Page 28 - Seaford College Winter Newsletter 2024

Academic Access and Achievement
The department continues to provide excellent support for Seaford Students, building on our
understanding of neurodivergent students.
This year Miss Jennifer Owen was appointed Acting
SENCo, previously the Deputy SENCo and Miss
Kerri Reed continues her role as Head of Learning
Support Prep.
Students that come to the department are both
neurodiverse and neurotypical and can have great
strengths in academia. Some students have weekly
one-to-one sessions and courses of 3-6 sessions
are also available, for GCSE and 6th form students,
to target exam technique and revision or other
individual needs.
The Academic Confidence Clinic continues to take
place twice a week, during prep, to support students
with completion of their homework. These are invite-
only sessions and are non-compulsory.
This term, revision sessions have been delivered to
Year 11 students during tutor time and there will be
an online session in the Spring Term aimed to help
parents support children prepare for exams. Date to
be confirmed.
In conjunction with IT and the Exams office, the
school successfully deployed read technology, Read
and Write, for all exams last academic year. Enabling
students with readers to be more independent.
In October, the department hosted a networking
event, attended by Specialist Teachers and SENCo’s
from local schools. The focus was on Autism and
ADHD and a working group has formed which aims
to meet termly to discuss best practice in supporting
students.
If you would like more information on anything mentioned in the newsletter or need to contact the
SENCo please email jowen@seaford.org and for the Prep School please email kreed@seaford.org
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