Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND)

Bradfield School aims to meet the needs of all students and ensure that all have access to a broad and balanced curriculum.

We are a school that supports students to be fully included in all aspects of school life, to enable every student to realise their potential and achieve success.

Our SENDCo (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator) is Miss T Bullough. You can contact a member of the SEND department via our email address:

send@bradfield.sheffield.sch.uk

Bradfield School use the SSG (Sheffield Support Grid) to level the need and provision for students with SEND.

The SSG uses the official categories of need set out by the Special Educational Needs & Disability (SEND) Code of Practice: 0-25 years (2014) and illustrates the Teaching and Learning Strategies suitable for each. It also indicates the expected support levels to be provided, the identification and assessment tools that may be in place and which other services may be able to help. Quality First Teaching and the three waves of intervention model are referenced to provide guidance and strategies so practitioners can support pupils within secondary settings.

There are 5 levels of the SSG, ranging from some differentiation, support and awareness of SEND (Level 1) up to profound and multiple difficulties that require a different full-time provision (Level 5).

Below is a table summarising the SSG levels.

Bradfield School SSG provision	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5
Access to high quality first teaching (Wave 1), with staff who have an awareness of SEND	X	X	X	X	X
Short-term, targeted intervention (Wave 2)		X	X	X	X
Personalised and individualised support (Wave 3)			X	X	X
Highly bespoke package of support				X	X
All learning is within the environment of a specialist provision					X
Needs of the student are published on the student's Bromcom	X	X	X	X	X
Quality first teaching strategies to support are on the SEN Register	X	X	X	X	X
The needs of the student and strategies to support are on the student's Pupil Passport		X	X	X	X
Progress of students are reviewed via standard school processes such as parents' evening and termly reports	X	X	X	X	X
The lines of communication with staff who work with the young person are maintained via telephone and email		X	X	X	X
The progress of the student is reviewed termly via their Support Plan or Extended Support Plan			X	X	X
The progress of the students is reviewed termly via their Extended Support Plan and annually via their Education, Health and Care Plan				X	X

Graduated Approach Review Cycle 2023-24

At Bradfield School we ensure that the SSG is reflected in our SEN Review cycle. Below are the planned dates for review of SEND.

Support Plans (SSG Level 3)

via School Cloud, 30 minutes per review

Term 1

KS3 Wednesday 29^th November 2023

KS4 Thursday 29^th November 2023

Term 2

KS3 Monday 4^th March 2024

KS4 Tuesday 5^th March 2024

Term 3

KS3 Wednesday 19^th June 2024

KS4 Thursday 20^th June 2024

Extended Support Plans (SSG Level 3)

via School Cloud, 45 minutes per review