My child has sensory and/or physical needs

This covers children who have difficulties with:

• Vision
• Hearing
• Gross motor co-ordination
• Fine motor co-ordination
• It includes conditions such as dyspraxia, cerebral palsy and physical injury

Please see Speech Language and communication section for sensory issues related to ASD/ Asperger’s

What can Longshaw offer?

For all students at Longshaw

• Quality first teaching with appropriate differentiation through planning, organisation, delivery, task, outcome, support and resources
• Visual aids to support key vocabulary, concepts and themes
• Focused and modelled group work with teacher/TA/LSA eg. guided reading and writing
• Additional in class support from a TA
• Individual learning targets 
• Lunchtime homework club
• Flexible teaching arrangements 
• Medical support including school nurse
• Equipment eg sloping boards, pencil grips
• Modified worksheets

Support for targeted groups of children at Longshaw

• Additional motor skills groups
• Additional handwriting groups

Targeted individual support at Longshaw

• Touch typing
• Outreach support  work from Joseph Clark (visual impairment advisory teachers)
• Outreach support work from Whitefield ( hearing impairment advisory teachers)
• Support from occupational therapy and 1 : 1 programmes
• Support from physiotherapist
• 1 to 1 support in class and at break times
• Access arrangements for KS2 SATs