Our vision is to empower students with special educational needs and disabilities to access all school opportunities, providing support where needed, celebrating their strengths and differences, and setting them up for success in adulthood.
The school’s SENDCo is Catherine Hill, Assistant Principal. She particularly works on transition from Year 6 and with students in Years 7, 8, 10 and 12.
The Deputy SENDCo is Hani Baluch – she focusses on students in Years 9, 11 and 13.
SEND Manager Annie Phillipson works with key students in all year groups on self-regulation, self-efficacy and developing independence.
Hannah Tracey is a Level 7 Qualified Assessor and works to identify students’ needs and support staff in ensuring lessons are accessible for all.
Our team of highly skilled Learning Coaches specialise in the school’s main additional needs, developing expertise in the needs of particular groups of students and coordinating with teachers to refine their classroom provision so that it is fully accessible for those students and so that students with that need can flourish and achieve their ambitions.
Our brand new Sensory Room opened in 2024, providing a calming rest area for children to have some time to themselves. Interactive sensory rooms can help to engage withdrawn individuals, and auditory sensory equipment can be especially helpful in encouraging students with communication difficulties.
We work closely with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in coordinating our provision for students. To find out more about the SEND Local Offer, please click here.
Public examinations are a vital way in which students can realise their ambitions and progress to the next steps in their future, so it is important that all students are set up for success in these examinations and appropriately equipped to achieve their best. Wherever possible, and in line with the SEN Code of Practice, reasonable steps are taken to allow equal opportunity for all.
Here is a list of the main access arrangements and what they mean:
Please see the linked information for EAA – including a form for parent referrals.
EAA Important Info for Parents.
Key dates in the SEND calendar:
Parents/carers of students with SEND are warmly invited to join us for an informal coffee morning to meet with school staff, external professionals and other parents.
SEND trips:
There are four key areas of need – please click for support and resources linked to these areas.
Cognition and Learning – includes needs relating to pace and specific learning difficulties including dyslexia, dyscalculia and dyspraxia.
Communication and Interaction – includes speech, language and communication needs, difficulty understanding social rules and conveying wants, and autism.
Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) – includes attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) or attachment disorder, along with issues associated with underlying mental health issues.
Sensory and Physical – includes physical disabilities such as vision impairment (VI), hearing impairment (HI) or a multi-sensory impairment (MSI) as well as muscular and movement disorders.
Universal – for all students
Targeted strategies
Reading and literacy interventions:
Neurodiversity Learning Coach interventions:
Regulation strategies:
Speech and language interventions:
Specialist provision
Implementation and coordination of specialist provision funded by EHCPs:
If you think your child would benefit from any of our support interventions please contact Catherine Hill, Assistant Principal and SENDCo, in the first instance.
We understand that transition to secondary school can be an anxious time for all students, but particularly those with special educational needs and disabilities.
We work closely with feeder schools, students and parents to share information, offer reassurance, and create opportunities for acclimatisation to the secondary school environment in a managed, non-threatening way.
We recommend: Starting secondary school - BBC Parents' Toolkit - BBC Bitesize
For students with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP), during your Year 5 Annual Review you will be asked to select schools where you have a preference for your child to attend in Year 7. To help you with your decision-making process, we run two coffee mornings for prospective parents where we will give a short presentation on the SEND provision of Holland Park School, and invite you to have a tour of the school. For 2024 our dates are:
For vulnerable students with SEND, we run a four-week transition programme in afternoons in the summer term, which includes orientation activities, a chance to meet with key members of staff and support workers, acclimatisation to important school spaces such as the Dining Hall and playground areas, and discussions with current pupils. Catherine Hill will be in touch with the SENDCo at your child’s primary school to make arrangements for this programme. The dates for these are:
As part of the usual transition programme for all Year 6-7 students, we run a Taster Day every year – this is on Wednesday 3rd July this academic year. For our SEND students and any further identified vulnerable students from primary school, we offer an additional SEND Taster Morning the day before from 9-11.30am on Tuesday 2nd July. This supports students who may be feeling nervous about meeting everyone on the Taster Day to meet in a smaller group and get to know the key support systems in the school ahead of time.
Transition page
Assess:
Plan:
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Review:
To contact the school’s SEND team, please email info@hollandparkschool.co.uk with the name of the staff member you wish to contact included in the subject line.
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