General
The SEN information report
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Springwater School - The Local Offer |
VISION |
All pupils access outstanding specialist teaching and facilities personalized to their individual learning needs, within a happy, confident, proud, and growing school. Pupils make significant progress throughout their school career and make a successful transition to adulthood. |
MISSION |
To strive to create and continually develop an exciting and challenging curriculum tailored to each pupil in a safe learning environment with the use of specialized facilities and approaches. Teaching and learning focus on gaining key skills and, where possible, independence. Pupil health and well-being, and their right to a voice, are prioritized and placed at the center of all we aim to achieve. Our expert staff have high expectations for pupils and work in close partnership with pupils, their families/carers/key professionals and the local community to help pupils achieve their greatest potential. |
VALUES |
ASPIRE Achievement Empower all to achieve their full potential. Self-esteem/health + well-being To develop self-esteem, enabling confident, proud, and thriving individuals. Positivity Ensuring a vibrant, confident, proactive, and encouraging school culture. Inclusive and Collaborative A welcoming, inclusive, friendly, supportive, and culturally diverse community. Respect and Dignity Building respectful relationships in which all are treated with dignity. Enjoyment Creating fun, friendships, and enjoyable learning memories. |
ETHOS |
ACE Aspiring Challenging Empowering |
Which pupils attend Springwater School?
What kinds of Special Educational Need are provided for at Springwater School?
Where are the particular special educational needs of a child or young person identified?
How do we work with parents and carers?
Which agencies do we work with?
What specialist provision and equipment is available?
What transition arrangements are made? |
Pupils who attend Springwater School usually have an Education Health and Care Plan - identifying the need for a specialist setting such as ours. There are some pupils who attend on an assessment basis, usually a time limited period of several weeks. This may be the case where the nature of their needs are not yet clear, they do not yet have an Education Health and Care Plan or where they are moving into the area from a different country. The assessment placement is reviewed following the agreed period of weeks. This review will usually involve an Assessment and Reviewing Officer, school staff, the parents or carer and any other member of the multi-disciplinary team who have been involved in the assessment period.Springwater School is a Special School which caters for pupils aged 2 - 19 years. Pupils have severe, complex and multiple learning difficulties. We are always open to discussion about how we can meet the needs of a very wide range of learners including those with medical, physical and behavioural challenges associated with Autism. Most of the pupils have several over-lapping needs and the expert staff team and trained and supported to meet these needs on a daily basis. The Education Health and Care Plan identifies the needs of a pupil in each of these areas:
Pupils may attend full time or as a dual placement with their local mainstream school. |
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What is our approach to teaching/ learning and development of children and young people with special educational needs? |
The pupils at Springwater are all provided with personalised opportunities such as:
A large number of sports are offered which engage and include pupils with a variety of special needs. |
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How is additional learning support available to pupils? How do teachers know how well pupils are doing? |
An appropriate staffing to pupil ratio enables engagement and access for all pupils. Other professionals also provide advice and guidance to support this personalised learning including:
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How do we evaluate the effectiveness of special educational provision? |
Parents are involved through the Education, Health and Care Plan review meetings and this provides the forum for discussion about provision. This is reviewed in terms of what the school (and others) has provided for the needs of the pupil and how effective this is. The focus of these meeting is 'What is going well?', 'What is not going well?'. Adjustments to provision can be prompted through this process. |
How do we provide accessible facilities? |
Springwater School endeavours to pursue the principles of inclusion at all times by providing all pupils with an education that allows for them to achieve, progress and be happy. Equality of Opportunity means that physical barriers are removed and adjustments made so that all pupils with a disability, (such as being a wheelchair user, experiencing sight or hearing impairment, or with sensory needs associated with Autism), can be supported to be in the school building accessing as wide a range of opportunities possible. Good staffing ratios enable access to a wide range of activities and facilities. School has use of a minibus which allows wheelchair access. Some staff are MIDAS trained so they can drive the minibuses to enable community experiences to be accessed easily. |
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How are the staff at Springwater trained to support pupils with Special Educational Needs?
How are the social and emotional needs of each pupil met? |
There is a regular induction programme which is offered at the point staff start at shcool. This is regardless of job role.
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NYCC LA Local offer: http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/article/23542/SEND---local-offer
York local offer: http://www.yor-ok.org.uk/families/Local%20Offer/local-offer-original.htm
Leeds City Local offer: https://www.leeds.gov.uk/residents/children-families-and-carers/local-offer/leeds-local-offer/special-educational-needs-disability
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Welcome to Springwater School.
We are a vibrant special school based in Harrogate which catering for students aged 2 - 19 years old.
We offer places to children and young people with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD), severe learning difficulties (SLD) or physical difficulties (PD). Whilst many of our wonderful students have co-occurring needs, we are also highly skilled in supporting autistic children and young people to flourish and achieve.
Our student community attend from across North Yorkshire and neighbouring areas and authorities. We pride ourselves in being a warm and welcoming school that works closely with parents, carers and multidisciplinary teams to provide excellent educational provision for our wider community.
If you wish to progress your interest in Springwater School, please either call our Office on 01423 883214 to arrange a visit or fill in the ‘Contact Us’ form on this website.
"Parents and carers are really pleased with the school. Their children are happy and are getting on well. One parent echoed the feelings of others, saying: ‘I cannot praise highly enough the way that Springwater supports, not only my child but myself as well, to help her cope with the challenges she faces every day.’"
- Ofsted 2019