Learning Support

SEND Curriculum Vision

Our lessons will be characterised by teachers and support staff who:

• Clearly have high expectations for all, based on a well-informed balance of challenge and support.
• Will be well informed to the needs of individual children, resourced appropriately, have high aspirations and a clear career path moving forward.
• Work hard to create high quality relationships, based on a good understanding of the individual needs of the student and a manifest interest in each student’s strengths and life ambition.
• Create a welcoming, purposeful and stimulating atmosphere where love of subject is communicated and inspirational ideas and examples are employed.
• Have an understanding of the relevance of the curriculum content and future life aspirations and the belief that the impossible is possible.
• Plan carefully sequenced and adapted work, based on the particular need and appropriate adjustments to allow access, leading to good progress informed by timely assessment and feedback, which effectively adds to students’ knowledge and understanding.
• Equip our students to become increasingly able to lead their own learning through:
• Utilising a deliberate and planned focus on how learning works;
• Maintain an approach to oracy where everyone’s voice is heard via the skilled use of questioning, discussion and collaboration; to ensure they are included in the whole school oracy strategy.
• Facilitating the creative formulation of students’ own questions, the development of their own solutions, and critiquing of their own performance; developing a skilled control of subject specific literacy and numeracy. We understand that our students with SEND may need different approaches.
• Show an awareness of the significance of gospel values in the presentation of content and in the interactions with the students. We want them to have an understanding of catholic social teaching by the way in which they interact with the wider world.

The lessons will be characterised by students with SEND who:

• Feel safe in a loving and secure environment.
• Have high expectations and aspirations for themselves and their future, arriving at lessons promptly and ready to learn.
• Look to form positive and respectful relationships with all their teachers, support staff and classmates.
• Are enthused to fully engage in the learning process in class, and have opportunities to develop their learning to enable them to demonstrate a creative, resourceful and resilient mind-set.
• Are confident and able to ask questions, seek clarification, share their views and respond to feedback effectively.
• Have a thirst for knowledge and an enthusiasm to understand how it can be applied in the real world and their life journey.
• All of our students with SEND leave with an opportunity to be happy in their lives, pursue their interests, able to keep themselves safe and exceed in their opportunities.
• Know they are just as valued and respected as their peers.