Special Educational Needs

Bar Hill Primary School is committed and passionate about ensuring ‘Achievement for All’, through setting high aspirations and providing a high quality teaching and learning environment, as a priority for all. However, we acknowledge that some children will require additional support, for part or all of their time at our academy.

Ms Kate Loombe is our SENCO and a member of the Senior leadership team. She works with families, all staff, academy councillors and pupils to ensure that all pupils with special educational needs and disabilities have their needs met. Ms Loombe also has wider support from the Trust.

Ms Loombe can be contacted through the school office on 01954 273305 or office@barhillprimary.org

We identify and offer specific support for all of our SEND children at the level which helps them to make progress from their starting points. We use a variety of teaching styles and differentiation, to ensure that all children can access learning in the classroom.

Where children have individual plans they are delivered in a way to ensure they understand the relevance and purpose of learning activities and experience levels of progress that bring feelings of success and achievement.

Our School offer is our SEND information report. It provides parents with full details of all of the services and support available at Bar Hill Primary to meet the needs of our pupils with SEND.

Information about the Cambridgeshire Local Offer can be found on the link below:-

Cambridgeshire Local offer link

SENDIASS Contact details

SEND Information, Advice and Support (SENDIASS) 
Cambridgeshire County Council, ALC2630, New Shire Hall, Emery Crescent, Enterprise Campus, Alconbury Weald, Huntingdon, PE28 4YE
Email – sendiass@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Confidential helpline open during term times: 01223 699 214

Accessibility

Our school aims to be an inclusive school; to make all our children feel welcome and happy. Every child is different and we view those differences as an opportunity for adults and children alike to learn more about themselves.

If your child is recognised as having a special educational need or disability, he or she will be treated no less favourably than other applicants for admission. We make reasonable adjustments to ensure that pupils with disabilities are not placed at a disadvantage and we will know that we have succeeded when pupils are participating fully in school life. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that no one is treated differently without lawful justification.

In order to achieve an effective partnership between home and school we anticipate that parents will want to:

• Inform the school, at the earliest opportunity, if their child has a special educational need or disability and the exact nature of that need.
• Provide the information the school needs to plan effectively for the child to be a full member of the school community.
• Acknowledge that when deciding whether an adjustment is reasonable, one of the factors the Headteacher must consider is the effect of the proposed change on all members of the school community.
• Recognise the importance of the school and home working in partnership.