grow together in God’s love. Jesus said ‘I have come that you may have life in all its fullness’. We hold this at the heart of all we do.

At St. Catherine's, we believe that supporting disability and difficulties in learning is part of our high quality mainstream education service. Tackling the full range of pupil needs improves learning and the learning environment not only for SEND pupils but for everyone.

Mrs English-Mather, our Deputy headteacher, is our Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENDCo)

 

SEND provision at St. Catherine's

Our school is an inclusive school where every child matters; we aim to address children’s needs and support their development in the most appropriate way possible and celebrate effort as much as achievement. Additional and/or different provision is currently being made in school for children with a range of needs, including:

Our team has extensive experience and training in planning, delivering and assessing intervention programmes. Three Teaching Assistants are experienced Special Needs Assistants who have a range of skills and are deployed around school to fit the needs of children.

All staff are trained on the needs of new children joining the school – this can include training from specialist agencies or consultants, as well as from our SENDCo or other staff with relevant expertise. SEND training forms part of the continuing professional development of all teachers and Teaching Assistants and is organised in accordance with the needs of the children.

The school works closely with other local schools. The SENDCo meets with other SENDCos in the local area of Horwich and Blackrod cluster group once per half term to review and plan the training, guidance and advice that staff across the cluster.

 

How we identify individual SEND needs at St. Catherine's CE Primary School

How we adapt the curriculum so that that we meet the needs of all pupils

Transition to Secondary School

How we assess pupil progress

How we ensure the effectiveness of provision

  • There is a designated governor who has meetings with the SENDCo. During that meeting an evaluation of provision across school is completed, this is then fedback to governors in the form of a SEND report.

 How we ensure equal opportunities

 Agencies who support school 

  • Woodbridge Trust outreach service

The SEND Report & Policy

Read more about how we support children who have Special Educational Needs or Disabilities and their families.

SEND Information Report

 SEND Policy 

 Bolton SEND Local Offer