SEND
Inclusion - SEND
At Grand Avenue Primary and Nursery School, our goal is to create a learning environment where every child can succeed by:
- Providing an excellent start in learning, building strong foundations that will support their future growth and success.
- Encouraging personal development, where each child can grow as an individual and learner, gaining the skills, knowledge, and qualities they need for life beyond school.
- Offering an inclusive approach to learning, ensuring that all children have outstanding opportunities to reach their full potential.
Our SEND Policy and Information Report aims to:
- Outline how we will support and provide for pupils with special educational needs (SEND), ensuring their needs are met and they can thrive.
- Clarify the roles and responsibilities of everyone involved, including staff, parents, and external specialists, to ensure a coordinated and effective approach to SEND support.
Please click here to view Grand Avenue Primary and Nursery School's SEND Policy, Information Report, and contact details.
Our SEND team:
| Miss Claire Fowler | Assistant Head for Inclusion (SENDCo and Designated teacher for Looked after Children) |
| Miss Katie Hempston | Assistant Head for Early Years and Early Years SENDCo |
| Mrs Jane Pidduck | Advisory Assistant for Inclusion, Senior HLTA and Senior Mental Health Lead |
| Mrs Debbie Gilmore | HLTA and ADHD Ambassador |
| Mrs Claire Webb | SEND teacher |
Contact details: 0208 399 5344
SENDteam@grandavenue.kingston.sch.uk
Support from Achieving for Children (AfC)
Please see Kingston's (AfC) local offer on their website for further information about what you can expect in terms of support for SEND pupils in the local area: https://www.kr.afcinfo.org.uk/local_offer/
This leaflet contains links to some examples of information that you can find on the SEND Local Offer website for Kingston and Richmond.
Information Poster and Leaflets about Kingston's local Offer for families.
Special Educational Needs and Disability Register
All local authorities must have a record or register of children with Special Educational Needs and / or Disabilities (SEND) in their area. If you live in either Kingston or Richmond, we encourage anyone whose family includes a child or young person whose has a special educational need or disability to register.
Everyone on the register will benefit from:
- Information about support, services, activities and events
- Information aimed at young people with disabilities
- Opportunities to have your say about the services that are important to you
- The knowledge that your anonymous statistical data is helping us to plan and improve services
Inclusion Charter
All schools are committed to making sure every child or young person receives high quality first inclusive provision which meets their needs, gives appropriate support and helps them to achieve. Please click here to read AfC Inclusion Charter which Grand Avenue primary and Nursery School supports.
Kingston Parent Carer Forum
Kingston PCF is made up of local parents and carers who work to ensure children with special educational needs and disabilities and their needs are heard and understood by local services and decision makers. Part of a national network we try to ensure by feeding in the experiences and needs of Kingston parents and carers who have children with additional needs and disabilities, better, more relevant and responsive services will follow. As local SEND parents ourselves we bring a wealth of different experiences of helping our own children and young people through life.
Contact
Phone: 07930 212743
Email: kingstonpcf@gmail.com
Website: https://kingstonpcf.co.uk/
SEND parent and carer engagement officers ensure that parents and carers of children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities are fully engaged with the services provided by Achieving for Children. More information can be found here
SEND Parent Champions are a group of local parent and carer volunteers (working alongside Achieving for Children) who are supported to inform other families with a child or young person with special educational needs or a disability about useful services in their area. The initiative is part of a national scheme that helps thousands of families and provides full training. We have lovely SEND parent champions who have recently joined the scheme and are parents at Grand Avenue. They are able to: be a point of contact for other SEND parents; liaise with yourself and the school; help with signposting to local services; give information to SEND parents in the form of leaflets and website links giving; raises parents’ awareness of SEND services in the area; brings SEND families together in community settings; allows SEND families to be involved in the development of local services; work to support minority groups and their engagement with local services; plus more!!
Click here for more information about the SEND Parent Champions at Grand Avenue.
If you would like a parent champion to contact you please fill out this google form.
Contact Email: sendparentchampions123@gmail.com
SEND Information, Advice and Support (SENDIASS)
The Information, Advice and Support Service (SENDIASS) in Kingston and Richmond offers advice and support across a wide range of subjects. This may include help with personal budgets and how to use the Local Offer plus:
- support with understanding reports and letters, attending meetings and preparing for assessments and reviews
- information and signposting to support services in your area
- support with Transition and Preparing for Adulthood
- support with and signposting to mediation
- advice and support on benefits
These services offer advice to children and young people as well as parents and carers.
Contact:
Phone: 0808 164 5527
Website: rksendiass.co.uk