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SEND & Inclusion
The SEND Team at Robert May’s School are based mainly in the HUBL and Resourced Provision area.
The team works closely with teachers to ensure the best possible provision is implemented across the school. Our aim is to support staff in making classrooms fully inclusive and ensure needs are identified and met effectively. In the first instance all students’ needs are supported through the Universal Offer.
The universal offer refers to the support provided to all children, including those with special educational needs (SEN), within mainstream educational settings. It includes:
- High-Quality Teaching: All children receive adapted teaching tailored to diverse learning styles and needs, ensuring inclusivity and accessibility.
- Reasonable Adjustments: Teachers adapt the learning environment, materials, and strategies to remove barriers to participation for pupils with additional needs.
- Support: Teachers review progress and provide targets monitored and graduated over time.
Unstructured time can be stressful for some of our students. We offer daily support to a selected number of students, which includes a range of activities, which encourage and develop social skills. We also offer a quiet, calm space if this is needed.
As a non-selective mainstream secondary school, we recognise that students in our educational care have a range of needs and requirements. Some of these can be identified through educational screening, whilst some require a diagnosis form a medical professional.
These include:
- Dyslexia
- Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC)
- ADHD
- SEMH - Social Emotional Mental Health
- DCD previously known as Dyspraxia
- Dyscalculia
- Physical Disabilities (PD)
- Hearing impairment (HI)
- Visual Impairment (VI)
As a school we cannot diagnose these types of additional needs, but will respond to the advice provided by the professional team working with the families and students.
How do we support students with additional and/or special educational needs/disabilities?
We adopt a graduated response to need:
- Adaptive teaching – it is the responsibility of classroom teachers to meet the educational needs of all students in their class through adaptive teaching, supportive resources and effective planning and implementation of the curriculum.
- Advice and support given to teaching staff by the Inclusion of Director of Inclusion, The Head of Teaching and learning, through CPD for staff and through external advice from specialist teachers and advisors. This advice and support is used by classroom teachers in the mainstream setting to ensure lessons meet the needs of students.
- Application of the recommendations outlined in the EHCP. During the application process of the EHCP and through annual reviews recommendations regarding means of supporting specific needs are made, which translates as alternative support. At times this could include use of an LSA in some classrooms to support a student, or could include some small group intervention.
- IEPs - (Individual Educational Plans) - short term targets set that are discussed with parents and students and regularly reviewed throughout the academic year
- Intervention Groups - students might be identified to attend a 6 week programme to support an area of need such as social skills, Occupational Therapy, speech & language
- Additional support for Maths & English - identified and led by the department
It is important to note that students on the SEND Register will not always have LSA support in class or through small group work; it has been identified through extensive research that the best means of supporting students with their learning needs is in the classroom, through High quality teaching.
Working in Partnership
We wish to work closely and collaboratively with parents and students, and would urge that if you have a concern about meeting the need of a student, that you contact the form tutor in the first instance or the Head of Year who can support you in planning what to do next.
Meet the Team
 | Mrs A Gray Director of Inclusion/SENCo - send@rmays.com |
 | Mrs L Parker Manager, Learning Support Dept |
 | Mrs A Cruickshank Specialist SEND Teacher |
 | Ms A Hill Specialist SEND Teacher |
SEND Open Morning
If you would like to book tickets for our upcoming SEND Open Morning, please click here.
Please note, this event is for Parents/Carers of prospective students only.
Robert May's SEND & Inclusion Newsletters
RMS SEND & Inclusion Newsletter Issue 3 - November 2024RMS SEND & Inclusion Newsletter Issue 2 - May 2024
RMS SEND & Inclusion Newsletter Issue 1 - Nov 2023 Issue 6 - June 2023
Issue 4 - Mar 2023 Issue 3 - Feb 2023
Issue 1 - Dec 2022
Letters Home:
SEND-Provision-and-Learning-Support-Developments.pdf
Useful links:
ADHD Foundation The Neurodiversity CharityBritish Dyslexia Association
Young Minds (Fighting for young people’s mental health)
Scope = Equality for disabled people
SENDcast – The Podcast for Special Educational Needs (SEN)
Appeer - Connecting Autistic Girls and Women
Paddy & Christine McGuiness: Our Family and Autism
Mencap - Guide for parents, families and carers
National Autistic Society - Now I know Campaign
Our SEND policy can be found in 'Key Information' > 'Policies'
