St Thomas Community Primary School

St Thomas Community Primary School

Additional Learning Needs Policy

The National Assembly for Wales Circular 47/2006,Inclusion and Pupil Support (2006) notes that the Welsh Assembly Government has adopted the term, ‘Additional Learning Needs’(ALN) in order to recognise the diverse and complex needs of learners and to reflect a more holistic approach to meeting individual pupils’ learning needs. This is a wider term than ‘Special Educational Needs’ (SEN) and encompasses all learners who require additional support because they have learning needs greater than the majority of their peers, either due to their circumstances or because they have a longer-term condition or disorder.The term, ‘SEN’therefore is a subdivision of ALN and continues to be used to identify those children and young people who have severe, complex and/or specific learning needs as defined in the Education Act 1996 and theSEN Code of Practice for Wales (2002).

Some learners with Additional Learning Needs may fall into vulnerable learner categories and vice versa. However, not all learners within vulnerable groups will necessarily have Additional Learning Needs.

Below is a list of groups identified within St Thomas Community Primary School as being vulnerable learner groups and/or groups with Additional Learning Needs. Accompanying this list is the provision that we provide to ensure that these groups are not disadvantaged in any way and that their individual learning needs are met. Provision has been sub-categorised into Literacy, Numeracy, Science and Other. At St Thomas we have also chosen to identify More Able and Talented pupils as having Additional Learning Needs and specific provision for this group has been included in a separate row. These lists and related provision are not definitive and St Thomas CPS will continue to respond to its changing community and the opportunities it has to develop and improve provision even further.

Provision
ALN Groups/Vulnerable Learner groups / Literacy / Numeracy / Science / Other

SEN
EAL
Pupils of families in difficulties
Pupils with a disability
Pupils with Medical Needs
Travellers
Asylum Seekers
LAC
CP
FSM
Poor Attenders
Pupils living in Deprived areas

EMLAS
IEP’s
Speech Link - KT
Language Link – KT
Project X Reading Scheme
Oxford R T scheme
Literacy Evolve Resources
Film Education Resources
Literacy Blackcat – IT resource
External visitors
Various educational visits
Theatre Na Nog theatre show
Pandemonium theatre show
Sherston Gogglebox
Intervention groups
Individual targets
Library reading
Guided reading
Reading Eggs
Differentiated spelling groups
LCP Phonic, Yellow Door
Parental Engagement Opportunities
2Type, Tizzy
Easy Type
Project X Code/ Floppy Phonics

EMLAS
IEP’s
A range of concrete apparatus including numicon & multilink
Online Maths Packs
Sumdog
Mathletics – Yr 6
IEP’s
Numeracy Blackcat – IT Resource
Sherston Crystal ICT Channel
Differentiated Maths teaching
Percy Parker Tables CD
Intervention groups
Individual targets
Parental Engagement Opportunities
Interactive Resources

Sherston Goggle Box
Concept Cartoons
Digital Microscopes
Data Loggers
Sherston Crystal ICT Channel
A range of resources
Individual targets
Links to the Museum
Educational Visits
Annual Techniquest workshops
Biennial Science Week Theme
After school Science Club

Exchange Counselling Service

Behavioural Support Service
Pastoral Support Plans
Team Around the Family
Social Services
EWO & Project workers
Educational Psychologist
Speech & Language Support
Individual Health Care Plans
A range of online resources
HT/DH to attend all meetings ensuring consistency
Parental Engagement Opportunities
First Aid training for staff
Home School Link books

MAT Reading Groups – HT/Library

Reading Express –School Website
Individual Targets

Differentiated Maths teaching
MAT Maths problems – DH
Sumdog - School Website
Mathletics – Yr 6
Individual Targets
Interactive Resources

Crest Science Club – SH

Additional Opportunities as and when they arise eg art projects, sporting clubs & events, specialist visitors, peripatetic Music/Welsh teachers etc
Welsh Ambassadors

A paper copy of this policy is held in the ‘Policy Documents’ folder in the Head teacher’s office and a digital copy is available via the school website.

This policy is to be reviewed annually unless a change occurs which necessitates an earlier review.

Last review – June 2014

Next review – Summer 2015