SEND

At Miltoncross Academy, we expect all students, including those with SEND, to achieve and make progress in line with the achievements and progress of all other children within the school, and those nationally.

The SEND Code of Practice says that:

A child or young person has SEND if they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made for him or her.

A child of compulsory school age or a young person has a learning difficulty or disability if they:

• have a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age, or;
• have a disability which prevents or hinders them from making use of facilities of a kind generally provided for others of the same age in mainstream schools.

A child under compulsory school age has special educational needs if they are likely to fall within the definition above when they reach compulsory school age or would do so if special educational provision was not made for them.

There are four broad categories of SEND:

1.         Communication and interaction – such as Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and Speech and Language difficulties.

2.         Cognition and learning – such as Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Moderate Learning Difficulties.

3.         Social, emotional and mental health – such as ADHD, Attachment Disorders, emotional difficulties and mental health difficulties.

4.         Physical and sensory – such as a physical disability that impairs learning, hearing impairments and visual impairments

SENCO

Our SENCO is Mr J Mersey who can be contacted via joe.mersey@miltoncross-tkat.org.

Please visit our Policies page to read our SEND Policy and SEND Information Report.

The arrangements for the admission of SEND students can also be found on our Policies page.

The Local Offer sets out Portsmouth City Council’s approach to SEN and contains lots of useful information click here to read it.