Learning Support

Support for Additional Learning Needs

The Learning Support Team offers support to all students and actively seeks to promote their academic progress and emotional welfare throughout the school, years 7-13.  Currently we support students presenting difficulties in learning, across all subjects and through the medium of English and Welsh.

Students may either have a Statement outlining their Learning Support needs or are identified by colleagues in “mainstream” classes. Students are actively encouraged to self-refer and many do so.  There is also a partnership with parents who are invited to raise concerns.

We therefore offer a wide range of services. This includes supporting students with dyslexia, dyspraxia, autism, hearing and visual impairment, language and communication difficulties and general learning difficulties and also numeracy support needs. We work flexibly and in a highly structured way in order to deliver what we consider a service of the highest professional quality. It is considered of paramount importance that all students who access our service have an active role in their learning and are pro-active in negotiating their programmes of work. Many of our students access 6th form studies, with support, in order to prepare for university or other destinations. We place importance on all students developing their independent study skills and other complementary skills essential for adult life.

The current Learning Support Team  comprises: Learning Support Team Co-ordinator, one full-time teacher, Learning Support Assistants and part-time support from  teacher of the Vision Team, and Impaired Hearing Team.