Ensuring our SEND learner’s thrive.

We have high aspirations for all learners and will be committed to supporting our SEND learners to reach their full potential.

By knowing every child, we know that students may need different or additional support at specific times during their time in our school to be successful. Our school SENDCo will work closely with all teachers to identify early needs and assess which interventions or specialist support will be required. Florence will monitor progress to ensure support is appropriately pitched, targeted and personalised.

We understand that support must be holistic and focus upon the whole child. This means that alongside academic intervention and support, we will also focus upon social and emotional skills (particularly emotional regulation), growth mindset and self-esteem, life skills (such as self-organisation and time management) and well-being (physical and mental). We will aim to model reflective practice, which is not simply reactive but pro-active to anticipate and plan for support ahead of challenges to come. Whilst Florence’s curriculum has high aspirations for all pupils, teachers will know to adapt resources and outcomes for the ability of individual students. As such, pupils with additional needs will receive the same high-quality teaching input from their class teacher, whilst perhaps working on different targets to their peers.