Many students who need adjustments over and above Quality Differentiated Teaching will have an IEP (Individual Education Plan). These are still being fine-tuned to ensure they capture just what the teacher needs to do to enable each child to access the curriculum on the SAME BASIS as others. They are dynamic documents which means they are always evolving and changing as they are monitored and reviewed frequently. The definition of a disability is broad and includes physical, intellectual, psychiatric, sensory, neurological, learning disabilities, and disease causing mechanisms. It also covers a disability that people have now, may have in the future and are believed to have. These IEPs will be discussed at Learning Conversations.
We have a number of students who have been selected to be involved in the LAP (Learning Assistance Program) and not enough adult volunteers (tutors) to support them. If you have 30 minutes a week to take a student under your wing to support them doing fun things like making, baking, ‘shooting’ baskets, catching or reading we would love to have you help out. Our LAP tutors find it really rewarding and some come back year after year. Please see Janet, Emily or Nicola at the Front Office who can help you get started.
May the next fortnight go well.
Kathy