Witamy w kościele św. Bernadety
Learn to love, love to learn
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
“At St Bernadette’s Catholic School, you will find us caring, hardworking and co-operative. We follow the ways of Jesus, using our talents and gifts to make our school special. We show respect to all and welcome you.”
At St Bernadette's School, in line with our Catholic ethos, we believe that all our children are individuals and unique. We constantly endeavour to meet the needs of every child in our care. We aim to develop children into confident and resilient learners, to develop a love of learning and to encourage them to explore opportunities to step outside of their comfort zone whilst not neglecting the need to develop wider life skills that they can use to underpin their future development.
St Bernadette’s Catholic Primary School currently has 597 children on role (May 2025). There are currently 135 children on SEND register with a range of needs. 10 children have an EHCP.
We offer three main levels of support – universal, targeted and specialist. All children with SEND get universal support through high-quality teaching and most will get targeted support. Those children and young people with more complex or severe needs will also have specialist support. If your child needs specialist provision, school staff will usually need to get specialist advice. This kind of support is usually given to children and young people with long-term complex needs and/or disabilities, often with an Education Health and care (EHC) plan.
SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITY
INFORMATION REPORT
At St Bernadette’s School, we support children with a variety of differing Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, and we pride ourselves on being a highly inclusive school with an ethos which encourages and celebrates diversity and difference.
Our approach to teaching children with SEND
At St Bernadette’s School, we offer smaller setting groups with a tailored curriculum and a focus on closing gaps in English and Maths skills in most year groups.
Teachers adapt their high-quality teaching to cater for their pupils’ needs and plan individual timetables where necessary. When appropriate, staff are deployed to give children additional interventions in small groups outside the classroom, or to provide one-to-one support.
We use the EEF guidance ‘Five-a-day’ and embed the key principles into all our lessons.
We use a range of strategies across our lessons to ensure we offer an inclusive approach to learning and allow all children to access the classroom environment.
We also seek advice and equipment from outside agencies as and when the need arises.