Special Educational Needs is co-ordinated by Mrs Ray. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with any queries, questions or issues related to Special Educational Needs by phone or email. Mrs Ray works in school every Monday and Thursday morning. Messages can be left with the school office throughout the week and these will be passed to Mrs Ray.
Our SEND Policy and SEND Information Report can be viewed on our policy page here.
York SEND Local Offer
Website: yorksend.org
Email: yorklocalofferSEND@york.gov.uk
Ordinary Available Provision and Graduated Response
Most children with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) will have their needs met effectively within the mainstream setting. Where a child or young person is identified as having SEND, schools will take action to remove barriers to learning and put effective provision in place. Schools’ professional judgement will dictate any reasonable adjustments that are made to meet need. These actions should be reviewed and refined through the cycle of Assess, Plan, Do, Review. We call this ‘The Graduated Response’.
The needs of the child or young person may change over time and provision should reflect this.
Where a child has complex, long term and significant needs with evidence to show that appropriate progress with SEND support, as outlined in our Graduated Response, has not been made, despite interventions and specialist advice, a statutory assessment may be requested.
The document linked below provides a set of minimum standards of all schools and teachers in every class for every child, known as Quality First Teaching, and any SEND provision which aims to complement Teacher Standards and the SEND Code of Practice across all our schools within Pathfinder.