Special Educational Needs and Disability

This section of our website is to provide parents with key information about the inclusive practice within the Bythams Primary School. This includes areas such as special educational needs and how we support children with special educational needs within our school. We hope this information is useful, but please contact the class teacher, SENCo or Head teacher should you have any questions. 

At The Bythams Primary School we are ambitious for every child.  We want allour children to love learning and understand how to be a successful learner.  We deliver a broad and balanced curriculum, adapted to meet individual learning needs, and ensure that all children make progress.

We do this by:

  • creating an inclusive, positive, and supportive learning environment for all children, which removes barriers to learning and participation.
  • understanding the 4 broad areas of SEND need, including neurodiversity and that every child is unique.
  • ensuring all pupils receive high quality first teaching as universal provision, complemented where necessary by structured, targeted small group and/or specialist one-to-one interventions, as the 3 tiers of support for SEND.
  • ensuring interventions are carefully targeted through identification and assessment of need. 
  • delivering research-based, high quality SEND provision; remaining informed of new developments, thinking, approaches to SEND and learning including cognitive and metacognitive approaches.
  • building a holistic understanding of pupils, needs using the cycle of ‘assess, plan, do, review’ within the graduated approach to SEND which informs the next steps for learning.
  • seeking input from parents, other professionals, services, and the voice of the child.
  • working effectively with teaching assistants (TAs) so that they supplement, not replace, teaching from the classroom teacher.
  • ensuring all staff receive high quality SEND information and training so they have consistently high expectations of what all children can achieve and understand the implications of SEND on learning.   

The following documents provide more information in relation to our SEND provision and how school and home can support children.  If you have any questions or wish to discuss SEND provision for your child, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Mrs Emma Davies
SENCo

Useful Websites

General SEND

Lincolnshire SEND Local offer

Lincolnshire’s Local Offer – find everything you need to know about SEND in one place
The Local Offer brings together information for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities and their families.

Lincolnshire Parent Carer Forum (LPCF)

lincspcf.org.uk LCPF is recognised and supported by the Department for Education (DfE) under the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Code of Practice (2015). LPCF is specifically tasked with working alongside the Local Authority and Health to help ensure that the services that are planned, commissioned, delivered and monitored, meet the needs of children with SEND. They run a wide number and range of events and workshops to support parent/carers of children with SEND.

Council for Disabled Children

Council for Disabled Children work collaboratively, from policy into practice, to ensure the best outcomes for children and young people.

We are Contact

contact.org.uk, the charity for families with disabled children. We support families, bring families together and help families take action for others.

Kids:

www.kids.org.uk "Childhood should be a joyful time. But some children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities are defined by what they cannot do. That’s wrong.
Every child should have an equal opportunity to play, learn, grow and thrive.
We create life-changing opportunities by providing a wide range of support. Together, we’ll empower disabled children to stand up for their rights."

Scope

www.scope.org.uk "We are Scope. We campaign to transform attitudes to disability, tackle injustice and inspire action. We create opportunities and provide information and support that empowers"

Special Needs Jungle

www.specialneedsjungle.com Parent-led information, resources and informed opinion about children and young people 0-25

Sibs

www.sibs.org.uk Sibs for brothers and sisters of disabled children and adults.

ASD

Working Together Team

www.wtt.org.uk Is a National Autistic Society Advanced Status Accredited Service. They advocate best practice and provide specialist support to empower mainstream settings to ensure autistic children & young people thrive through collaborative working with families and professionals. They offer a wide range of resources, advice, training and support.

Spectrum

spectrum.org.uk Spectrum is a multi-award-winning, parent-led children’s charity. We provide eventssessions, and support for families of children with Autism, additional needs, learning difficulties, and disabilities. As an organisation, we are family-focused, advocates of collaboration, passionate about increasing inclusion and reducing isolation whilst supporting Special Education Needs & Disabilities (SEND).   

National Autistic Society

www.autism.org.uk "We are the Uks leading charity for autistic people and their families. Since 1962, we have been providing support, guidance and advice "

ADHD

The ADHD Foundation Neurodiversity Charity

www.adhdfoundation.org.uk/resources The ADHD Foundation Neurodiversity Charity supports parents and carers so they can understand and meet the needs of their child. With a range of webinars, courses, resources, and our screening service, we help families to know which interventions and adaptations are right for them.

Dyslexia

www.bdadyslexia.org.uk The British Dyslexia Association (BDA) has been the voice of dyslexic people since 1972. We are a membership organisation working to achieve a dyslexia-friendly society for all.

Hearing impairment

National Deaf Children’s Society

www.ndcs.org.uk "We are the National Deaf Children’s Society, the leading charity for deaf children. We’re here for every deaf child who needs us – no matter what their level or type of deafness or how they communicate."

RNID

rnid.org.uk "We are the national charity supporting more than 18 million people in the UK who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus."

The British Deaf Association (BDA)

bda.org.uk The BDA is the UK’s national Deaf-led membership organisation representing Deaf people who use British Sign Language (BSL) in the UK and Irish Sign Language (ISL) in Northern Ireland.

Deafblind UK

deafblind.org.uk "Welcome to Deafblind UK: If you or someone you know is living with sight and hearing loss, we’re here to help. We are here every step of the way to reassure, advise or just to be someone to turn to if there is no one else. We provide practical help, emotional support, help with technology, information, advice and even holidays to anyone who needs it."

Vision Impairment

RNIB

www.rnib.org.uk The advice you want, the support you need, the way you choose.

Guide Dogs

www.guidedogs.org.uk "Guide Dogs is one of the UK’s leading sight loss charities. Our expert staff, volunteers and life-changing guide dogs help people with sight loss live the life they choose. We couldn’t continue our vital work without your generous donations and our amazing volunteers."

Sense

www.sense.org.uk "We believe that every disabled person should have the opportunity to connect with others and be included in the world.
We offer personalised, creative and flexible support at every stage of life, no matter how complex someone’s disability.
"

Deafblind UK

deafblind.org.uk "Welcome to Deafblind UK
If you or someone you know is living with sight and hearing loss, we’re here to help. We are here every step of the way to reassure, advise or just to be someone to turn to if there is no one else. We provide practical help, emotional support, help with technology, information, advice and even holidays to anyone who needs it."

Who to talk to if your child has special educational needs

If you think your child may have special educational needs, contact the SENDCo who is Emma Davies<.

SEN Report

SEN Policy

SEND Local Offer
Lincolnshire County Council