Teaching & Learning

Inclusion

At the Royal Alexandra and Albert School, we aim to support students to thrive and achieve regardless of their starting point or the challenges they may face. Our Achievement, Standards and Inclusion team lead the work of the school in achieving this goal.

Our inclusion provision focuses on supporting students who experience barriers to learning that exist outside of, or in conjunction with, SEND. This includes a range of areas such as family circumstances or mental health issues, and our approach is based on the principles of compassion, curiosity and partnership. We believe that every interaction is an intervention.

Our Director of Inclusion is the Senior Mental Health Lead for the school and works to influence whole school policy and practice. Our mental health and wellbeing strategy exists to place mental health and wellbeing at the core of everything we do, and to ensure that we provide an environment where everyone feels valued and included. When difficulties do arise, we aim to ensure that support is timely and effective.

The Lead for Disadvantaged Pupils also works within the Achievement, Standards and Inclusion Team with the goal of supporting and meeting the needs of these students.

Pupil Premium

Our Pupil Premium strategy identifies the additional challenges that some students face during their education and is a plan of action to overcome these barriers, ensuring that they can thrive and achieve.

The Pupil Premium report can be found on our Policies page.

SEND

The Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Department at the Royal Alexandra and Albert School aims to identify and overcome potential barriers to learning and meet the needs of all students with SEND within the school setting. Our SEND provision takes into account the full scope of student support, which begins with the delivery of high quality, whole class teaching. We work closely in partnership with the Achievement Standards and Inclusion Team and class teachers to ensure effective and targeted support. We closely follow the graduated approach.

https://www.surreylocaloffer.org.uk/practitioners/resources/ordinarily-available-provision#panel-6

We value the working relationship with school, home and external agencies in order to ensure all students with SEND can thrive. Students with SEND are supported in a range of different ways, which are outlined in our SEND policy And SEN information.
If you feel your child may have a SEND need you may find this website useful.

https://www.surreylocaloffer.org.uk/parents-and-carers/what-is-send

Contact Details

Ms L Willighan – SENDCO
send@gatton-park.org.uk
Mrs L De Tarnowsky – SENDCO Administrator
send@gatton-park.org.uk

Policies

All SEN policies and reports can be found here.