Learning Support

The Learning Support Department aims to provide sympathetic support which is designed to meet each student’s needs and which takes into account the student’s own perception of difficulties. The staff are all experienced and well-qualified professionals in their field.

Individual tuition is offered to those pupils requiring support and, where necessary, in-class support is available. Multi-sensory teaching methods are employed to utilise every pathway for learning.

One of the most important functions of the department is to increase the self-confidence of those who feel themselves to be failing. In addition it is our aim to target areas of special difficulty and to enable students to experience success.

The School has due regard for the Code of Practice (2001); the DDA (2001); Every Child Matters (2003); The Children’s Act (2004) and The Equality Act 2010.

Learning Support Policy

Tring Park School provides a broad and balanced approach within a specialised curriculum for all students. The National Curriculum is the starting point for planning in conjunction with assessment that meets the specific needs of individuals and groups of children. When planning, teachers set significant challenges and responses to children’s diverse learning needs. A proportion of pupils have particular learning and assessment requirements that could create barriers to learning.

These requirements are likely to arise as a consequence of a student having learning difficulties. Teachers take account of these requirements and make provision, where necessary, to support individuals or groups of children and thus enable them to participate effectively in curriculum and assessment activities.

Students may have learning difficulties either throughout, or at any specific time during, their school career. The Learning Support Policy ensures that curriculum planning, teaching and assessment for children with learning difficulties, takes account of the type and extent of the difficulty experienced by the child.

Lessons

Support lessons are on a one-to-one basis with a qualified teacher and can be either an hour or half an hour per week. The school makes a charge for one-to-one lessons. Extra lessons are organised on a rotational basis. Pupils will have their lesson on the same day each week but it will be given at a different time in order to minimise the impact on any one subject. In addition to the extra lessons we have two full-time Learning Support Assistants who work alongside pupils from Years 4 - 11.

For a copy of the complete Learning Support Policy please contact the Head of Learning Support Dawn Sanders at dawn.sanders@tringpark.com or Tel. 01442 821685.