Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND)

Our Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator (SENDCO) is Mrs Hawksworth.  She can be contacted via the main school office email address: info@park-mead.surrey.sch.uk 

SEND information Report

Schools have been asked to provide answers to 14 questions to explain their procedures and provision in supporting pupils who have Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.

Schools are also asked to provide an outline of the support and interventions they are currently able to provide for all pupils (Wave 1), for those who may require some additional support (Wave 2), and those who require more specific, individual support (Wave 3 and 4).

This provides parents/carers with a great amount of information. We would, however, encourage you to make a visit to school to discuss the particular needs of your child.

•  Please click here for the Parents' Guide to Special Educational Needs and Disabilities at Park Mead 
•  Please click here to view the School's SEND information Report
•  Please click here to view the School's Provision Map at Wave 1,2 and 3 provision.
•  Please click here to view the Special Education Needs Policy.
•  Please click here to view the Accessibility Policy and Action Plan.

For information about Surrey County Council's Local Offer please click here.

For the SEN Code of Practice (2015) please click here.

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information Advice and Support Service or SENDIASS is a free, confidential and impartial service for parents and carers, children and young people (up to 25 years), please click here.

Useful SEND related resourcing:

Emotional Literacy:

Park Mead ELSA webpage: Please see our school's 'Emotional Literacy Support' webpage with lots resourcing and activities that will help your child if they are experiencing anxiety over the pandemic, or school closures. There are also links to download mindfulness colouring activities and ELSA games that will help with children who need to develop their self-esteem or emotional vocabulary and understanding. 

Newsround: A series of useful videos to help children understand the pandemic and why schools are closed right now. (Best for Key Stage 2 children). 

ELSA Support: This is a website designed specifically for ELSAs, but there is much free resourcing available that might be useful to parents during the period of school closures. The site can also be followed on Faceboook, where new and free resourcing is often shared. 

Speech and Language:

Supporting your child's receptive language: (Primary Age from Surrey SaLT): An information and training booklet on what receptive language is and how to develop this in your child. Lots of practical activities to use and links to relevant websites. 

Phonics & Literacy: 

Here is a link to the parents support page on Little Wandle: https://www.littlewandle.org.uk/resources/for-parents/ 

It is very important when reading with your child that both you, and they, are using the accurate phonemes for single letter and double letter (digraph) sounds in order to fluently decode unfamiliar words. This video is useful in modelling how to do this. 

Phonological Awareness support pack (From Surrey SaLT team): An information and training booklet specifically for Early Years and Key Stage 1. The booklet explains how to develop phonological awareness in your child with lots of activities to develop speech sounds and phonics. 

BookTrust: Interactive e-books and stories for Key Stage 1 children. 

Physical and Sensory Needs: 

Fine Motor Activities: Cutting: Images and descriptions of a range of easy to resource cutting activities to develop fine motor control in young children or a child with fine motor control difficulties. 

Fine Motor Activities: Pegs: Images and descriptions of a range of easy to resource pegging activities to develop fine motor control in young children or a child with fine motor control difficulties.