SEND

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

At Marine Academy Primary, we believe all children deserve the very best possible start and we aim to enrich the lives of all our pupils.

All children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) are welcome at Marine Academy Primary. Full support will be provided to each child who has SEND requirements with well thought out strategies to overcome any barriers to learning. Marine Academy Primary is a fully inclusive school providing an outstanding and caring education so all pupils can achieve their potential. The Academy has won a range of Inclusion and SEN Awards, including the Education Business Award for Inclusive Education 2015, highly accredited for Education Business Award for Inclusive Education 2016, GHP Social Care Award for Special Educational Needs Coordinator South West 2017, GHP Social Care Award for Excellence in Academic Special Educational Needs Management South West England in 2018 and 2019, winner of the SEN Inclusion Award at the Education Business Awards 2019 and nasen Primary Provision award 2019!

Parents/Carers are fully involved and the progress of children with SEND is monitored towards meeting specifically identified goals and targets.

The Inclusion Team (photographs of them are below) invite Parents/Carers to a monthly Conversation Café, which takes place the first Wednesday of every month. Members of the Inclusion Team are on hand to offer advice, give recommendations and answer any questions that Parents/Carers may have regarding the Special Educational Needs or wellbeing of their child.

The Academy uses specialist strategies, which include a strong commitment towards training and developing all teachers and Teaching Assistants in their understanding of SEN to ensure that everyone is a ‘teacher of SEN’.

Excellent care, guidance and support contributes significantly to pupils’ personal development to make them all feel safe and secure and make the best possible academic and personal progress. For further information about Dyslexia, please visit the Plymouth Dyslexia Best Practice Guidance. Additional information about services in Plymouth and the Plymouth Offer can be found by clicking here.

The Accessibility Plan for Marine Academy Primary and SEND School Information Report can be found below.