Blidworth Oaks Primary School
Primary school with nursery for boys and girls aged 3 - 11 years. The school also offers the 2 year old entitlement provision. The school provide breakfast and afterschool provision.
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Contact Details
- Contact Name
- Mr S Walker
- Contact Position
- Headteacher
- Telephone
- 01623 792348 01623 792348
- office@blidworthoaks.notts.sch.uk
- Website
- www.blidworthoaks.co.uk
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Where to go
- Name
- Blidworth Oaks Primary School
- Address
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Haywood Avenue
Blidworth
Mansfield
Nottinghamshire - Postcode
- NG21 0RE
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Time, Costs and Availability
Time / Date Details
- When is it on
- Open Monday to Friday from 8:45am until 3:15pm
- Time of day
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Afternoon
Morning
Costs
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Table of Costs Amount Cost Type £4.00 Before School £8.00 for full session till 6pm. After School - Details
- Breakfast and before school provision starts at 7:30am. The after school provision starts at 3:15pm and ends 6pm.
Availability
- Age Ranges
- 3 - 11 years
Additional Local Offer Information
Local Offer
- Description
Access to the curriculum:
- Small group support in class from teacher or TA
- Facilitating access to learning through the appropriate differentiation of tasks and activities
- Use of visual support, including visual timetables and checklists
- Use of timers where appropriate
- Individual targets
- Scaffolding e.g. writing frames, story maps
- Additional resources if appropriate, eg-Use of interactive whiteboards, regular access to computers, laptops and iPads
- Provision of resources to enable multi-sensory learning
- Supportive computer programmes
Strategies to support/develop Numeracy:
- Targeted small group support in class
- Withdrawal of small groups or individual pupils for additional Numeracy support
- Numeracy Intervention, including Numicon
- Access to table top resources to ensure that learning is multi-sensory and practical
Strategies to support/develop Literacy including Reading:
- Small group reading support in class through guided reading and individual reading
- Reading support outside of class from volunteers
- Additional small group literacy support from Teaching assistant
- Differentiated and multi-sensory activities
- Handwriting development programmes
- Access to resources, including high frequency word mats and phonics sound mats.
Strategies to support social and emotional difficulties and mental health:
- Consistent school wide implementation of the school’s behaviour policy
- Identification of those pupils whose behaviour difficulties are persistent and constitute a barrier to learning. Provision may include close collaboration with parents/carers, home/school book to aid daily communication between home and school, daily behaviour oversight by school staff
- A range of pastoral support to support children’s behaviour in and beyond the classroom, including ELSA
- If necessary, a referral will be made to the Schools and Families Support Services (SFSS) through the use of Springboard.
- Regular advise from Education Psychology Service
- Collaboration and communication with all external professionals involved with children as appropriate e.g. GPs, CAMHS and external agencies.
- Open door policy for parents
- CPI Training
- Use of EMET Counselling.
Support/supervision at unstructured times of the day including personal care:
- Trained midday supervisors in the lunch hall and playgrounds
- Midday supervisors initiating and supporting activities during lunchtime
- Use of Teaching Assistants
- Responsible pupils helping in playground
- Use of teaching staff
Strategies/programmes to support Physical needs:
- Assessment by and intervention from an occupational therapist on referral.
- Implementation of recommendations by occupational therapist or physiotherapist by an allocated member of staff.
- Provision of support resources such as writing wedges and pencil grip.
- Appropriate staff trained in First Aid
- Staff training in the administration of support and/ or medication for Anaphylaxis, Epipen and diabetes.
- Liaison with medical professionals for children with ongoing treatment.
- Photographic details of children requiring medical intervention and individual healthcare plan for children with significant medical needs
- Manual handling for personal care
- Use of sensory room
Strategies/programmes to support speech and language:
- Assessment by and intervention from a speech and language therapist on referral (under the age of 12).
- School funded Speech and Language therapist.
- Additional support and interventions within class.
- Implementation of Speech and Language programmes by TAs .
Planning and assessment:
- Individual targets
- Differentiated learning activities
- Multi-sensory opportunities
- Incorporation into planning of any advice or guidance provided by external professionals supporting individual pupils.
- EHAF referrals to external agencies/social care as required
- Coordinated planning between class teacher and teaching assistant for pupils of SEND
- Regular assessment of progress and achievement against national expectations and individual targets.
Engagement with parents/carers – Liaison/communication with parents:
- Opportunities to meet the teacher at the start of the academic year
- Open door policy for parents to meet class teacher or senior management
- Regular progress meetings with parents/carers by class teacher and/or SENCO/SEN team
- Support for parents who have concerns
- WASP (We Are Special People- autism group)
- Autism East Midlands
- APTCOO
Arrangement for specialist expertise in and outside school:
- Early identification of needs requiring referral to external professionals
- Regular communication and information sharing with an extensive range of external agencies
- Sharing of professional reports with parents
Monitoring and evaluating the impact and outcomes of interventions:
- Pupil progress meetings
- Monitoring of individual targets
- Teacher and TA observations
- Pupil voice considered where appropriate
- Data analysis through in school tracking system
- Meetings with parents and carers
- Contact Name
- Miss Radford
Schools Extended Local Offer Response
2. (For mainstream schools & maintained nurseries only) How does the school/setting know if pupils need extra help and what should I do if I think that my child may have special educational needs?
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8. What are the arrangements for consulting young people with SEN and involving them in their education?
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