This is an improved text messaging system – and you can help the school to save money. From time to time, we send information to parents via text message to your mobile phone. A new, free, smartphone app for parents is now available for download called ‘School Gateway’ for Apple (iPhone 3GS or later, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android (2.3 / Gingerbread or later) devices.

Please download this app to your phone (it’s free) as it will help us improve communication with parents – and save the school money. The set-up process is simple and will take no more than a couple of minutes:

1. Search for “School Gateway” in the Apple App Store/Google Play or on your phone go to www.schoolgateway.com/apple (Apple) or www.schoolgateway.com/android (Android)

2. Install the app, and if you are asked say yes to “Allow Push Notifications”

3. When you launch School Gateway for the first time, please select ‘New User’ and enter the email address and mobile telephone number you have registered with the school

4. The system will send a PIN code to your phone; please enter this PIN code and the app will be activated for you. As soon as you’ve got the system set-up, all of the text messages we send you will appear in the app; you’ll receive notifications/alerts as normal. If you’ve recently changed your email address or mobile telephone number, please let us know so we can update our records. From April, we will no longer send hard copies of general correspondence. The school is going digital!! Correspondence will be emailed directly to you and is available to download from the school website.

Pupils with SEND are enabled to engage in activities available with other pupils in the school who do not have SEND, this will include:

• Support to access clubs during or after school
• Arrangements re: day /residential trips

Extra Curricular activities offered by the SEND Department:

• Lunch Club – We meet daily to help encourage appropriate interaction between peers, this is achieved through games (board games, Uno, Scrabble, Wii) and social activities such as origami. This is also a chance to do homework with support from the SEND team.

Please contact the Form Tutor or SENDCos if you have any concerns.

Supporting pupils in moving between phases of education and in preparing for adulthood:
As pupils prepare for adulthood, outcomes should reflect their ambitions, which could include higher education, employment, independent living and participation in society. At Edward Peake we facilitate this transition in the following ways:

• Transition arrangements
• Enhanced Transition packages
• Information sharing SENDCo to SENDCo
• TAC meetings
• LA involvement
• CAFs
• Career investigations in PSHCE (Year 8)

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Cognition and Learning	Communication and Learning
Sensory and/or Physical Difficulties	Social, Emotional and Mental Health

As well as the pastoral support offered by our team of Class teachers and Heads of Year. The SEND Department is committed to improving emotional and social development. This includes extra pastoral support arrangements for listening to the views of pupils with SEND and measures to prevent bullying.

Some of the following may be involved:

• School ethos re: Values
• Pastoral contacts
• Mentoring schemes – SMILE which promotes Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being.
• Support for unstructured times
• Mrs. Jeni Rowley – Family Support Worker
• Counselling provision
• CAMHS
• CHUMS
• CDC
• TAC meetings
• CBC SEND Parent and Young Person Partnership Service
• Achievement for All (AfA)
• Student surveys
• Parent surveys

At Edward Peake we have the following expertise and training:

• Specific staff qualifications/training for ASD, Speech and Language and SPLD e.g. dyslexia, SMILE mentors, AfA, Fresh Start, Catch Up Numeracy and Literacy, Toe by Toe
• SENDCos
• Family Support Worker

In addition we secure:

• Links with external professionals –Educational Psychologist /CAMHS / Paediatrician /Sensory Impairment Team/ASD outreach worker
• School nurse
• LA SEND contact
• Commissioned Counsellors
• Multi-agency meetings when required
• Care Plan arrangements

Identifying and Assessing Needs

• Information provided by SENDCo from previous schools
• Meeting with Parents
• Teachers Assessments
• SEN Assessments:Liaison with LA specialists
  • NARA reading test
  • Aston Index language difficulties tests
  • CAT’s tests
  • MAT
  • Bradley and Bryant
  • Vernon list
  • BPVS
  • Fresh Start Assessment

• Liaison with outside Agencies (e.g. CAMH, CDC, CHUMS)