Inclusion and SEND

Inclusion Leads – Kelly Barham and Kevin Brewster
SENDCO – Kevin Brewster
Wider Inclusion Team – Jane Nguyen, Kirsty, Abigail and Jemima

Inclusion at Conway is led through a collaborative team approach. Although members of the team have named responsibilities, identifying need, planning provision and reviewing impact are shared across the Inclusion Team.

We know our children well and recognise that the range and complexity of needs across the school is increasing. Needs may relate to learning, SEND, communication, social and emotional development, behaviour, wellbeing or wider vulnerability, and are often interconnected.

Our central focus is to understand what is getting in the way of a child accessing learning successfully and what needs to be put in place to address that barrier.

An evolving approach

Our inclusion model is deliberately evolving and developing. We do not see this as a finished system. As we identify emerging needs, review what is working and understand our pupils more fully, we continue to strengthen and modify our provision.

We have expanded our Inclusion Team and are systematically developing structures that enable us to:

• identify needs across the school;
• build a clear picture of individual and whole-school patterns of need;
• match provision to those needs;
• review the impact of support; and
• adapt, extend or change provision where needed.

Our Inclusion, Vulnerability and Wellbeing (IVW) framework provides the structure for this work.

Tier 1 – Universal provision: high-quality teaching, classroom adaptations, routines and strategies that enable pupils to access learning.

Tier 2 – Targeted support: additional intervention, pastoral support and personalised strategies where universal provision alone is not sufficient.

Tier 3 – Specialist provision: highly personalised support for pupils with significant or complex needs, including specialist, multi-agency and EHCP provision where appropriate.

Children may move between tiers as their needs change.

We are currently using the IVW framework to systematically review pupils across the school, identify priorities and develop provision at each level. This is an ongoing cycle of identifying need, putting support in place, reviewing impact and modifying our response.

Kevin Brewster is Conway’s named SENCO and works alongside Kelly Barham and the wider Inclusion Team to oversee SEND provision. Parents and carers are involved in identifying needs, reviewing support and evaluating progress, with external specialists involved where appropriate.

Our aim is to ensure that we know our children, understand their needs and have a clear and systematic plan for responding to them. Our provision will continue to evolve as the needs of our pupils change and as we learn more about what has the greatest impact.

To see full details of The Royal Greenwich Local Offer, please click Children and young people with additional needs | Greenwich Community Directory

For our families that live within the borough of Bexley, you can find full details of your Local Offer here: https://www.bexleylocaloffer.uk