Learning Support
What are S.E.N. ?
Children have Special Educational Needs if they have a learning difficulty that needs special arrangements to be made for them. The teachers can sort out most problems by using different methods and materials in their classrooms. Sometimes extra help may be provided by the school for a short time. A few children have more complicated problems.
Children have a learning difficulty if they have a much greater difficulty in learning than most children of their age or have a disability which hinders them from using educational facilities.
Your child may have difficulties in one or more of the following areas:
- Communication and interaction (speech and language)
- Cognition and learning (thinking and understanding)
- Behaviour, emotional and social development
- Sensory (sight or hearing) and/or physical
- Medical - although a medical condition does not necessarily mean that a child will have special educational needs
At Meole Brace School there are a number of people you can contact if you are concerned about your child's progress:
- Subject Teacher
- Form Tutor
- Head of Year
- Head of Department
- Additional Educational Needs Co-ordinator
- Special Educational Needs Governor.
Issues you may wish to discuss include:
- Difficulties in the classroom e.g. work, behaviour, relationships, physical or medical conditions.
- Performance at the appropriate level for their age.
- Extra help available.
- Any records about your child, e.g. monitoring arrangements.
- The Individual Education Plan (IEP) to discuss the progress of the targets set and the strategies put in place to help.
- Ways that you can help.
Parent Partnership Service:
Meeting Point House, Southwater Square, Off St. Quentin Gate, Town Centre, Telford, Shropshire,
TF3 4HS
Tel: 01952 291350
Meole Brace School Science College, Longden Road, Shrewsbury, SY3 9DW
phone: 01743 235961 Fax: 01743 364017 E-Mail: admin@meolebrace.shropshire.sch.uk
