The vision of the four Pioneer Federation schools (St Mary the Virgin, Chiddingly Primary, Park Mead and East Hoathly Primary and Nursery) is ‘Achievement for All, Learning Together, Learning for Life’ and this radiates through our policy for children with special educational needs and disabilities.
The Children and Families Act 2014 says that all maintained schools must publish a Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Information Report every year. This can be found below.
In the report, we explain how we meet our duties towards pupils with special educational needs and disabilities. This report is also the information we provide to the East Sussex local offer which shows the support that is available for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities in East Sussex: localoffer.eastsussex.gov.uk
The federation schools are mainstream primaries admitting pupils from age 4 -11. East Hoathly also has a Nursery. We are inclusive schools – that means we provide for children with all types of special educational need. Within the Pioneer Federation, it is fully recognised that all class teachers are the teachers of children with Special Educational Needs and disabilities (SEND).
The kinds of SEND that are provided for are categorised into four broad areas of need:
- communication and interaction, including speech and language difficulties and autism
- cognition and learning, including developmental delay, and specific difficulties such as dyslexia and dyscalculia
- social, emotional and mental health difficulties including difficulties with behaviour, attention deficit disorder ADD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD, attachment disorder or anxiety
- sensory and/or physical needs including visual or hearing impairment, dyspraxia, cerebral palsy and other physical or medical conditions which affect a child’s learning
The report below includes details of the processes in place to identify children with SEND and for assessing their needs and required provision.
Emotional Regulation (Zones of Regulation)
Developing children’s emotional development is a really important part of maintaining good mental health and wellbeing. The Pioneer Federation uses the Zones of Regulation programme as a basis for our teaching of strategies to support developing emotional regulation and creating a toolkit of strategies to manage our ever changing emotions. This encourages children to become more self -aware and therefore developing independence and knowledge.
With our younger children we use ‘mood monsters’ to make early links with the colours of the zones system.
Each classroom has display to support emotional regulation. These are adapted according the age and development of each class cohort.
Strategies are taught at various times during the year at a whole class level and revisited on a daily basis. Where needed additional small group or individual work can take place to explore and develop a particular skill or strategy.
More information about the Zones of Regulation can be found here: www.zonesofregulation.com
