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Inclusion (Quality Mark)
Inclusion Quality Mark redesignation achieved in December 2008
Sir Jonathan North Community College has a range of strategies in place to support inclusion. These include successful Pastoral Support systems through the Key Stage Managers, Year Team Leaders and Tutors, Student Support Assistants, a Learning Development Faculty, the Minority Ethnic Language and Achievement team and the Positive Behaviour Team. In addition we have a Learning Mentor Team and Connexion Personal Advisors. Supported by a range of external services we seek to meet the needs of students in our care. The task of the Inclusion Team is to draw these strands together and ensure that students are directed to the most appropriate additional support. The strategy seeks to engage those young people who are having difficulty in accessing the opportunities offered at Sir Jonathan North Community College.
Central to our work are the five outcomes for children identified in Every Child Matters, every child should:
- Be healthy: enjoying good physical and mental health and living a healthy lifestyle
- Stay safe: being protected from harm and neglect and growing up able to look after themselves
- Enjoy and achieve: getting the most out of life and developing broad skills for adulthood
- Make a positive contribution: to the community and to society
- Achieve economic wellbeing
The priority is to utilise internal and external provision to raise achievement and move students forward in a positive way. The Inclusion Team within College include:
- Members of the Senior Leadership Team
- Key Stage Managers
- Year Team Leaders
- Learning Mentors
- Head of Learning Development
- Staff in the Minority Ethnic Language and Achievement Team
- Connexions Personal Advisors
- Teaching Assistants
- Student Health
- The Co-ordinator for Raising the Achievement of Looked After Children
- The Open Door Counselling Service
- Student Support Assistants
They are supported by outside agencies – which include the Educational Psychology Service, Education Welfare Service, Children and Young Peoples Services, the Cluster Linked Inclusion Co-operative (CLIC), the Special Needs Teaching Service and Student Support Service, Voluntary Mentors, Traveller Support Service, the school medical officer, school nurse and primary mental health team, the Parent Partnership Team and other appropriate voluntary agencies.
The students we are targeting have been identified through our analysis of College records for academic achievement, attendance and exclusion. They include:
- Looked After Children
- Children from traveller communities
- Students from areas of socio-economic deprivation.
- Students with unacceptable behaviour or poor attendance from middle ground disaffection to those on Pastoral Support Programmes and at risk of permanent exclusion.
- Students identified as underachieving.
- Students with poor confidence or self esteem.
- Students who are transferring between Key Stages.
- Students with other identified barriers to learning.
Parents are encouraged to be actively involved in our work.
The aim is to provide an individual programme and action plan for each student identifying the areas of concern and SMART targets devised to enable progress to be made.
The strategies used will include – one to one support, group work, the use of external agencies and specialised courses in College addressing key issues to include Anger Management, Behaviour Management, Stress Management, Raising Self Esteem, Time Management, Revision Skills and Communication Skills. In addition we will access courses from external providers to meet individual needs.
