Learning Support

Plymstock School Special Education Needs Department

SENCO: Miss Helen Richards, Acting SENCO
ASSISTANT SENCO: Mrs Amanda Anderton

The Learning Support Department exists to provide access additional to and different from the usual routes to the curriculum, physical and academic, at Plymstock School.

Who do we support?

Children who may have:

• Dyslexia
• Physical needs
• ADHD
• Hearing impairment
• Literacy difficulties
• Broken education
• Numeracy difficulties
• Visual impairment
• Syndromes
• English as an additional language
• Autistic spectrum
• Medical needs
• Dyspraxia

Why?

To enable all children to achieve everything they can from what is on offer at Plymstock School.

How?

• support in class
• specialist testing
• offering support and guidance
• enhanced transition
• links with psychology service
• links with outside agencies
• communicating needs to others
• enhanced links with home
• a place that feels safe and secure
• links with the school nurse and CAMHS
• offering a place for meetings and therapies to take place
• forming a bond between teachers, home and pupils, carers and other professionals
• offering testing and screening, help and advice

Our extended service:

8.00 am – 4.00 pm     Monday to Thursday
8.00 am – 3.30 pm     Friday

Our Learning Support base is staffed throughout the day for help with homework or access to advice.

Currently on offer:

• Training sessions
• SEN drop-in
• Homework support – drop-in
• Social skills
• Sign language club
• Lunch-Bunch – guided social lunch group in addition to homework club
• Somewhere to come and make new friends
• Anger Management group
• Anxiety Management group
• Self Esteem group
• Clicker 6 Software