Nottingham High School

The School provides for those students with special education needs [SEN] and those with learning difficulties and/or disabilities [LDD], referred to as SEND. The School’s provision in this respect is coordinated by the Learning Support Co-ordinator in the Senior School who works closely with the Deputy Head [Academic]. A separate policy ‘Support for Learning – Senior School’ is available.

Where a student has an Educational Health Care Plan (EHC Plan) [statutory assessment], the Learning Support Co-ordinator will liaise with teachers to ensure that the education received fulfils its requirements. Though it is not the responsibility of the School to review EHC plans annually, the Learning Support Co-ordinator will endeavour to ensure that, for any student with a EHC, their Local Authority has conducted a review. It is the policy of the School that where a student has a recognised learning difficulty or disability, the Learning Support Team will include the student’s name in the SEND/LDD Register and provides copies of individual student learning support records for subject teachers.

A student is not regarded as having a learning difficulty solely because the language or form of language of the home is different from the language in which they are or will be taught. As our students have been assessed in English as part of the School’s selection processes, no additional provision is made for teaching ‘English as an Additional Language’, however students may receive additional support outside of lesson time in this area. Should this need arise, we would discuss with parents the best way forward. In all three sections of the School, all external candidates are spoken with as part of the assessment process so that we can be sure that they are able to speak English to a sufficiently high standard to be able to access lessons.