Our Mission

“Enabling and nurturing every child’s potential through inclusion, support, and care.”

Our SEN Statement

At Welford on Avon Primary School, we are committed to creating an inclusive, happy, and stimulating environment where every child can thrive and reach their full potential. We identify, assess, and regularly review pupils’ special educational needs at the earliest opportunity, working in close partnership with parents and pupils throughout the process. All teachers understand that they are teachers of SEN, and we provide ongoing, high-quality CPD to ensure staff can meet a wide range of learning, emotional, and physical needs. Our provision includes carefully planned interventions, adaptations, and access to additional services such as private Speech and Language Therapy and Occupational Therapy.

Our Key Commitments

• Early Identification: Timely recognition and assessment of SEN needs.
• Inclusive Teaching: All teachers are teachers of SEN, ensuring high-quality, differentiated learning.
• Individual Education Plans (IEPs): Clear, measurable targets reviewed regularly with pupil and parent involvement.
• Strong Partnerships: Regular, meaningful communication with parents and pupils, including pupil voice.
• Specialist Support: Collaboration with external agencies and investment in private Speech and Language Therapy and Occupational Therapy.
• Robust Monitoring: Careful tracking of SEN progress and impact of interventions.
• Professional Development: Continuous CPD for staff to support all areas of need.

We are extremely proud of our SEND provision and our inclusive curriculum that enables children to achieve their best outcomes.

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How We Meet Our Children’s Needs

Welford on Avon School is an inclusive school where every child is recognised as an individual with needs and aspirations. We are committed to early identification, delivering targeted learning for all and ensuring that all pupils achieve their potential; personally, socially, emotionally and academically in all areas of the curriculum, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, social background, religion, physical ability or educational need.

At some point during their school life children may need additional help. Our first level of support will be our skilled class teachers, who are best placed to be aware of the needs of the child, planning activities, offering learning strategies, preparing timetables, delivering high quality lessons while continually assessing to enable children to progress and succeed.  The SENco team and teaching staff respond to children’s needs by using a range of carefully matched interventions.

These include:

Occasionally, a child in school may have more defined additional needs including

• Communication and Interaction
• Cognitive and Learning
• Behavioural, Emotionally and Social Development
• Sensory and/or Physical

For children with additional needs it is essential to work closely with the child’s parents / carers and where appropriate seek the views of the child. Through discussions with parents/carers / children at termly meetings, barriers to learning are identified and targeted interventions are agreed.

Provision may involve seeking the advice of external partnerships to help identify appropriate additional support.

Welford is supported by a number of external agencies, when required. These include:

• Educational Psychologists (EP)
• Speech and Language Therapists (SALT)
• Integrated Disability Services (IDS)
• Early Support Services (ESS)
• Family Information Services (FIS)
• RISE 
• Mental Health Schools Team
• Counselling Services –Lifespace, Mind, Relate, Hospice
• Heathy Futures (School Nursing Team)
• Occupational Health and Physiotherapy
• Specialist Teaching Service (STS)
• Pepper Therapy (SALT)
• Mentors

These services support and enable us to secure additional expertise.

For children with complex SEND, the frequency of such provision may result in the school applying for additional funding to support a child. Children with more pronounced needs have support in line with their Statement of Additional Learning Needs or their Education, Health and Care Plan.

SENCo Lead - Julie Leeman - head2058@welearn365.com