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STUDY SUPPORT

COURSE CONTENT Our aim is to encourage students with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) to
become independent learners. The Learning Support Centre (LSC) is staffed by
friendly and supportive teachers who draw on a range of specialist resources.

APPROACH TO TEACHING We offer a tiered approach to Study Support, dependent on a student’s needs. Many
AND LEARNING of our students with SpLD are able to work fairly independently and may only need
occasional access to the LSC to seek guidance and support. This support is available
at our lunchtime workshops, which are staffed by LSC Study Support staff.
Students may need additional help with anything from planning and structuring an
essay to help with revision strategies or examination techniques prior to internal or
external exams. These students will be monitored by the LSC and group tutors to
ensure that they are receiving adequate support to meet their needs.
Students with AEN following the green route will automatically receive either Study
Support sessions or additional Maths and English support sessions. This will be
decided depending on the level and nature of needs. Selected students following
the other curriculum coloured routes, and who need a greater level of assistance,
will be offered Study Support sessions in place of a GCSE option. These sessions will
be taught by a teacher with additional assistance being available from subject
specialists in curriculum areas, such as Mathematics and Science, dependent on
staff availability.
Students will be placed into small groups; there are usually no more than eight
students in a study support class, with many groups being smaller than this.
Students are grouped dependent on the curriculum they are following and the
nature of their difficulties wherever possible.
In exceptional cases students may be offered individual tuition, but only where the
group support that is outlined above is insufficient to meet a student’s needs. This
individual support will incur an additional charge.
Where appropriate, students are introduced to assistive technology to enable them
to become independent in their learning and all students are shown how to access
these free tools on their iPads. Further training in voice recognition and
computerised readers is also available.

ASSESSMENT The key areas covered in Study Support sessions are:
• Assessment and target setting/review
• Making use of educational technology to support learning
• Psychoeducation: learning about neurodiversity and their own learning profiles
• Reading and responding to a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts
• Personal organisation and time-management
• Writing accuracy and planning
• Understanding longer exam questions and planning written responses
• Effective note-taking techniques
• Active and efficient revision
• Exam Technique

CONTACT Learning Support Centre (LSC)
lsc@millfieldschool.com

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