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Consultation meeting: P roposal to open a specialist resourced provision for deaf and hearing impaired children at Moor Allerton Hall Primary School. What is the specialist resourced provision for deaf and hearing impaired children?. Specialist provision in a mainstream school
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Consultation meeting:Proposal to open a specialist resourced provision for deaf and hearing impaired children at Moor Allerton Hall Primary School
What is the specialist resourced provision for deaf and hearing impaired children? • Specialist provision in a mainstream school • For up to 14 severely or profoundly deaf children (approx. 2 per year group) from across Leeds • Provides specialist on-site input – Teachers of the Deaf, Communication Support Workers, Deaf Instructors • Allows for individualised blend of specialist and mainstream education • Provides hearing and deaf peers • Mainstream staff gain experience and knowledge in teaching deaf children
Who for? • Severely and profoundly deaf children reception to Y6 • Using BSL and/or spoken English • Require more specialist input than available in local mainstream • Have a statement of Special Educational Needs • Fill from reception/Y1 as far as possible
Who would be responsible? • On school roll like any other pupil • Shared responsibility with the Sensory Service • Specialist staff employed by Sensory Service, managed in partnership with school • Need to work together and share planning, training etc.
How would school staff work with deaf children? • On-going training and advice • In-class support • Joint planning • Pre-lesson teaching of children • Experience – growing from Reception
Why Moor Allerton Hall? • Ofsted category – “good” and report • Good track record for inclusion • Over 50% of children transfer to Allerton Grange High School • Proximity to AGHS • Positive response from governors and management • Building work is possible
What about the building? • Need an area for group and individual teaching • Need to improve acoustics • Need to set up soundfield systems
Some of the benefits to the school • Greater awareness of inclusion and diversity • Increase pupil awareness of others and empathy • Focus on language • Increase use of visual learning • Improve acoustics and sound quality for all • increase use of sign – link with Makaton • Excite hearing children in learning BSL • Enhance the standing of the school • Etc.
Who would pay for it all? • Building work – paid for by the Council • Specialist staff employed by Sensory Service • School would receive funding per pupil in the provision – currently £10,000 (£6,000 for SEN) per year • The provision would be “cost neutral” to the school.