How will we support your child with identified special needs starting at school?

If your child has been allocated a place in our Foundation Stage 2 (Reception) class via the local authority and they have a special educational need and/ or disability, please contact us as soon as you receive the offer as we may not have details of their needs at this stage.
We will first invite you to visit the school with your child to have a look around and speak to staff.
If other professionals are involved, a Team Around the Child (TAC) meeting will be held to discuss your child’s needs, share strategies used, and ensure provision is put in place before your child starts.
Your child’s key person may make a home visit and also visit your child if they are attending another provision; this will automatically happen if your child is starting in the Nursery.
We may suggest adaptations to the settling in period to help your child to settle more easily but these will be agreed with you at the TAC meeting.
If they have not already visited, your child will be invited into school in advance of starting to meet the staff they will be working with and their peer group.
The class teacher will arrange an early meeting with you to review your child’s learning, following the settling in period.
The staff will then hold regular meetings in school to monitor the progress of your child and invite you into school at least once a term to review this with you.