Welcome to the Support for Learning Department

Who are we?

• L Moreland Depute Head Teacher Support for Learning
• K Scott Principal Teacher Support for Learning (Acting)
• A Burn Additional Support Needs Assistant
• L Clarke Additional Support Needs Assistant
• K Leitch Additional Support Needs Assistant
• I McGregor Additional Support Needs Assistant
• C McPhedran Additional Support Needs Assistant
• L McVay Additional Support Needs Assistant
• L Reid Additional Support Needs Assistant

The department is also supported in its work through the efforts of external agencies and partnerships, including English as an Additional Language Support, Hearing Impairment Teacher, Visual Impairment Teacher, SAM’s (Support by Assistive Media Group) and NHS Lanarkshire visiting specialists.

What do we do?

The aim of the Support for Learning Department is to provide education for every pupil through our awareness and understanding of:

• the diverse range of pupils’ learning needs;
• the process by which we identify these needs; and
• the procedures we adopt to meet these needs.

The Support for Learning Department has five specific roles:

• Consultancy
• Cooperative teaching
• Staff development
• Individual/Group tuition
• Liaison with other agencies

All children and young people need support to help them learn. Through high quality learning and teaching, staff in schools are able to meet a diverse range of needs without additional support.

Some children and young people will require support which is additional to, or different from, that received by their peers to ensure that they benefit from education.

Additional support needs can be due to:

• Disability or health
• Learning environment
• Family circumstances
• Social and emotional factors

It is accepted that the best way of achieving the school aim of supporting all pupils to achieve their potential is to take a varied and flexible approach to learning.

Support may be provided on a long or short term basis depending on the needs identified. This includes staff involvement within the classroom, extraction from the classroom to work in one-to-one and small group tutorials within the department or the provision of an alternative course of study. In addition to this, staff develop suitable course materials and provide strategies to remove barriers and maximise learning. This is a very important form of support for your child although in this case a classroom presence is not seen.

The department provides alternative learning materials and aids, such as IT equipment to support reading and writing, adapted texts to support young people with visual impairments and visual to support pupils with ASD.

The department also provides additional assessment arrangements for internal assessments and external exams.

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