HYTHE BAY

Our Specialist Resource Provision (SRP) comprises of 2 classrooms located within the centre of our school for children with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN).

All children have an Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP) identifying Developmental Language Disorder and/or Phonological (speech sound) Disorder. They have a profile of need appropriate to an SLCN SRP including a Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) recommendation for intensive daily Speech and Language Therapy and joint planning and delivery between SLT and a Specialist Teacher. SLCN should be the priority area of need and places are allocated by the Local Education Authority SEN Panel.

 

Common difficulties are:

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- difficulties processing and understanding spoken language.

- difficulties remembering and recalling vocabulary.

- difficulties organising their own spoken sentences.

- difficulties with speech sounds.

- difficulties with social communication.

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While many pupils will be working at a level lower than their peers, this is usually a result of their language needs. They should have the potential to access a  mainstream curriculum with the appropriate level of differentiation, language support and specialist teaching.

Children travel from a variety of locations across South Kent.

We are staffed by a team of 2 Specialist SLCN Teachers (with post graduate certificates in SLCN), a Specialist HLTA, 4 Specialist TAs and 3 Speech and Language Therapists (7.5 days per week Full Time Equivalent Speech and Language Therapy time).

All children are part of a mainstream class and there is an expectation that they access all the usual school activities and routines.

 

Children arriving by taxi are met by SRP staff while those living locally go straight to their mainstream class. Children then register in mainstream class before going to their SRP class.

In the mornings, KS1 and KS2 Literacy and Maths sessions are taught discretely within the SRP for most children. SRP pupils  access 1:1, group or collaborative therapy as appropriate. Some lessons are team taught jointly by the Specialist Teacher and the Speech Therapist.

Children access playtime, lunchtime and assembly with mainstream peers and with support from SRP staff.

KS1 and KS2 cross-curricular lessons are accessed in mainstream by most children in the afternoons.

Year R children access small group SLCN support in the SRP in the afternoons.

We aim to offer a fully inclusive learning experience, following the National Curriculum at a level appropriate to the child. There are many ways we involve parents in their learning journey including opportunities for face to face communications, an interactive app (Classdojo), termly ECHP target reviews, annual reviews and informal telephone calls.

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