Noah's Ark Nursery Group

Experience of including people with special educational needs and disabilities

Noah's Ark Nursery Group aims to have regard to the Code of Practice 2014 on Special Educational Needs and Disability together with the Equality Act 2010. We provide a warm welcome to all children with appropriate play and learning opportunities in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage.

We will consult with parents as to how best we can meet their child's individual needs and if necessary seek funding to provide appropriate resources and support to enable the child to participate fully in the learning and play opportunities within our group. With parental consent, we will also liaise with outside agencies and professionals to ensure that our provision is effective in meeting the individual needs of the child.

If we feel that a child is having difficulties and is not making adequate progress we will always consult with the parents. Early identification of difficulties is essential and with parent and child input enables us to provide differentiated activities to meet the child's needs through the use of a range of strategies.

All children’s' progress is observed, monitored and recorded and the child's keyperson will consult with our Special Educational Needs & Disabilities Co-Ordinator (SENDCO) so that appropriate developmental and learning targets can be set. Progress on these personalised plans are reviewed, amended and shared with parents on a regular basis so that parents may contribute to their own child's plan and future learning.

Our SENDCO is Nadia Andow-PERRY who is an Accredited SENDCO. She monitors the needs and progress of children with special educational needs and disability, and also monitors the effectiveness of our provision to ensure we are meeting the needs of children with special educational needs and disability.

 

All knowledge gained from attending training is used to inform our practice and is disseminated to all staff. It ensures that we are also kept up-to-date of any changes.

• Staff have experience of dealing with:
• Autistic Spectrum Disorder
• Global Learning Development Delay
• Hearing Impairment
• Treacher Collins Syndrome 
• Challenging Behaviour
• Cerebral Palsy
• Dyspraxia
• Speech, Language and Communication difficulties
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• English As an Additional Language
• Health Conditions including Diabetes, Haemophilia, Severe Asthma, Eczema

Our sessions are held in a large spacious hall, on one level with disabled access, disabled toilet facilities and has Hearing Induction Loop installed. To enable free flow access directly from the hall to our outside area we would make reasonable adjustments, providing ramps and would seek funding to support this (there is wheelchair access to the outside area from the room adjoining the hall)

All children have the right to play (UN Convention on the Rights of a Child) and Noah's Ark Nursery Group's aim is for each child to experience success in their learning and play enabling them to reach their full potential.

Our Special Education Needs and Disability Policy has been reviewed in line with the new Government legislation which came into force September 2014 - SEND Code of Practice 2014 and The Children & Families Act 2014.

Contact

Nadia Andow-Perry

Telephone

07932504450

Email

noahsarkbures@gmail.com

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