Cheddar Valley SENCOs Cheddar Valley Schools and Contact Details

The Cheddar Valley Schools First School Academy Lorna Richardson 01934 732391 Information for Families recognise the benefits of working sch.018@educ..gov.uk together to develop systems for Cheddar First School meeting students’ needs. We are Maggie Wilson 01934 742546 New Special Educational working together to make transitions [email protected] between schools and sharing Draycott & Rodney Stoke First School Needs Code information easier. You will notice Joanne Dodd 01934 742052 [email protected] from September on each school’s Cheddar Valley 2014 website a new page that sets out the First School school’s ‘offer’ relating to SEN Nicola Hare 01278 760490 [email protected] support. Many aspects will be Lympsham First School common to all schools, but there will Katie Turner 01934 750473 be differences because of the age of [email protected] students and the particular schools’ Mark First School circumstances. The Cheddar Valley Joanna Collyer 01278 641262 Schools’ special needs offers then [email protected] feed into a much more general First School document created by the local Joanne Dodd 01934 843485 [email protected] authority called the ‘Local Offer’ Link. Weare First School Academy Cheddar Valley Schools Caroline Burgess 01934 732270 [email protected] Axbridge First School Academy We will inform you regarding specific Cheddar First School changes that affect your child at the First School Academy Draycott & Rodney Stoke First School Amanda Hirons 01934 712643 East Brent First School earliest opportunity in September. [email protected] Lympsham First School Thank you for your support whilst Fairlands Middle School Mark First School we implement the Government’s new Victoria Daintree 01934 743186 Shipham First School ideas. [email protected] Weare First School Academy

Hugh Sexey Middle School Wedmore First School Academy If you feel you would like more Jay Goodwin 01934 712211 Fairlands Middle School [email protected] Hugh Sexey Middle School information regarding the changes, The Kings of Wessex Academy please contact your school’s SENCO: The Kings of Wessex Academy Eleanor Roylance 01934 742608 [email protected] © The Kings of Wessex Academy Trust Ltd 2014

Special Educational Needs Definition of SEN and the SEN Support Code (SEN) 2014 Highlighted Needs Register A smaller number of students will The Government has introduced The Government’s definition of remain on the SEN register and all SEN reforms to schools that come SEN in the new SEN Code of these pupils will now be referred to into effect in September 2014 Practice is: as requiring ‘SEN support’. The (Children and Families Bill). The ‘A child has SEN if they have a interventions to meet their needs reforms aim to streamline support learning difficulty or disability which will be more specialised and will for children and young people aged calls for ‘special educational require the advice and supervision 0-25 and focus on delivering provision’ to be made for them and of the school’s Special Educational positive outcomes for them. they have significantly greater Needs Coordinator (SENCO). The difficulty in learning than the progress they make on these You will notice some changes, majority of others of the same age.’ interventions and in their education which will include the terms used to as a whole will be reviewed termly refer to children with special needs As a result you may find that with parents. and also to some of the records that students who were previously are kept in schools. Schools in the classed on the school’s SEN register Education, Health and Care Cheddar Valley are committed to as having ‘Special Educational Plans supporting the progress of all Needs’ will now be referred to by students and to working in Cheddar Valley Schools as being on Some students with very complex partnership with families. the Highlighted Needs Register. needs will have Education Health They may still take part in additional and Care Plans. This is the term for interventions, but these may not be the documents that will replace ‘special educational provision’. If statements. The government hopes this is the case for your child, please to encourage Health, Social Care be reassured that staff will still be and Local Authority agencies to required to ensure that lessons meet work together to meet the needs of their needs and that effective these students. More information ‘personalised’ provision is made for regarding these arrangements can be them. This is called ‘Quality First found on the Local Authority Teaching’ and is the most effective website. way for the vast majority of students to access their learning. © The Kings of Wessex Academy Trust Ltd 2014