student support

The Student Support Faculty exists to support all students across the Primary and Secondary Schools, especially those who have different learning styles and requirements. We see all students as “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139v14) and therefore seek to develop their individual strengths and gifts.

ETHOS

In the Student Support faculty we believe that all students have a positive contribution to make to their own learning experience. We prefer to use the term “learning difference” rather than “difficulty” or “disability”. To receive support is to gain an opportunity; to use our creative abilities to discover ways to learn effectively, when standard classroom methods are perhaps not working so well. Our students have so much to offer, we aim to facilitate their success.

FACULTY MEMBERS

  • Head of Faculty – full time specialist teacher

  • Primary – full time specialist teacher

  • Full time Teaching Assistants (TA) – one in each primary class and one for secondary support.

  • Short-term volunteers

ASSESSMENT

Students who are referred to the faculty will have an Individualised Education Plan (IEP). The plan will be developed in partnership with the student support specialists, subject teachers and parents.

Students who are referred with apparent specific learning difficulties (SpLD) are offered an internationally recognised, standardised, diagnostic assessment to inform the (IEP).

ACCESS

Currently, due to limitations of site and staffing, we are not able to accommodate students with either physical or severe learning disabilities.