Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

Senior School pupils in Forest School

Senior School Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

In the Senior School, our SEND team function at the heart of the School, located in the courtyard with an open-door policy to support students and staff.

Our SEND provision across the whole school is constantly being reviewed to ensure we can offer a good level of excellent provision for students with SEND. Our SEND team are incredibly friendly, helpful, and hardworking and ensure excellent parent communication throughout SEND provision being offered.

A Graduated Approach to SEND Support

Throughout our entire SEND provision, we take a graduated approach to SEND support. This follows a continuous four-step process:

1 2 3 4
Assess
Plan
Do
Review

The basis of this framework starts with inclusive high-quality teaching. In the St Chris Senior School School, Company Advisers are the primary point of contact for students and parents. They build outstanding working relationships with our students in their Company groups, a form group comprising Senior School students from across the school. Students build a very supportive relationship with their Company Adviser and see them every morning during Company Time. Our Company Advisers are best placed to recognise socioeconomic changes in our students, and teachers and Heads of Years oversee academic progress.

Company Advisers and Heads of Years have excellent communication channels and work closely together, enabling teachers and staff members to feedback between each other and alert the SEND team where necessary. Our student-teacher ratio in our small class sizes means that students have access to individualised support in our standard classroom setting.

Senior School pupil in ceramics class at St Chris

The Function of the SEND Team

The SEND team works closely with the Pastoral Leads in both the Senior and Junior School to ensure all students’ needs are met, and to ensure continuity of care.

The focus of the Senior School SEND Team is on enabling students at St Chris to develop the skills sets needed for the wider world beyond school alongside their individual next academic steps. The team work on an individual basis and benchmark progress over achievement levels. The work started in the Junior School continues fluidly into the Senior School through the Senior School transition day and across-school communications.

Student Assessments

Each student continues to be individually assessed, and support is put in place to mitigate any potential barriers ensuring equity for all learners. This extra level of provision may take the form of in-class support, small group immersion programmes for short periods of time, and 1-1 focused sessions where deemed necessary.

Senior School pupils in class at St Chris

SEND provision is directed by subject teacher knowledge, academic tracking and progress assessments, and the in-depth pastoral knowledge of the Company Adviser.

Kirsten Rockey, the Senior School SENCO, leads the team on all day-to-day matters, and is your first port of call for any enquiries. Kirsten can be contacted via the Individual needs email.

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