Additional Learning Needs Introduction

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Pupils have different strengths and skills, particular needs and areas for development. Some pupils show academic ability early and need to be encouraged and appropriately challenged.  Others need more time or assistance to develop their skills in reading, spelling or  mathematics or their emotional health and wellbeing.

All areas of school life are inclusive and the teaching is tailored towards individual learning providing challenge and support in order for everyone to reach their full potential. Staff provide a positive ethos to enable the children to work towards the development of ‘life skills’ and instil lifelong learning aspirations for everyone through a range of activities which are fun and enjoyable.

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From September 2021, the school will be working to the definition of additional learning as identified in the Additional Learning Needs Code for Wales 2021:

(1) A person has additional learning needs if he or she has a learning difficulty or disability (whether the learning difficulty or disability arises from a medical condition or otherwise) which calls for additional learning provision. 

(2) A child of compulsory school age or person over that age has a learning difficulty or disability if he or she— (a) has a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age, or (b) has a disability for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010 which prevents or hinders him or her from making use of facilities for education or training of a kind generally provided for others of the same age in mainstream maintained schools or mainstream institutions in the further education sector. 

(3) A child under compulsory school age has a learning difficulty or disability if he or she is or would be if no additional learning provision were made, likely to be within subsection (2) when of compulsory school age. 

(4) A person does not have a learning difficulty or disability solely because the language (or form of language) in which he or she is or will be taught is different from a language (or form of language) which is or has been used at home

 

Any child who is identified as having additional learning needs will be provided with additional learning provision. This is identified as:

(1) “Additional learning provision” for a person aged three or over means educational or training provision that is additional to, or different from, that made generally for others of the same age in— (a) mainstream maintained schools in Wales, (b) mainstream institutions in the further education sector in Wales, or (c) places in Wales at which nursery education is provided. 

(2) “Additional learning provision” for a child aged under three means educational provision of any kind. 

(3) In subsection (1), “nursery education” means education suitable for a child who has attained the age of three but is under compulsory school age. 

 

LN Information

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