Who is the school’s Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENDCo)?
| Mrs Mackay is the school SENDCo. Her role requires her to ensure provision is made for the care, wellbeing and progress of children with additional needs.
Contact Details Phone: 01904 806222 We work with many outside agencies to ensure that Special Educational Needs are being met. These include: Educational Psychologists, Specialist Teaching Teams including Autism, Deaf Hearing Support,Physical Needs etc., Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). Our Special Educational Needs and Disability Governor is Anna Datta. |
Ordinary Available Provision and Graduated Response
Most children with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) will have their needs met effectively within the mainstream setting. Where a child or young person is identified as having SEND, schools will take action to remove barriers to learning and put effective provision in place. Schools’ professional judgement will dictate any reasonable adjustments that are made to meet need. These actions should be reviewed and refined through the cycle of Assess, Plan, Do, Review. We call this ‘The Graduated Response’.
The needs of the child or young person may change over time and provision should reflect this.
Where a child has complex, long term and significant needs with evidence to show that appropriate progress with SEND support, as outlined in our Graduated Response, has not been made, despite interventions and specialist advice, a statutory assessment may be requested.
The document linked below provides a set of minimum standards of all schools and teachers in every class for every child, known as Quality First Teaching, and any SEND provision which aims to complement Teacher Standards and the SEND Code of Practice across all our schools within Pathfinder.
What should I do if I think my child might have special educational needs?
The class teacher is the initial point of contact for responding to parental concerns. A meeting should be made with the class teacher where we will listen to your concerns. We will listen to your own parent/carer experience and observations of how your child is outside of school. In conjunction with our school views and observations, we can help build a better picture.
We can arrange for your child to be assessed either by ourselves, external partners who work with the school or by referral to external agencies who can provide specialist assessment or guidance.
We will support you throughout this process and review provision regularly to find out what works best for the child.
Documents and links
Our Inclusion Policy and SEND Report can be viewed on our policy page here.
York SEND Local Offer
Website: yorksend.org
Email: yorklocalofferSEND@york.gov.uk
Pathfinder – SEND – Ordinary Available Provision and Graduated Response