EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT PROGRAMMES


SUPPORT FOR LEARNING


Sibford School’s Support for Learning department aims to remove barriers to learning through targeted, evidence based SEN support delivered by appropriately trained staff. The graduated support draws on a more detailed


approach, more frequent reviews and more specialist expertise in order to match interventions to the child, within the small group provision of a mainstream school. The groups in Support for Learning are usually


between 4-6 pupils although 1:1 provision is also in place and offered on a needs basis, the ‘need’ being determined by our SfL specialist teachers. The department’s provision is ‘in addition to and


different from’ (SEN Code of Practice 2014) that which is offered through the school’s curriculum. This sometimes means that specialist teachers re- enforce what is happening in subject lessons using a graduated approach with additional intervention to support what is offered in the normal classroom provision through quality first teaching. The SEN support is aligned to the pupil’s choices


of study at GCSE and may also involve advising subject teachers and parents to help support good pupil progress.


ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages)


This programme prepares the student, as appropriate, for either the Cambridge Preliminary English Test or First Certificate in English as a Foreign Language, or the Cambridge IGCSE in ESL. The examinations take place at the end of Year 11 and cover the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking.


The Cambridge exams take place In Oxford but the IGCSE exams are conducted in school.


General language work such as giving a short


talk, improving reading speeds, planning and presentation of written work and improving spoken English are integral to the course.


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