The information on this page details how we support children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities at Echelford. This includes information about how the school identifies needs and the additional or different provision the school offers to enable these children to make progress.

Where possible we aim to meet the needs of all the children through the everyday High Quality teaching that all children have access to. Our aim is to enable the children to become independent, confident learners and we will provide extra support to facilitate this when required.

Alongside our High Quality Teaching, we use Ordinarily Available Provision to identify appropriate approaches and adjustments to support children. 

A parent/carer guide to Ordinarily Available Provision can be found here.  

When adjustments to provision or additional interventions are required to enable your child to make progress, it is planned for, carried out and reviewed regularly through our termly Assess, Plan, Do, Review cycle and detailed within our Provision Maps.  If the additional support is not having the desired impact, the support will be adjusted or changed. 

Advice and guidance from a range of professionals, such as Spech and Language therapists, Specialist Teachers in Inclusive Practice, Outreach workers from Specialist schools, Educational Psychologists and Occupational Therapists, may be requested and fed into a child’s provision.

We have a Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) register in school which is used to ensure children who require additional or different support are monitored particularly carefully. This is simply a system we use to raise the profile of a child and their particular needs, in addition to ensuring these are met as early as possible.  

Education, Health and Care Plans

An EHC plan is a legal document that describes the child or young person's special educational, health and social care needs, and describes what support they will be given to meet those needs.

Where a child continues to not make progress or access the curriculum with additional support in place over time, it may be necessary to request an EHC Needs Assessment.