Herstmonceux
Special Educational Needs
Key Contacts
Our school SENCo is Kally Livingston (klivingston@sussexspires.co.uk)
Our SENCo Assistant is: Yvonne Jones
Our SEND Offer
Herstmonceux Church of England Primary is a fully inclusive school who ensures that all pupils achieve their potential personally, socially, emotionally, physically and educationally.
Our SEN information report lets you understand how we support pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.
We consult with pupils and their families on our local offer by meeting with parents regularly through SEN reviews, parents’ evenings and informal meetings, these can be prompted by parents, teachers or external professionals.
Children are identified as having a special educational need when their level of progress has become a cause for concern. Interventions are quickly put in place to cater for individual needs.
If your child is placed on the SEN register at school you will be contacted and a meeting arranged between you and your child’s class teacher. At this meeting your views about your child’s education, strengths, additional needs and what you feel works best for them will be discussed and included in the plan as will your child’s views. This is so you know exactly what support your child will be receiving in school and how long for, also how we expect this support to help them.
SEN Information
Herstmonceux SEN Information Report
ESCC Special Educational Needs in Schools Pros
The other people / agencies and teams providing services to children with a special educational need / disability in school include:
- Educational Psychologist
- ISEND
- TASS
- Speech and Language Team
- Virtual Schools Services
- Children’s Services
- Public Health (School nurse)
- CAMHs
- CLASS and CLASS+
- GPs
- Occupational Therapist
- Gypsy, Roma and Traveller provision
We will work in partnership with other education providers to ensure that pupils make a successful transition to the next stages of their learning, through careful and coordinated planning of the transition. We provide scheduled transition days to the local secondary school and further visits for vulnerable children, we liaise with staff, including form teachers and SENCOs of the transitional schools. Should children need to transfer to specialist provision; a transition plan will be put in place.
Behaviour and anti-bullying policies are regularly reviewed with a focus on how they affect pupils’ with special educational needs or disabilities.
Other useful documents such as our Special Educational Needs and Inclusion Policy are also available in the policies section of the website.
The school’s self-evaluation process will look at teaching and learning for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.
All school-related activities are evaluated in terms of their benefit to the learning and inclusion of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.
If you would like further information about what we offer here at Herstmonceux then please contact the Special Educational Needs Coordinator, Mrs K Livingston on: 01323 833148
Further Information and Support
CLASS+ works across East Sussex to support families/carers of Autistic children and young people. This includes those on the diagnosis pathway.
Amaze is a charity that gives information, advice and support to families with children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities in Brighton and Hove and East Sussex
The East Sussex Local Offer consists of:
- An information site, that outlines how different SEND processes work
- a SEND-specific directory listing local and online services.
As a federation we work within The Matrix as set out by East Sussex. The Matrix provides a shared understanding of how to identify Special Educational Needs as well as guidance on provision and resources to meet those needs.
Pupils with SEND are particularly well supported to achieve in mathematics. - Ofsted 2022
Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) benefit from additional reading interventions that are carefully matched to their needs. - Ofsted 2022