SEND Vision
At Olga Primary School we thrive to have a supportive inclusive environment, where high quality teaching is embedded in our practise, ensuring that children with additional needs are purposefully involved and making good progress for their learning journey.
We want all children to experience a rich and varied curriculum, based on enjoyable, hands on activities that provide them with deeper understanding and long-lasting experiences. We aim for children with additional needs to be taught alongside their peers ensuring they are an active participant.
We aim for children with additional needs to be identified as early as possible, including children joining our Early Years and new arrivals in different year groups.
We strongly believe that a team approach is key to children’s success in their journey through school. We aim for parents to act as partners, ensuring that their voice is heard, and they actively contribute to discussions around next steps and children’s targets.
We aim to create a strong and experienced network of support team around a child, by closely working with external professionals. Within the school day we recognise that every adult plays a vital role in ensuring a child’s success, and therefore we promote a culture of collaboration, discussion, and informed shared strategies.
By the time that children leave Olga Primary School we aim for all children, including those with additional needs to be confident and empowered learners who can communicate about their needs and how they learn best, recognising the power and impact of their own voice.
SEN Team
Rebecca Adams - Assistant Headteacher for Inclusion & SENCo
Paul Cox - Learning Mentor & Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA)
Lionel Ainsworth - Skills Mentor
Natalie Zahn - Speech and Language Therapist
Sophie Jubb - Play Therapist
Policies and Reports
Inclusion for disabled pupils
Olga Primary School aims to increase access to education for pupils with disabilities in the three areas required by the planning duties in the Equality Act 2010.
A person is regarded as having a disability under the Act where they have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.
The three areas focused on are:
- Increase the extent to which pupils with disabilities can participate in the curriculum.
- Improve the physical environment of the school to enable pupils with disabilities to take better advantage of education, benefits, facilities and services provided.
- Improve the availability of accessible information to pupils with disabilities.
The school’s Accessibility Plan set out the proposals of the Governing Body of the school to increase access to education for disabled pupils in the three areas required by the Equality Act of 2010.
Tower Hamlets Local Offer
London Borough of Tower Hamlets has a wide range of services to support your child with SEN. Find out more here.
Useful Links and Websites
This card can be applied for to support your child. On the card it will share their
needs through symbols. This card can then be shown to different organisations
(who accept the card) such as Thorpe Park or London Zoo, where they make
adaptions to support your child's experiences .e.g quicker access in queues.
This website provides information for families with children and young adults
who have Speech Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) with a focus
on Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).
This website provides information and resources for dyslexia, including
information about how as a parent you can support your child.
Please follow the link below to find out more information about Social stories.
Social stories are a strategy that helps to prepare children for new social
experiences/ changes in routines as well providing a strategy to teach children
on how to manage different social situations.
Please follow the link below to find out about the Disability Living Allowance,
including information about whether your eligible to apply and how to apply for it.
Please follow the link below to find out more information on Family Fund, a
charity that provides grants to families to support children with additional needs.
There is information on the website about who is eligible to apply for a grant and
how to apply for it.
This website provides information, guidance and advice for families on autism.
Please follow the link below to access the website.
One - Minute Guides - Annual Reviews
Please follow the links below to find a short guide written by Tower Hamlets on Annual Reviews.
One - Minute Guides - Education, Health and Care Plan Assessment
Please follow the links below to find a short guide written by Tower Hamlets on
Annual Reviews and Education, Health and Care Plan Assessment.
Please follow the link below to find information from Phoenix Primary and
Secondary School Outreach Service. This is a specialist school that provides
resources and training for families and children with a diagnosis of autism or
awaiting an assessment for autism.
Signalong - The Communication Charity
Please follow the link below to find information from Signalong. Signalong is a
key word sign-supported communication system based on British sign
language. It supports children to understand spoken word and to help them to
express their wants and needs.
Tower Hamlets SEND Information, Advice and Support Service
This service provides information and advice to parents of children with special
educational needs and disability. Please click on the link below to find out how to
contact the service.
Please follow the link below to find information from the Zones of Regulation
website. This focuses on supporting us to understand our emotions and how
to manage them.
