Special Needs Education
The School’s Special Educational Needs policy and practice closely follow the DfES Code of Practice.  Children with an identified learning difficulty are monitored by the School’s Special Needs Co-ordinator who, together with the Class teacher, will formulate a programme tailored to the individual.  In addition, a wide range of outside agencies are engaged to support individual children as appropriate.

Accessibility Plan
Although Christopher Rawlins School is built on two levels with access between levels by steps, there is easy access to both levels from outside. All doors are wide enough to allow a wheel chair to pass. Recent refurbishments have included enhanced disabled toilet facilities.

The school pays heed to the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and included in the School Development Plan are plans, where and when applicable, for:

• Increasing the extent to which disabled children can engage in the school curriculum.
• Improving the physical environment of the school to increase disabled pupils’ physical access to education and extra curricular activities.
• Improving the delivery of information to disabled children, using formats which give pupils better access to information.

Staff are also regularly updated on the implications of the DDA and the National Curriculum Inclusion Statements i.e.

• Setting suitable Learning challenges
• Responding to pupils’ diverse Learning needs
• Overcoming potential barriers to Learning and assessment for individuals and groups of pupils.