What specialist strategies/equipment are available to support children with SEND?

• Adaptations have been made for wheelchair access throughout the school
• Handrails and sinks have been lowered for children with specific needs
• A radio mic is used for children with a hearing impairment
• Additional teaching room for small group withdrawal
• Visual timetables and prompts / Task boards / Now and Next boards
• Word banks / vocabulary mats and pre teaching of vocabulary
• Coloured overlays and bookmarks
• Access to laptops and IPads
• 1:1 support as appropriate
• Writing slopes / posture supports
• Fine motor programmes / pencil grip and letter formation / handwriting interventions
• Specialist cushions and chair
• Speech and Language programmes
• Memory games interventions
• Learning Support Assistants support pupils with severe and complex needs (EHCP)
• Withdrawal groups for interventions
• Extra time given for processing and tests
• Social skills groups for targeted children
• Smart Moves programme
• Transition programmes to support induction at new schools and transition to new classes
• Social Emotional and Mental Health support / counselling

Specific Strategies to support / develop Literacy

• Nessy Phonics program

• Phonics interventions related to phases
• Spelling catch up interventions

• Story Starters

• Sentence structure interventions

• Year 6 booster groups

• 1:1 Reading

• Comprehension interventions

• Touch typing training

Specific Strategies to support / develop Mathematics

• Maths interventions to address assessment gaps
• Ten frames and use of fingers to count / develop place value understanding
• Times tables booster
• Use of Wave 3 materials
• Numicon and other practical resources
• Year 6 booster groups