SEND

At Wayfield Primary School, we embrace the fact that every child is unique and welcome everybody into our community. The staff, governors, pupils and parents and carers work together to make school a happy place where every pupil is supported to fulfil their potential in their academic, emotional, social and physical development. As an inclusive community, we are committed to developing inclusive cultures, policies and practices actively seeking to remove the barriers to learning and participation that can hinder individual pupils. We are committed to high achievement for all and to supporting the diverse range of special needs that children may experience either short term or long term, encouraging pupils and families in making the very best of every opportunity available to them.

The SENCO: Mrs Kim Thomas

Responsible for:

• Developing and reviewing the school’s SEND policy

• Co-ordinating all the support for children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND)

• Providing specialist support for teachers and support staff in the school, so that they can help children with SEND in the school to achieve the best progress possible

• Ensuring that parents and carers are involved in supporting their child’s learning, kept informed about the support their child is getting and involved in reviewing how they are doing

• Liaising with all the other people who may be coming in to school to help support learning, e.g. Speech and Language Therapy, Educational Psychologist

• Updating the school’s SEND register (a system for ensuring that all the SEND needs of pupils in school are known) and making sure that records of progress and needs are kept

The SEN Governor:

Responsible for:

• Making sure that the necessary support is given for all children with SEND who attend the school

You can contact Mrs Thomas via the office email at: office@wayfield.medway.sch.uk