Communication and
interaction needs include:

• Understanding language
• Using language
• Understanding how to communicate socially with other people Conditions include: Specific Language Disorder, ASD/ASC (Autism), Asperger Syndrome, speech sound disorders/delay.
• Stammering – advice given to families about how to access support
  from outside agencies.

All GNSA students can access

• Access to assessment for screening and identification of significant needs.
• Quality First teaching with appropriate differentiation (including best SEND practice).
• Visual aids to support key vocabulary, concepts and themes through Widgit.
• Access to homework support clubs
• Counselling
• Assessments and referrals to
  external agencies and
  specialists#Peer support work
• Online classroom access to
  revisit learning

Targeted identified support offered to identified students
include

• Assessment and identification of language need and feedback to parents and staff.
• Small group sessions with a specialist teacher/Teaching Assistant/Speech and Language Therapist Modules include; vocabulary, inference and deduction and language building blocks.
• Individual Reading Programmes
• Infant Language Link
• Year 7 Catch up
• Alex Kelly Social Skills Group
• Lego Therapy
• ELKAN Speech and Language groups
• 1:1 session with a speech and language therapist.
• 1:1 sessions with other specialist staff in the school
• Extra curricula activities during lunch and after school
• Individual teaching assistant support in some mainstream
  lessons.
• On-going monitoring and regular feedback to parents and students (at least termly and including the Annual  Review).
• Exam access arrangements including Extra time, reader,
  scribe, use of laptop etc.
• Post 16 transition support.
• Counselling
• Individual Learning Plan accessible by parents through an online platform
• Picture Exchange Communication (PECs)
• Online tool to communicate concerns with Safeguarding team and Progress Leaders, ‘Toot Toot’
• Hillingdon SEND Advisory Service
• Hillingdon Educational Psychology Service

Cognition and learning
needs include:

• Reading and spelling
• Learning new information and concepts
• Working with numbers
• Working memory
• Concentration
• Students may have conditions such as Specific Learning Difficulties, dyslexia, general learning difficulties, AD(H)D, Fragile X, Down Syndrome.
• Students may present with difficulties that do not have a specific title
• Step by step instruction
• Smaller accessible tasks

All GNSA students can access

• Quality First teaching with appropriate differentiation (including best SEND practice).
• Visual aids to support key vocabulary, concepts and themes.
• Access to homework support clubs
• Reader Programme
• Access to assessment for identification of significant needs.
• Online classroom access to revisit learning
• Dedicated and caring staff who value all students regardless of ability

Targeted identified support offered to identified students
includes

• 1:1 identified support – specific tailored support for individual students.
• Small group lessons that focus on a range of literacy and comprehension needs.
• Additional adult support in lessons from trained and skilled Learning Support Assistants.
• Targeted lunch and after school clubs.
• Targeted reading interventions / Catch Up Programmes
• Precision Teaching / Pre-teaching opportunities
• External agencies support.
• A visit from an educational psychologist for further
  assessments and testing
• Access arrangements for students approaching exams
• Transition support for Year 11 students
• Additional support for choosing GCSE options
• Career Advisor’s support for appropriate pathways.
• Access to ICT to support and develop learning.
• Regular mentoring from key staff members.
• Withdrawal sessions with specialist staff.
• Exam access arrangements including Extra time, reader,
  scribe, use of laptop etc.
• Individual Learning Plans accessible by parents through an online platform
• Access to online programmes offering additional support and differentiation; SAM Learning, Mangahigh etc.
• Hillingdon SEND Advisory Service
• Hillingdon Educational Psychology Service

Social emotional and mental health needs include:

• Forming and maintaining relationships
• Bereavement
• Attitudes to attainmene.
• Attendance
• Self-esteem
• Life outside school

All GNSA students can access

• Quality First teaching with appropriate differentiation
• Access to homework support clubs
• Access to sports clubs
• Regular assemblies and form time dedicated to our moral purpose and social practices
• Sewa in line with the Academy’s Sikh Faith
• Access to assessment for identification of significant needs.
• Access to Educational
  Psychologist’s services
• Whole school Class-chart
  system.
• Behaviour management with consequence ladder and graduated response.
• Zones of Regulation

Targeted identified support offered to identified students includes

• Nurture Groups
• Progress Leader lunchtime drop-in
• Year 7 Catch-up support groups.
• Intervention groups (all years)- behaviour/social skills/self
  esteem/stress management.
• In-class support in some lessons.
• 1:1 adult / peer mentoring
• Season’s for Growth
• ELSA trained Learning Support Assistants
• Year 11 support with college applications and career paths.
• Regular access to designated member of Child Protection Team who has student wellbeing training.
• Outside agency input (e.g.. Educational Psychologist, Targeted Youth Support, CAMHS, Hillingdon Early Intervention Service.
• Flexible and modified timetables.
• In-class support for students at risk of exclusion.
• Personal Support Plan-support for students at risk of permanent exclusion.
• Support from Health and Social Care team/ school nurse.
• Child Looked After support.
• Alex Kelly Social Skills Group
• Lego Therapy
• Exam access arrangements including Extra time, reader, scribe, use of laptop etc.
• Counselling
• Individual Learning Plans accessible by parents through an online platform
• Online tool to communicate concerns with Safeguarding team and Progress Leaders, ‘Toot Toot’
• Hillingdon SEND Advisory Service
• Hillingdon Educational Psychology Service

Sensory and/or needs
include:

• Visual impairment
• Hearing impairment
• Gross motor co-ordination
• Fine motor co-ordination
• Mobility
• Personal and Intimate care
• Self-organisation for daily living
• It includes conditions such as cerebral palsy, physical injury, dyspraxia

All GNSA students can access

• Quality First teaching with appropriate differentiation
• Differentiated work using
• Braille note and tactile resources
• Access to assessment for identification of significant needs.
• Mobility training
• Visual aids to support key vocabulary, concepts and themes.
• Physical access to facilities in the Academy.
• Access to homework support clubs.
• Dedicated and caring staff
  who value all students
  regardless of ability
• Support from external
  agencies

Targeted identified support offered to identified students
includes

• Medical Care Plans.
• Handwriting /fine motor/keyboard skills training.
• Advice and information given from our qualified school nurse.
• Access to assistive technology, laptop, software, audio digital books and ChromeBooks.
• Additional adult support in lessons from trained and skilled Learning Support Assistants.
• Individual Learning Plans accessible by parents through an online platform
• On-going monitoring and regular feedback to parents and students (at least termly and including the Annual Review).
• 1:1 Outside Agency support from Advisory Teachers / specialists.
• Specialist equipment and materials, such as low vision aids and enlarged adapted resources.
• Differentiated Tactile resources and material in braille
• Targeted TA support for complex medical needs, including intimate care.
• Access personal care; including a track ceiling hoist.
• Exam access arrangements including Extra time, reader, scribe, use of laptop etc.
• Hillingdon SEND Advisory Service