Our Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Co-ordinator (SENDCo) is Mr Blaylock and he can be contacted by email: senco@congletonhigh.com or by telephone via the main School Office: 01260 730123.
All teachers at Congleton High School are teachers of all students and that includes students with a special educational need or disability. All work is appropriately differentiated to meet the needs of students in every lesson. Subject teachers make assessments of student progress and attainment three times a year. Where quality first teaching is not sufficient to secure progress for a student, a department-based intervention programme will be offered. This may be small group withdrawal for extra tuition or active support in school with behaviour, homework tasks and timekeeping.
Students who have less than expected progress in maths or literacy may be offered small group intervention programmes for a fixed period. Others may be taught in a small set (less than 12 students) for the academic year. Older students may have one option block to use for extra support in maths or literacy. Some choose to follow the ASDAN programme in Year 10 and 11, allowing for small group work with a Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) and individualised learning of life skills and social skills.
Our SENDCo, with the support of a team of Teaching Assistants, can offer short-term, structured interventions for literacy and/or social interaction skills, as well as offering subject-based support. A suite of rooms, known in school as ‘XL’, is available to SEN support staff for teaching these interventions and also provides a safe haven for students at break and lunchtime should they need it.
Some students with SEN will need ongoing support with learning, throughout their school life. These children will fall under the heading of ‘SEN Support’ and will be kept on a register in school so that all teaching staff are aware of their needs. Appropriate outside agencies will be asked to assist school in providing programmes of support and in carrying out further assessments as needed.
Students requiring additional support will have the costs of the first part of that support met by the school’s own resources. Only when a severe difficulty is indicated would any top-up funding be provided by the Local Authority. This would be managed through an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP), replacing the previous system of statements and statutory assessment.
The SEN Code of Practice requires the school to publish an SEN Report (Congleton High School Special Educational Needs and Disability Report). This gives more detail about what parents and carers can expect from our school. You can download this report, along with our SEN Policy, using the link below.
Further information can also be found on the Cheshire East Council Livewell site here and also within the CEIAS document.
Please note, you can find helpful information about other organisations who can help when school is closed, along with details of parent/carer support workshops etc. in the Student Welfare pages of this website. Click here to be redirected or navigate via either the Student or Parent Carer area.
SEND Documents
The Cheshire East Local Offer for SEND can be found at www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/localoffer and the Cheshire East SEND Toolkit can be found here
Students starting with Congleton High in September can find out more about the SEND team, facilities and the Transition Process here.
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