Year 6 Open Evening: Wednesday 27th September 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Early Identification and Assessment
At King James I Academy, we aim to ensure that students who are thought to have a special educational need are identified and assessed as early as possible. Prior to entry to Year 7, primary colleagues share details of a student’s SEN via the Primary Passport.
Early in the Autumn term Year 7 students are screened using CAT tests Cognitive, Ability Tests as well as subject base line tests. The results of these tests, along with their KS2 data and information gathered through the transition process (information from primary school) will determine the level of initial intervention.
In addition, students with SEND are also identified at our school by the following ways, including:
We adopt a graduated response approach to meeting a student's special educational needs and/or disabilities, which is called 'Assess, Plan, Do, Review'.
This means that we will:
As part of identifying whether a student has SEND, we can also use our school ‘Early Identification Form' which also uses the Assess, Plan, Do, Review' process.
Most children and young people will have their special educational needs met in mainstream schools through good classroom practice. This is called Quality First Teaching.
When a student is identified as having special educational needs and/or disabilities, King James 1 will provide interventions and support that are additional to or different from those provided as part of the school's usual differentiated curriculum. This intervention will be described as SEN Support. The level of additional intervention and support will depend on the individual students need/s. The student will be placed on the SEN Register and parents/carers will be informed.
For these students either a SEN Support Plan will be produced, this will describe the child’s/young person’s needs and provide details of the provision/strategies that we will make to meet a child’s/young person’s special educational needs and agreed outcomes. Parents/carers as well as the child/young person are an integral part of this process.
It is important to note that not all students referred to the SEND team will be SEN students; any support and guidance may be short, medium or long term.
SEND Data King James I Academy
At King James I Academy, we have experience of supporting children and young people with a wide range of need from each of the four broad areas of SEND:
The school provides data on the levels and types of need to the Local Authority. This is collected through the school census.
Number of Students by Area of Need:
Department Context
September 2020
September 2020 |
K |
E |
No SEN |
Grand Total |
Year 11 |
37 |
3 |
99 |
139 |
Year 10 |
31 |
1 |
119 |
151 |
Year 9 |
45 |
7 |
117 |
169 |
Year 8 |
47 |
1 |
132 |
180 |
Year 7 |
36 |
2 |
129 |
167 |
Grand Total |
196 |
14 |
596 |
806 |
Composition of cohort– by major need
Yr |
C&L |
C&I |
SEMH |
PD |
Total |
7 |
20 |
4 |
12 |
2 |
38 |
8 |
30 |
5 |
13 |
0 |
48 |
9 |
28 |
7 |
15 |
2 |
52 |
10 |
18 |
2 |
12 |
0 |
32 |
11 |
22 |
2 |
15 |
1 |
40 |
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