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Whole school, universal, high quality teaching
Assessment and Early Identification
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High Quality Teaching (Curriculum and Adaptations)
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Pastoral (Behaviour and Relationships)
Planning for a learner’s whole life
Staff Skills and Training
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A regular cycle of the graduated approach (Assess, Plan, Do, Review) is used to ensure that learners with SEND are making progress.
Decision making involves effective partnership with children, young people, and parents/carers.
Expertise is in place to manage examination arrangements (access arrangements).
Learners are prepared for adulthood in all stages of learning
Learners with SEND are included in all aspects of school life including school trips, extra-curricular clubs.
Our leaders can evidence that learners with SEND make good or excellent progress, relative to their starting point across a wide range of subjects at the end of each key stage.
Our progress for learners with SEND across year groups in a wide range of subjects is consistently strong and work scrutiny indicates that they achieve well.
Our suspensions and exclusions rate for learners with SEND are monitored regularly. We ensure that learner needs are being met and reflect/adjust on appropriate provision. There are no informal or unofficial exclusions.
Practitioners have a secure understanding of how a range of factors can inhibit learners’ ability to learn and how best to overcome them.
Practitioners make adaptations and use evidence-based strategies known to be effective for all learners.
Routine and life transitions are planned for.
Settings take a holistic approach to early identification of need and assessment.
Staff are provided with ongoing continuing professional development (CPD) to enable them to effectively support learners with a range of needs.
Staff collaborate and have effective links with relevant outside agencies and specialists.
Support staff are effectively deployed to add value to what teachers do.
Teachers are responsible and accountable for the progress and development of learners in their class(including where learners access support from teaching assistants or specialist staff).
The emotional environment promotes good wellbeing for all.
The physical environment meets the needs of learners.
Value is placed on learner and parent voice; impacts on practice and provision and celebrates achievement.
We ensure our safeguarding procedures ensure all learners (including learners with SEND) are kept safe.
We regularly monitor the attendance of learners with SEND and take actions to improve it.
We regularly monitor types and rates of patterns of bullying to help identify barriers to learning.
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Area of need interventions
Cognition and Learning
Communication & Interaction
Sensory and / or physical
Social, emotional, and mental health
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Conditions - Attention Deficit Disorder
Conditions - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Emotional needs - Attachment
Executive function
Hearing impairment
Maths
Multisensory impairment / deafblind
Physical conditions - Neuro-muscular dystrophies
Reading
SLC Developmental language delay
SLC Difficulties with speech sound production
SLC Difficulties with understanding language
SLC Difficulties with using language to express themselves
Social Communication & interaction differences (including Autism)
SpLD
Underlying mental health difficulties - Anxiety
Underlying mental health difficulties - Depression
Visual impairment
Writing
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Supporting / Developing
Anxiety or depression
Behavioral challenges
Challenges in processing information
Challenges with social interactions
Comprehension: learner has difficulties with understanding and interpreting texts.
Decoding; learner reads slowly and finds reading difficult and tiring
Delayed language development
Difficulty in expressing needs or ideas
Difficulty managing emotions
Difficulty with reading, writing, or mathematics
Medical conditions that impact learning
Memory and attention difficulties
Physical disabilities
Speech and language difficulties
Visual or hearing impairments
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<p>The 2024 DfE ‘working together to improve school attendance’ statutory guidance specifies that all schools should have a clear attendance policy which all leaders, staff, pupils, and parents understand.<br>This checklist and guidance will allow school leaders to write and review their school’s attendance policy in line with the statutory guidance.<br>This guidance document has been developed to support schools in creating their own attendance policy. Further advice can be sought by contacting schoolattendanceservice@leeds.gov.uk</p>
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