SEND Information - Parkside Community School

Important Communication Update – Moving Away from Text Messages

After February half term, the school will no longer use text messages as part of our communication system.

We will move fully to email and the Arbor platform for all routine messages, updates, and notifications.

Please ensure we have your most up-to-date email address.

If you need to check or update your contact details, please contact the school office at your earliest convenience.

Parkside Community School’s Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) provision is part of the Derbyshire Local Offer for secondary schools. The Derbyshire Local Offer website contains information for young people and children with SEND, families and professionals and can be located at https://localoffer.derbyshire.gov.uk/

Aims of Parkside Community School’s SEND provision

Parkside Community School aims to achieve the following:

To support students to care about the choices that impact their future.
To ensure full entitlement and access for SEN students to high quality education within a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum, so they can reach their full potential and enhance their self‐esteem.
To educate students, wherever possible alongside their peers within normal curriculum of mainstream school taking into account the wishes of parents and child. Sometimes it will be necessary to dis‐apply students from the national curriculum to provide an alternative curriculum or to give them time‐out to rest or consolidate learning in other areas.
To stimulate and/or maintain student curiosity, interest and enjoyment in their own education.
To enable SEN students to be familiar with a body of knowledge, skills, principles and vocabulary in order for them to lead full and productive lives. The curriculum must be broad to promote intellectual, emotional, social and physical development in order that students can develop as valuable members of society both now and in the future.
To identify and assess students with SEN as early and as thoroughly as is possible in order to implement appropriate interventions.
To fully involve parents and students in the identification, assessment and delivery of SEN and to strive for close co‐operation between all services concerned.
To meet the needs of all students who have been identified as having SEN by offering continual and appropriate forms of educational provision by the most efficient use of all available resources.

Objectives of Parkside Community School’s SEND provision

To enable students to achieve their full potential, both academically and socially.
To ensure that every student has equal care and attention, regardless of gender, race, social background, physical disability or ability.
To recognise that every student has a variety of needs ‐ some of which will be shared with other students, some of which will be specific to that student, some needs will be of a temporary nature ‐ others may be long term.
To ensure that every student has the opportunity to study a broad, balanced curriculum and has access to the National Curriculum at his/her own level.
To provide for the needs of all students, as far as resources will allow.

For further information relating to our SEND provision please read the following documents:

SEND Information Report

SEND Accessibility Plan

SEND Policy

Young person’s frequently asked questions