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The Learning Support Department
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| Aims & Objectives |
Crowstone Preparatory School seeks to maximise
the potential of all our pupils, whatever their
ability level. To achieve this, we aim to identify
any children with learning difficulties as early as
possible. The Learning Support Department works
closely with all teaching staff, from Early Years
upwards. The teaching staff will identify any pupils
experiencing difficulty with any aspect of literacy
or numeracy. Strategies will be developed and put in
place in the classroom to support the child. Within
our small class groups, the class teacher can give
individual support across the curriculum. Further to
this the Learning Support Department will offer
individual, one to one, instruction to each pupil to
develop literacy and numeracy skills.
We firmly believe that pupils need to read with
fluency and confidence to access the world of
learning. We will use standardised reading and
phonic diagnostic tests where necessary to plan
learning programmes for each child. Pupils will be
set targets through Individual Educational Plans;
these IEPs will be regularly reviewed. We promise to
listen to the concerns of both the parent and the
child and to act on these concerns.
The Learning Support Staff are also qualified to
work with children diagnosed as dyslexic and we have
ample resources and teaching programmes recommended
by Dyslexia Action. Our students make sound progress
and gain in self-esteem as they succeed in their
studies.
We welcome enquiries from parents whose child may
have been diagnosed as having learning difficulties or
from those parents who feel their child is not
progressing sufficiently in their present school. |
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