SEND and Inclusion

At St. Chad’s, all our staff are passionate about improving educational and personal outcomes for all children, especially our vulnerable children or children with SEND.

We demonstrate commitment to this passion by ensuring our staff are well trained and regularly reviewing our practice, often in consultation with our pupils and parents, to promote continuous improvement. Training is updated every few years in a cyclical fashion to ensure our newest members of staff can also benefit from high quality professional development.

Dependent upon their role and starting date in school, our staff have received a range of training around specific needs including:

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• Foetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Making Sense of Autism – Tier 1 training
• Good Autism Practice – Tier 2 training
• Leading Good Autism Practice – Tier 3 (Jackie Matthews, Inclusion Leader)
• Supporting children with ADHD
• Trauma and Attachment Needs
• The Thrive Approach
• Dyslexia and Creating a Dyslexia Friendly Classroom
• Deaf and Hearing Impairments
• Down’s Syndrome
• Developmental Language Disorder

Our Inclusion Leader is Miss Jackie Matthews, who has overall responsibility for co-ordinating the inclusive provision across school.We love to hear from our school community about what we are doing well, as well as any suggestions you have on how we can improve. If you have any comments or feedback about the inclusive practice in school, please contact Miss Jackie Matthews via the designated email address:

sc-senco@stchadsprimary.net

Family information

Raising and supporting your child with SEND will be full of joy and hugely rewarding but it can also be hard and isolating at times.Please know you are not alone and any member of staff in school will be happy to talk to you about your child’s needs or offer support where it is requested.

You may find some of the following services available in Leeds, useful, too.

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