Learning Support

Many pupils at Quorn Hall School have experienced significant disruption in their learning and are working below age related expectations in most subject areas. Pupils at Quorn Hall School may have additional learning needs and comorbid diagnoses.

All pupils at Quorn Hall School have an Educational Health and Care Plan (EHCP) detailing their Special Educational Needs. The SEN team ensure that the needs detailed in a pupils' plan are met within our provision.

All pupils have access to a range of classroom strategies, styles and aids to support their learning. Our classrooms support pupils executive functioning skills (skills in organisation, memory, starting and finishing a task). Displays are used to support pupil learning whilst providing a therapeutic learning environment.

For those pupils requiring support in recording and presenting information, we use a range of strategies such as the readers, scribes, assistive technology (for example Read and Write on Chrome books), word processing, prompts and learning breaks. We further have the capacity to use standardised testing to identify further individual learning needs that have been noticed within learning environments. Support that has been identified as a pupils' “normal way of working” is collated as evidence in the application for access arrangements in Y10 and 11 to provide the reasonable adjustments to make exams accessible for every pupils needs.

Pupils also have access to a range of interventions around social and emotional communication. We have staff trained in a range of communication strategies, and pupils can receive a ‘boost’ using the ‘talkit’ programme. Pupils with speech language and communication needs are supported by highly experienced staff and can be supported using Makaton, PECs or assistive technology as recommended by external professionals. We have staff who can deliver Speech and Language programmes that have been created by a Speech and Language Therapist (SaLT). Pupils are supported with their emotional literacy with interventions and support programmes with experienced and qualified staff.

Pupils with sensory needs are given sensory aids and breaks tailored to their needs. We have staff who can deliver sensory integration programmes that have been created by an Occupational Therapist (OT).

If required, additional assessment from SaLT and OT can be arranged within school. There is also consultancy access from an Educational Psychologist within the Cavendish Group.