Cognition & Learning

If your child has Cognition & Learning difficulties, your child may need support with:

• Reading and spelling
• Learning new vocabulary and concepts
• Memory
• Number and calculations
• General learning

 

Your child may have conditions such as:

• Moderate Learning Difficulties (MLD)
• Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD)
• Downs Syndrome
• Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD): Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia

 

Support for all pupils:

        All pupils at St Nicholas are entitled to, and receive Inclusive Quality-First Teaching though a broad and balanced                   curriculum, which is appropriately differentiated to meet individual learner needs.

 

This is achieved through:

• Highly skilled teachers and well-trained support staff who are dedicated to your child’s academic, personal and social potential
• Appropriate learning challenges, matched the National Curriculum guidelines

 

Differentiated learning challenges through:

• Extending or reducing challenges
• Varying the amount of adult or peer support given to complete the challenge
• The way a learning challenge is delivered, completed and achieved. E.g. visually (looking), practically (doing), orally (speaking), aurally (listening).
• Different resources to complete learning challenges
• Different outcome of the challenge
• Multi-sensory approach to learning challenges
• Visual aids to support attention and listening skills, classroom organisation and language and concept development
• Reward systems
• Modelled language through repetition, emphasis and expansion
• More thinking time
• Writing slope boards, pencil grips and coloured overlays for reading
• Appropriate seating plan
• Talking partners & Peer support
• Early identification of needs through a graduated approach to teaching and learning
• Effective Accessibility, Anti-bullying, Behaviour Policy, Equalities, SEND & Inclusion and Teaching & Learning Policies

 

Additional Support

Your child may benefit from:

• Small group work with adult support
• Keep-up work in class with LSA
• Reading interventions
• Visual support for learning new words
• Support for sequencing skills
• Recordable devices to support memory for writing
• Supported reading
• Phonics intervention
• Speaking & Listening intervention
• Elklan’s Blank Level Questioning approach
• Technologies to support class work

 

SEN Support

You child may access:

• Pre teach and post teach learning sessions with LSA
• Small group interventions
• 1-1 or small group LSA support
• Phonics interventions
• 1-1 support using Speaking & Listening intervention
• Handwriting intervention
• Toe by Toe Programme
• Power of 2 Programme
• In class adult support
• 1-1 Pastoral Support
• Multisensory Dyslexia Intervention programme with Specialist Teacher
• Exam Access arrangements
• Advice and training for staff from specialists