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SEND
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Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
At Low Road and Windmill Primary Schools, we are committed to ensuring that every child—regardless of need—has the opportunity to thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.
We believe in nurturing the whole child. Happy, confident, and emotionally secure children are better equipped to engage with learning and reach their full potential.
We have high expectations for all learners and recognise that some children may require additional support or tailored provision to help them succeed. Our inclusive approach ensures that every child is valued, supported, and challenged appropriately.
Working in close partnership with parents, carers, and a range of external professionals, we aim for all pupils to make strong progress from their individual starting points. We regularly review and adapt our provision to meet evolving needs and celebrate every step forward.
We are proud to collaborate with the JESS Cluster Team, based at our Windmill site. JESS provides a wide range of family support and therapeutic services across Beeston, Belle Isle, Holbeck, and Hunslet—supporting 12 primary schools, 2 high schools, and 5 children’s centres. Their work with voluntary, community, and faith sector organisations helps ensure joined-up support for families and reduces the need for statutory interventions.
While Windmill is not a designated resourced provision, we are deeply committed to creating bespoke opportunities for our SEND pupils across all age phases. We offer a variety of tailored spaces and interventions designed to meet individual needs, promote independence, and support emotional regulation.
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Intent
At our Broomfield SILC Primary Partnership, we offer a broad, balanced and aspirational curriculum that’s personalised for our learners. Pupils can access mainstream in order to reach their potential and develop the appropriate social, academic and independence skills to prepare them for the next stage in their education and achieve their goals and aspirations.
Implementation
Our partnership has two classrooms with an admission limit of 16 across the partnership. The partnership caters for pupils from Reception to Year 6 who have SEND. We have a higher ratio of staffing to pupils in order to cater for their needs and so that we can also offer support whilst attending mainstream sessions. Staff are highly skilled in areas such as Team Teach and SCERTS in order to support the communication and mutual/ self-regulation of the pupils. Mainstream sessions can range from short bursts at 30 minutes up to full morning/afternoon slots depending on the needs of the pupils. Each classroom has a fenced outdoor learning area that has access onto the main playground and additional break out/ calm spaces to support self-regulation.
Where appropriate pupils can access mainstream lessons like English, Maths, Science, PE or social times with one to one support from our class teams. Both classrooms are situated near to accessible toilets and our staff are trained to support your child with any personal hygiene and toileting routines.
Opera North delivers one session each week to our students enabling them to develop their musicianship skills and experience a variety of musical activities. Where appropriate, pupils may have opportunities to take part in small group instrumental tuition.
We use the Zones of Regulation and this is embedded into our routines allowing this strategy to become an integrated part of our curriculum and thus impacting on learning as pupils can self-regulate more quickly.
The Jane Considine approach is used within the Formal curriculum to ensure consistency in teaching and progression through the Key Stages. This programme ensures the development of pupils writing skills by teaching in a progressive manner.
White Rose Maths is used within the Formal curriculum and is differentiated to meet the needs of our students through the personalisation of activities and worksheets.
Read Write Inc. is used as a systematic synthetic phonics scheme to support early readers and writers and ensure progression in skills and pupils take part in dedicated daily phonics and reading lessons, as well as reading being embedded across the curriculum.
Impact
Pupils have access to mainstream provision in line with peers who are developing typically for their age. These interactions have a positive impact on both Broomfield and Windmill pupils, helping to develop social skills, self-esteem and an understanding diversity in the world around them. Access to mainstream inclusion ensures that pupils are well prepared for the next step in their educational journey, recognised accreditations and, if appropriate, full re-integration to mainstream education.