SEND Governor – Stacey Gilham
SENDCo – Emma Fawcett
SEND
SEN Support
SEND Stages at HPA
SEND Intent
At Holbeach Primary Academy we pride ourselves delivering High Quality Teaching which supports the early identification of pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. At HPA we look to extend what is already available to pupils and to further develop an inclusive environment. Early involvement helps to identify the pupils core area of need which provides the foundation to plan a bespoke provision to build up on. This then allows children to have high aspirations and provides them with the scaffolding that they need to achieve.
SEND Implementation
Our SEND information report outlines how the intent is delivered within school. The information report can be found below alongside the SEND Policy. These documents outline what how we support children to achieve their aspirations.
We deliver the five areas to further support children to reach these goals, which:
1. Create a positive and supportive environment for all pupils without exception.
2. Build an ongoing, holistic understanding of your pupils and their needs.
3. Ensure all pupils have access to high quality teaching.
4. Complement high quality teaching with carefully selected small-group and one-to-one interventions.
5. Work effectively with teaching assistants.
SEN Policy and SEN Information Report
Embedding Inclusion
At HPA and HBA we strive towards inclusion everyday. This image shows the different models of supporting pupils requiring SEN Support. We work strongly towards the inclusive model, making sure pupils reach not only their educational potential but develop independence and social skills at the same rate.
Lincolnshire Family Services Directory & Local Offer
Lincolnshire are very lucky to have a huge Family Service Directory called their local offer. This is a data base of organisations and businesses who can support children and young people with SEND or help families of those on the pathway. Whether it is an Autism friendly hairdresser or a local activity groups, the Family Services Directory will have all of the information.
The Local Offer can be found on the link below. If you are having trouble accessing this please contact a member of the SEN Team at HPA.
Lincolnshire Parent and Carer Forum (LPCF)
This service works for all parents and carers of children with additional needs. This is a charity organisation who can offer impartial advice. They plan a range of events and training sessions for parents.
To find out the latest information and upcoming events follow the link to the LPCF website
Liaise Information
Liaise is a service that can support you if your child has an EHCP. They are able to offer advice and be an avicate for you. The video explains more about what they are able to do.
Partnership for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools (PINS)
Lincolnshire is taking part in a national programme called Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools (PINS), which is designed to improve outcomes for neurodiverse pupils with special educational needs and disability (SEND). As part of this Holbeach Primary Academy will be undertaking various training packages and events to further support how we meet the needs of all.
Neurodiversity describes the idea that people experience and interact with the world around them in many different ways, and there is no one “right” way of thinking, learning, and behaving. It is often used in the context of autism spectrum disorder, as well as other neurological or developmental conditions such as ADHD or learning disabilities.
The main objective of the PINS programme is to strengthen the knowledge and skills within mainstream schools to help them better support neurodiverse pupils. This will mean better support for pupils without a diagnosis and less reliance on specialist resources.
In Lincolnshire, the programme shall be led by the autism and learning difficulties service’s Working Together Team in partnership with Lincolnshire Parent Carer Forum, whose role is to support, and strengthen where needed, parent and carer relationships in schools.
The team shall work with a maximum of 40 mainstream primary schools, both maintained and academies, with each school receiving the equivalent of five days of support by March 2025. Schools invited to take part in this programme shall be contacted directly.
A self-assessment tool will allow each school to identify their priority areas for support. Schools shall decide on the type, length and content of the assistance required using a nationally-agreed menu of support.
The team will regularly report back to national colleagues on progress and outcomes, helping them to assess the impact the programme is having.
The PINS programme will run from April 2024 to March 2025 and is funded by the Department for Education, supported by the Department for Health and Social Care and NHS England.
For any questions relating to this communication please email the Integrated Commissioning Programme Manager.
Garden room resource library
As part of the PINS project we have been gifted a few new resources. These have been put together to create a neurodiverse library to help children to understand their own diversities but also to support inclusion. At HPA we are using zones of regulation within the Garden room, these areas have been re-established to provide a calm environment for any children who require re-regulation or a space for co-regulation.
Working Together Team
The working together team were previously the Autism Outreach service but they are now supporting wider needs under the neurodiversity umbrella.
Social, Emotional & Mental Health
The area of social, emotional and mental health needs (SEMH) includes:
- Social and emotional functioning
- Wellbeing
- The ability to regulate self and behaviour
- Mental health difficulties
The documents below can help to support you to understand this area of SEN Support and give you some ideas to help.
Spotting Signs of Anxiety
Sensory and Physical
This area of SEN Support includes:
- Hearing or sight impairements
- Physical disabilities
- Medical conditions affecting a certain area of the body
- Sensory Processing difficulties
The websites below could help support with this area of SEN support.
Useful Websites
Useful links for Hearing and Sight impairments – This website will direct you to a range of websites to offer further support
Sense – Charity organisation
Charity organisation
Communication and Interaction
Communication and Interaction Includes:
- Receptive Language
- Difficulty in understanding and processing language
- Expressive Language
- Difficulty with the use of spoken language or nonverbal communication
- Pragmatic/social communication
- Difficulty with social interaction, social cognition, and pragmatics.
- Speech sound difficulty
- Difficulty with phonological skills or articulation skills. The difficulty may not be restricted to one area and may be demonstrated at different levels.
- Autism and Autistic Spectrum Disorders are catagorised within this area of SEN SUpport.
What is autism?
Cognition and Learning
This area of SEN Support can include difficulty in curriculum-realted areas such as:
- reading, writing and spelling
- numerosity
- comprehension
- processing difficulties such as sequencing, inference, coherence and elaboration
- working memory
- short term verbal memory
- other types of executive function difficulties
- Dyslexia and dyscalculia come into this area of SEN Support.
Dyscalculia
How we learn…
