At Gloucester Academy we know that students may need different or additional support at specific times during their time in our school to successfully climb their mountain. Our school SENCO works closely with all teachers to identify needs early and assess which interventions or specialist support is required. We monitor progress following an internal Assess, Plan, Do, Review’ model to ensure support is appropriately pitched, targeted and personalised.

We know that support must be holistic and focus upon the whole child. This means that, alongside the academic intervention and support we provide, we also refer for support and interventions from the relevant professionals for the other areas of SEND such as social and emotional support, communication and Interaction support and physical disability support. We refer to experts within Gloucestershire ‘s Local offer to ensure that students receive the very best professional support outside of the schools’ teaching hours, ensuring we are able to continue to provide a broad and balanced curriculum for all our learners whilst having support in place to meet their wider needs.

Gloucester Academy offers a  KS3 and KS4 curriculum designed to support GCSE outcomes and progression to mainstream post 16 destinations at the end of KS4. Teachers know to adapt lessons and outcomes for the needs of individual students working within the curriculum offered by the school. As such, pupils with additional needs will receive the same high-quality teaching input from their class teacher at KS3 or KS4 level. This removes the need for SEND students to be educated separately or in small groups for their mainstream lessons within the school.

As with most secondary schools, our teaching staff are only qualified to deliver a KS3 and KS4 curriculum, When considering Gloucester Academy please be mindful that we have no alternative curriculum offer or resource base offering an alternative pathway within the school at this time.

The GLT SEND Policy, which applies to all Greenshaw schools, can be found here.

Mr K Sinden is SENDCO at Gloucester Academy.

He can be contacted via the school office or by email: SENDCO@gloucesteracademy.co.uk

Detailed below is a list of helpful links and information that we think might be of use to you if your child has any special educational needs. If you are aware of any other useful websites, please let us know and we will try to include a link to them.

• Specialist Education Services
• The National ADD Information and Support Service
• The Dyspraxia Foundation
• National Autistic Society
• Autism Independent UK
• Asperger's Support
• Tourette Syndrome (UK) Association
• British Dyslexia Association
• The British Epilepsy Association
• Royal Institute for the Blind
• OCD UK
• Gloucestershire Local Offer