Supporting Children & Young People

Our SEND Information Report below – which is part of Durham County Council’s Local Offer – provides details about how we support children and young people with Special Educational Needs in our Academy.

“A child or young person has SEND if they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made that is additional to or different from that made generally for other children or young people of the same age.” (SEND Code of Practice, pg15)

This SEND Information Report was reviewed and updated in March 2025.

At Edmondsley Primary Academy, we recognise that all pupils are entitled to a quality of provision that will enable them to achieve their potential. We believe in positive intervention, removing barriers to learning, raising expectations and levels of achievement and working in partnership with other agencies in order to provide a positive educational experience for all our pupils including those with a special educational need or disability.

Our school recognises there are particular groups of pupils whose circumstances require additional consideration by those who work with them to support their SEND.

We have appointed a designated teacher for looked after children who works closely with the SENDCO to ensure all teachers in school understand the implications for those children who are looked after and have SEND. We ensure that all pupils, regardless of their specific needs, make the best possible progress.

There are four broad areas of special educational need, these are:

Communication and Interaction
This area of need includes children with Autism Spectrum Condition and those with Speech, Language and Communication Needs.

Cognition and Learning
This includes children with Specific Learning Difficulties, Moderate Learning Difficulties, Severe Learning Difficulties and Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties.

Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties
This includes any pupils who have an emotional, social or mental health need that is impacting on their ability to learn.

Sensory and/or Physical Difficulties
This area includes children with hearing impairment, visual impairment, multi-sensory impairment and physical difficulties.