Monkton Wood Academy encourages all its students to aspire to and achieve their potential including those students with Special Educational Needs. We believe in offering an inclusive education for all students with access to mainstream lessons. We aim for all students to become confident, successful, and independent learners. As such, we treat every child and young person as an individual and make ‘reasonable adjustments’ in the context of the Code of Practice to promote maximum achievement and progress. We use a range of data, observations, and assessments to identify students who we feel may have additional learning needs. These may include literacy difficulties such as dyslexia, spelling difficulties, and processing speed. In addition to this, some students may have more complex needs and require a more comprehensive process of assessment and/or involvement from external professionals. All additional needs fall under the following four categories of need, although many students will have needs from more than one area:
