Special Educational Needs & Disabilities
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SENDCo |
Mrs Halpin |
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Additional SEND support |
Mrs Jones |
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Inclusion mentors |
Mrs Crowther and Mrs Ingham |
If you have any concerns about your child's learning needs, please firstly make an appointment to discuss your concerns with your child's class teacher.
An appointment can be made with Mrs Halpin, our Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENDCo), can be contacted via the school office.
We have links with Bradford SCIL Team, Bradford Speech and Language Services and the School Nursing Service. If you would like contact information for these services please contact Mrs Halpin or the office for more details.
All schools are required to write a 'Local Offer' detailing the provision which is in place for children who have Special Educational Needs or who have a disability. If you would like to find out more information on Bradford's Local Offer, please click here.
Home Farm Primary School's local offer, our SEND Policy, Accessibility Plan and last academic year's SEND Report are all available below:
SEND useful information for families
Please see below posters with barcodes to keep you up-to-date with family support options that Bradford offers. Also on this page, you can find useful words and phrases that professionals use on a daily basis. Finally at the bottom of the page, you will find a link to show ‘One Minute guides’ which are 1 page documents that provide quick, simple and accessible information.
The Zones of Regulation
The Zones of Regulation is a tool used to help children with self-regulation and self-control. This type of system puts complex feelings into 4 colours and helps children (and adults!) to improve their ability to recognise and communicate how they're feeling in a safe, non-judgmental way.
This approach teaches children to use strategies or tools to help them move between zones. We are keen to share these approaches with our staff, parents and pupils so these approaches can be used at Home Farm Primary to support talking about emotions and developing self-regulation skills.
The Zones of Regulation categorises states of alertness and emotions into four coloured zones of RED, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE. It is important to know that it's fine for children to experience all of these emotions while they're at home or at school. There is no bad zone, but it is important to learn and use strategies that would help children get to their green zone. We all know it’s invaluable for children to learn about their emotions. Children will feel sadness in their lives. They need to recognise sadness in order to know when they are happy. We also need to teach strategies to manage anger too. Everyone gets angry (and that's ok) it's how we manage those feelings that is really impotant - so we can all stay safe.
For more information please see the parents guide below:
An Introduction – One Minute Guides
One Minute guides are 1 page documents that provide quick, simple and accessible information.
SEND Complaints
The procedure for any person wishing to make a SEND complaint, is to communicate with the child's class teacher in the first instance. If unresolved please direct your concerns to the SENDCo. If after this point you wish to take the complaint further, communicaton can be made with the Senior Leadership Team.
For more information please see School Concerns and Complaints Policy below: