SEN & Disability

Heathmere is an inclusive school. Our vision is that every child with SEND will receive the right provision to achieve their full potential. The school encourages a strong focus on high aspirations and improves outcomes for children with SEND, enabling them to succeed in their education.

At Heathmere Primary School, every teacher is a teacher of every child, including those with special educational needs and disabilities.   

All staff and governors at Heathmere Primary School will strive to:

•  Ensure that everyone is treated with respect and dignity.
•  Each person in the school will be given fair and equal opportunities to develop their full potential regardless of their gender, ethnicity, cultural and religious background, sexuality, disability or special educational needs and ability.
• Heathmere Primary School will not tolerate discrimination or harassment or any action or conduct that contravenes the Equality Act 2010 and any behaviours will be challenged that compromises this commitment

Heathmere’s approach to inclusion

Intent

• To provide high-quality provision  and teaching to meet the needs of children and young people with SEND.
• The participation of children, their parents in decision-making.
• The early identification of needs and the implementation of interventions which are research based.
• Collaboration between education, health and social care services to provide support

A focus on inclusive practice and removing barriers to learning and successful preparation for adulthood, building an ongoing, holistic understanding of our pupils and their needs

Implementation

Children with SEND will:

• Be included in all aspects of the day
• Be provided with quality first teaching
• Be respected and their contributions valued and acknowledged
• Be included in extra-curricular activities, with support, when needed
• Be provided with adaptive learning to provide effective support to enable them to reach their full potential

To ensure consistency across the school, we use assessment and monitoring as a strategic tool to help learners embed and use knowledge fluently; to check children’s understanding and inform teachers of the pupils’ next steps.

Impact

To ensure our children with SEND make good progress, in line with national outcomes and their starting points, class teachers monitor pupils' progress as part of our half-termly and end-of-year assessment procedures, informing us of our provision’s successes. 

• learning plans 3 x a year
• pupil progress meetings
• learning walks
• books looks
• pupil’s voice
• tracking the impact of interventions.​

The school’s accessibility plan paragraph 3 of schedule 10 of the Equality Act 2010 provides information on how the school improves the physical environment of the school to increase the extent disabled pupils can take advantage of education, facilities and services offered by the school.

SEND Information Report

The Heathmere SEND Information Report outlines how the needs of children with special educational needs are met at Heathmere.

More information about the Local Offer of services and support for children and young people with special needs and disabilities in Wandsworth can be found on the Family Information Service website.

Our SENCO is Mrs Nana Kennedy. You can contact her via the school office office@heathmere.wandsworth.sch.uk.