Special Educational Needs & Inclusion
At Kells Lane Primary School, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where every child feels valued, supported and able to thrive. We believe that children learn best when their emotional wellbeing is nurtured alongside their academic development, and we take a whole-school approach to supporting children’s social and emotional needs.
We provide daily THRIVE sessions within classes for all children, helping them to develop emotional resilience, build positive relationships and engage successfully with their learning. Early identification of emotional development needs is central to our approach, as this helps to build resilience and reduce the risk of future mental health difficulties.
For some children, additional support may be needed. Where a specific need is identified, we offer targeted 1:1 THRIVE sessions to provide personalised support and help children develop the skills they need to succeed both socially and emotionally.
We also offer our Little Oak nurture provision for children who benefit from a softer, more supported start to their day. This provision focuses on helping children regulate their emotions and feel ready for learning in a calm and nurturing environment.
Our Big Oak provision supports children in Key Stage 1 who have been identified as having specific barriers to learning and who are working below age-related expectations. Children access Big Oak for part of their school day in order to receive targeted teaching and intervention to help them catch up with their peers. The aim of this provision is for children to make accelerated progress over a short period of time before successfully returning full-time to their mainstream class. Big Oak benefits from a high staff-to-child ratio and is led by our SENDCo, Mrs Gray.
As a school, we have introduced regulation mapping to support all children in recognising, understanding and regulating their emotions throughout the school day. In addition, all staff have received extensive training in adaptive teaching strategies to ensure learning is accessible to every child. Our support staff work flexibly across the school, responding to the needs of children rather than being class-based, which enables us to provide tailored interventions and targeted support where it is needed most.
At Kells Lane Primary School, inclusion is at the heart of everything we do, and we are proud to provide a caring, nurturing and ambitious environment where all children can flourish.
Information
As part of the government’s reforms around special educational needs and disability (SEND) and with the introduction of the Code of Practice in September 2014, local authorities are required to publish a local offer showing the support available to disabled children and young people and those with SEN and their families and carers.
Kells Lane Primary School is a maintained mainstream school for students from the ages of 3 to 11. Our school caters for students with all needs. The Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCo) is Mrs R Gray who can be contacted by phoning the school on 0191 4334140 or by emailing send@klps.org.uk
Gateshead SEND Threshold Document
SEND Policy
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Policy
Social, Emotional & Mental Health Policy
Social Emotional and Mental Health Policy