Harlow Green Community Primary School is a maintained mainstream school for students from the ages of 3 to 11. The governing body and staff aims for all children to be included regardless of whether they have special educational needs or not. We will provide equal opportunities for all children which will allow them to experience success and achievement and to reach their full potential. We are an inclusive school and strive to support all children to enable them to make the best possible progress and achieve well.
To accomplish these aims we offer a broad and balanced curriculum with high-quality teaching. Our school caters for students with additional support at school if the child has an identified Special Educational Need and/or Disability. The term Special Educational Need and Disability (SEND) describes the needs of children who have a difficulty or disability which makes learning harder for them than other children of the same age.
We provide effective support for children with special educational needs and disabilities, starting from our first contact with parents and carers when a child enters our school. We make sure that additional needs are identified early and we offer a range of provision according to identified needs. We work with a range of other professionals, e.g. from Health, to make sure that all children receive the support they need to do well at school.
Mrs Softley – Assistant Head Teacher / SENDCo
The Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENDCo) is Mrs L Softley who can be contacted via the school office.
To read more about the Harlow Green SEND School offer click here.
To download the school’s SEND policy click here.
Click here to access Gateshead’s SEND Local Offer.
Assessing Need – Gateshead Thresholds
To support different agencies and families to work together and have a consistent identification of children’s needs a new ‘thresholds’ document has been created. This can be accessed by clicking on the following link SEND Thresholds – Gateshead Local Offer SEND 0 to 25 years (gateshead-localoffer.org)
The following presentation was delivered to parents/carers of children with SEND to provide information about changes to SEND provision in Gateshead which has implications for school provision.
