SEND at Haughmond Schools
Haughmond Schools are fully inclusive mainstream schools who offer support to their children within Sundorne Infant and Nursery School and Harlescott Junior School.
These pages of our website will provide you with information to help you understand how we meet the needs of children with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities (SEND) and how we ensure that all children are given the opportunity to thrive, feel valued and part of our community.
If you require further information, please contact our Special Educational needs and Disabilities Coordinator (SENDCo), Claire Baines Price by arranging an appointment with the school office.
Phone 01743 462087 or email: baines-price.c@haughmondfed.net
Shropshire’s Local Offer
Click on the image below to take you to information about available services (including a range of leisure activities through All in Programme and Short Breaks Programme) for children with SEND and their families in Shropshire:
The Send Local Offer
Haughmond Schools SEND Offer 2025
We are ambitious for all children with SEND. We want them to make excellent progress. This means they will know more, remember more and be able to do more, despite their SEND.
We want to give them the knowledge and skills they need for adult life. We think about both long term and short term.
In the long term, we want our children with SEND to:
- have excellent basic skills (especially in reading, writing and maths)
- have good friends and relationships
- live a healthy and independent life in the community
- be successful in work.
As fully inclusive schools, we are proud of the provision in place to support children with additional needs. Our SEND Information Report 2025 and MAT SEND Policy provide useful information about this offer.
Please click on the purple question tabs below to find out more. Alternatively, the full SEND Information Report 2025 can be found here:
What does the term Special Educational Needs mean?
The Definition of Special Educational Needs is taken from the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Code of Practice: for 0-25 years (2014) and states:
A child or young person has SEND if they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made for them. A child of compulsory school age or a young person has a learning difficulty or disability if they:
- Have a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age; or
- Have a disability which prevents or hinders them from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided for others of the same age in mainstream schools … (SEND Code of Practice 2015 para. 6.15)
What are the four areas of special educational need?
The SEND Code of Practice outlines four areas of special educational need into 4 main areas. These are listed below and by clicking on each of the areas you will be taken to the pages that give examples of these area of need with descriptions and links to suggested websites for gaining more information.
Within Haughmond Schools we are mindful as the code of practice states that:
“Many children and young people have difficulties that fit clearly into one of these areas; some have needs that span two or more areas; for others the precise nature of their need may not be clear at the outset.”
We therefore feel it is essential that a holistic profile of each individual child is formed to ensure they feel fully seen, heard, valued and supported to the best of our endeavours.
What should you do if you feel your child has SEND?
- You should speak to your child’s class teacher -you can ask to make an appointment by calling reception on 01743462087 or by emailing adminhjs@haughmondfed.net or adminsisn@haughmond.net
- If you and your child’s teacher, then feel that the school’s SENDCo, Claire Baines Price, needs to be involved, an appointment can be requested by calling reception on 01743462087 or emailing baines-price.c@haughmondfed.net
- If your child is under 5 years old, speak with your Health Visitor or Doctor about your concerns and request a paediatric assessment and a Schedule of Growth assessment.
We will always listen to your concerns and advise next steps following a graduated response.
How will we identify if your child has SEND?
Most children’s needs can be met through readily available universal provision. This consists of High-Quality Teaching and reasonable adjustments across our school. We have expanded our universal provision to make sure that more children have what they need, at the right time.
Some children may need additional, time limited interventions to help them to make progress. This is called our Therapeutic Provision. Children who have support at Therapeutic interventions may not be added to the SEND Register yet as further evidence of need may be required.
Some children may go on to need continued and personalised support through Enhanced Provision, and so will then be provided with a Person Centred Plan (PCP) and added to the SEND school register after discussion with parents.
Very few children may need bespoke support which is provided through either Enhanced or Nurture Uk Provision . If a child has more complex additional needs, support through an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) or a Graduated Support Plan (GSP) will be sought.
Add these links to the underlined words:
https://next.shropshire.gov.uk/the-send-local-offer/practitioners/graduated-support-pathway/
How will we monitor your child’s progress?
All our SEND support fits into a four-part cycle called Assess, Plan, Do, Review.
- Assess: We decide what the child’s needs are.
- Plan: We set targets. We decide how we support the child to meet these targets.
- Do: Everyone follows the plans we’ve agreed.
- Review: We look at how well the plans worked. We agree what to do next.
We will monitor your child for at least half a term before discussing next steps regarding the support required for your child moving forwards. However, sometimes this timescale is shorter (e.g. we are working on an important safety target or because the child is very young and is changing quickly).
Each cycle takes one school term and there are three cycles per year.