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Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

Northstowe Learning Community is committed and passionate about ensuring ‘Achievement for All’, by setting high aspirations and providing a high quality teaching and learning environment for all students. However, we acknowledge that some students require additional support, for part or all of their time with us, to enable them to reach their full potential.

All of the adults working in our schools support children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities to overcome their barriers and thrive and school. Additionally, we have dedicated teams to oversee and provide additional support, as detailed below.

Northstowe Secondary College and Sixth Form

Support Inclusion Base: the NEST

The SEND team at Northstowe Secondary College is based in the NEST (Northstowe Education Support Team). This is located on the top floor next to the Science department.

SEND Team
SENDCO: Nicola Nevin
Assistant SENDCOs: Susannah Collison and Paula Dopadlik
SEND Administrator: Anne Altarelli
Teaching Assistants: Yasmin Burgess, Laua Efthymiou, Esther Fung, Laura Kalu, Kamile Kurt, Quin O’Sullivan, Chloe Summers, Lisa Veit

For any SEND enquiries at Northstowe Secondary College and Sixth Form, please contact: NEST@northtowe.education

Northstowe Primary School

Headteacher: Nina Burton
Assistant SENDCO: Hannah Perry
Teaching Assistants: Ruth Aremu, Rebecca Blythe, Ellie Coltman, Priya Kadam, Matthew Long, Solmaz Yazdan Karimi

For any SEND enquiries at Northstowe Primary School, please contact: PrimarySEND@northstowe.education

The following part of this website is to assist parents, carers and students in finding information about special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

SEND Academy councillor

Sarah Hodge
Contact: AcademyCouncil@gov.nothstowe.education

Local Offer

The SEN and Disability Local Offer describes what help, support and services are available for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and their families in Cambridgeshire.

It will:

• Include information about education, social care and health services, as well as services provided by voluntary and community groups
• Provide information about services for children and young people with Education, Health and Care Plans, as well as those without
• Set out clearly the criteria for getting support
• Be published on the internet, as well as be available in other formats on request

Cambridgeshire Local Offer provides everything you need to know about Education, Social Care, Health, information on parent support and activities for Children and young people (0-25 with a Special Educational Need and/or Disability) and their families.

Cambridgeshire Local Authority also provide support for families of children with SEND through the following forums:
SENDIASS
Pinpoint

Educational, Health Care Plans (EHCP)

Most children and young people’s Special Educational Needs and Disabilities can be supported through our universal offer of High Quality Inclusive Teaching and pastoral support, with interventions to target specific aspects of learning where needed. For a small number of children and young people with significant and long-term complex educational needs that cannot be met by this ordinarily available support, an EHCP may be considered. This is a legal document, put in place and monitored by the Local Authority. An EHCP can only be issued when Cambridgeshire Local Authority (LA) determines a child or young person needs the additional support of an EHCP after an Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment (EHCNA) has been carried out.  

For more information about EHC Plans, please visit this section of the Cambridgeshire Local Offer: Cambridgeshire Online | Education Health Care (EHC) Plans

Northstowe Secondary College SEND Information Report

As per the SEND Code of Practice (Section 6.79), academies must publish information about their arrangements for identifying, assessing and making provision available for pupils with SEND. Northstowe Secondary College’s information report can be found below:

Ordinarily Available Provision

At Northstowe Secondary College we endeavour to meet the needs of any young person with special educational needs and/or disability. As part of this we have a universal offer to students and this is outlined in our Ordinarily Available Provision document below.  

You can also click on the SEND OAP Toolkit link, which will take you to the Local Authority’s website designed to support and inform parents.

SEND OAP Toolkit – Learn Together (cambslearntogether.co.uk)

SEND Policies and Procedures

All of our policies, including our SEND policies, can be found on our Policies and Statutory Information page. The Meridian Trust SEND policy can be found here: Meridian Trust SEND Policy 25/26