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