St Peter's Catholic
Primary School
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14. Glossary of terms
- Access arrangements – special arrangements to allow pupils with SEN to access assessments or exams
- Annual review – an annual meeting to review the provision in a pupil’s EHC plan
- Area of need – the 4 areas of need describe different types of needs a pupil with SEN can have. The 4 areas are communication and interaction; cognition and learning; physical and/or sensory; and social, emotional and mental health needs
- CAMHS – child and adolescent mental health services
- Differentiation – when teachers adapt how they teach in response to a pupil’s needs
- EHC needs assessment – the needs assessment is the first step on the way to securing an EHC plan. The local authority will do an assessment to decide whether a child needs an EHC plan
- EHC plan – an education, health and care (EHC) plan is a legally-binding document that sets out a child’s needs and the provision that will be put in place to meet their needs
- First-tier tribunal / SEND tribunal – a court where you can appeal against the local authority’s decisions about EHC needs assessments or plans and against discrimination by a school or local authority due to SEN
- Graduated approach – an approach to providing SEN support in which the school provides support in successive cycles of assessing the pupil’s needs, planning the provision, implementing the plan, and reviewing the impact of the action on the pupil
- Intervention – a short-term, targeted approach to teaching a pupil with a specific outcome in mind
- Local offer – information provided by the local authority that explains what services and support are on offer for pupils with SEN in the local area
- Outcome – target for improvement for pupils with SEN. These targets don't necessarily have to be related to academic attainment
- Reasonable adjustments – changes that the school must make to remove or reduce any disadvantages caused by a child’s disability
- SENCO – the special educational needs co-ordinator
- SEN – special educational needs
- SEND – special educational needs and disabilities
- SEND Code of Practice – the statutory guidance that schools must follow to support children with SEND
- SEN information report – a report that schools must publish on their website, that explains how the school supports pupils with SEN
- SEN support – special educational provision that meets the needs of pupils with SEN
- Transition – when a pupil moves between years, phases, schools or institutions or life stages