St Leonard's Primary School is a fully inclusive school. We put the children at the heart of everything we do and celebrate our differences and value the individuality of all our pupils.  We are committed to giving all our children every opportunity to achieve the highest of standards. We do this by taking account of pupils' varied experiences and needs. We offer a broad and balanced curriculum, and have high expectations of all children. The achievements, attitudes and well-being of all our children matter. This policy is intended to help to ensure that this school promotes the individuality of all children, irrespective of ethnicity, religion, attainment, age, disability, gender or background.

 

St. Leonard’s aims to provide a safe and supportive environment for learning and development in which our children will be stimulated to achieve their full potential. We hope that our children will find their days in school enjoyable as well as challenging and that they will value their role in our vibrant school community, both now and in future years, when remembering their time with us. 

 

Our overall aim is to ensure that all children maximise and achieve their true potential both academically and socially by providing an education of the highest quality. In order to achieve this, we aim to support and develop our pupils in the following ways:

• by creating a ethos of care, understanding, mutual respect, understanding and  cooperation, throughout the whole school community and beyond, with everyone valued equally.
• by providing effective and stimulating teaching and interesting and enjoyable learning experiences which meet all of the requirements of the National Curriculum and which encourage children to be independent, lifelong learners;
• by creating a calm, secure, well-structured positive learning environment based on high expectations, where each child should be able to learn and each teacher can teach without interruption from others;
• by developing positive partnerships between home, school, church and community, with regular communication and dialogue;
• by regularly celebrating the work and successes of our school community, therefore raising self- esteem;
• by ensuring that everyone has an equal opportunity to attain their full potential, regardless of their  gender, faith, culture or ability.
• We aim to provide every child with access to a broad and balanced education. This includes the National Curriculum in line with the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice.

At St. Leonard’s Primary School we believe that our partnership with the parents is of vital importance. Parental anxieties can be eased through good communication with the school. The parent can then appreciate what the school is trying to do and can support and extend work being  done in school by a variety of methods. The school will always ensure that parents are kept aware of the progress of their child through all Stages of the special needs procedure.

The SENCO is Mrs Claire Callaghan.

 

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