Audley Infant School Vision for Pupils with Special Educational Needs

At Audley Infant School, we strive to support all children to enable them to achieve at school. We have high expectations for all children and see all of our children as ‘unique’ individuals, and endeavour to enable each child to achieve their full potential, whatever their ability or specific needs, by providing equal opportunities for all within our school. In order to do this, many steps are taken to support them through their learning journey.

We aim to achieve this through the removal of barriers to learning and participation. Our curriculum promotes the development of the whole child as a confident, resourceful and independent learner who is able to face the future with resilience and ingenuity.

All pupils in school receive quality first teaching. This means that a range of teaching and learning styles are used and that appropriate learning objectives are set for all children, with a curriculum matched to their needs. All our classes are supported by Teaching Assistants, and pupils are also offered additional small group work or catch up programmes where needed. Through appropriate curricular provision, we respect and acknowledge that children:

1. Have different educational and behavioural needs and aspirations

2. Require different strategies for learning and participation

3. Acquire, assimilate and communicate information at different rates

4. Need a range of different teaching approaches and experiences

We want all children to feel that they are fully included and a valued member of our school community.

Audley Infant School is committed to working in partnership with Parents and Carers, external agencies, and Blackburn with Darwen Local Authority to ensure the best outcomes for our children identified with special educational needs.

Code of Practice

At Audley Infant School, we follow the SEN Code of Practice. The Code provides a model that schools have to regard when supporting children with special educational needs.

This provides for help to be offered at two levels: School Provision and

EHCP-(Educational Health Care Plan).

What is a Local Offer?

A Local Offer gives children and young people (and their families) with special educational needs or disabilities, information about what support services the local authority think will be available in their local area.

Blackburn with Darwen’s Local Offer

Blackburn with Darwen's Local Offer is an online resource that details services, support and guidance available to children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) aged 0-25 and their families.

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Blackburn with Darwen Parents in Partnership

Afasic - Voice for Life

National Autistic Society

Education, Health and Care plans

An Education, Health and Care plan (EHC plan) is a legal document which describes a child or young person’s special educational needs, the support they need, and the outcomes they would like to achieve.

The special educational provision described in an EHC plan must be provided by the child or young person’s local authority (LA). This means an EHC plan can give a child or young person extra educational support. It can also give parents and young people more choice about which school or other setting the child or young person can attend.

An EHC plan can only be issued after a child or young person has gone through the process of an Education, Health and Care needs assessment.

Follow the links below for more information on how to ask for an EHC plan, how to change an existing EHC plan, and how to challenge a decision by the LA which you disagree with.

If you already have an EHC plan but the provision set out in it is not being made, you will need to make a complaint against your LA.

Blackburn with Darwen EHCP Guidance 

Frequently Asked Questions

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What are the different types of support available for children with SEND at Audley Infant School?

How Does Audley Infant School know if your child needs extra help?

How can I find out about how well my child is doing?

Who are the best people to talk to in Audley Infant School about my child's difficulties with learning/Special Educational Needs or disability (SEND)?

Who are the other people providing services to children with SEND in this school?

How will the school prepare and support my child when moving to a new school or class?

BwD Parent Partnership

DfES-SEN (click the title for more information)

A centre for SEN, aiming to provide a wide range of advice and materials for teachers, parents and others interested in working with children with special educational needs.

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Communication Trust (click the title for more information)

The Communication Trust (TCT) supports parents and the children's workforce to meet the speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) of all children.  It has information on the website to raise awareness, promote good practice and support anyone concerned with a childs speech and language development.

Afasic (click the title for more information)

A parent-led organisation that helps children and young people with speech and language impairments and their families.

Provides information for parents and professionals and produces a range of publications.

RNIB (click the title for more information)

Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) helps blind and partially sighted people in the UK.

RNID (click the title for more information)

The Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) helps deaf and hard-of-hearing people in the UK.

SEN Teacher (click the title for more information)

Resources, freeware downloads, links and documents for those involved in the education of pupils with learning difficulties, autism and other special educational needs. Some of the materials may also be of use to teachers and parents of primary aged children.

Autism

Watching Pablo together can be a useful starting point for talking to your child about how their own friends or relatives with ASD might see the world. Play Pablo's Art World Adventure together to find out more about each of the characters.

Mr Tumble

Mr Tumble sings and plays the piano, and in Something Special, which you can watch on CBeebies or BBC IPlayer, uses the sign language Makaton to communicate with viewers with special needs and has been credited with encouraging these children to speak for the very first time.