SEND Support for Your Child
Inclusion is integral to life at Gateacre School
There isn't a one size fits all approach; students’ needs are discussed and reviewed with parents and professionals on an individual and regular basis and a programme of support is implemented.
Click here to view our Policies Page where you will find the following:
- SEND Policy
- SEND Information Report
- Accessibility Plan
- Access Arrangements and Reasonable Adjustments Policy
Students with specific needs
Our Inclusion Team support students in their mainstream lessons as required. If needed, additional support may be explored, be that additional literacy groups to nurture lessons to mentoring to the extracurricular sessions.
The Pastoral Support Structure within the school ensures that children who have other additional needs or who may be vulnerable are also supported, be it through mentoring, our excellent links with external agencies or providing appropriate Careers Information Advice and Guidance. Again the emphasis is on a bespoke system, which ensures we are inclusive through every aspect of the school day.
SEND Local Offer
Click here to view Liverpool Council's SEND Local Offer
Additional Support For Your Child
At Gateacre we have lots of interventions to help you and we will make sure you get the help you need. This could be:
- Literacy Intervention
- Numeracy Intervention
- Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) Intervention
- 5 Minute Timeout Card
- LSA Support
- Lunch Club
- Break Club
- Handwriting Help
- Laptop
- Coloured Overlay/Paper
- ToeByToe
- Word Wasp
- School Counsellor
Please click below to read a letter by one of our students.
Contact us
If you have any questions then you can email Mrs Moreton on k.johnston@gateacre.org and Mrs Moreton and her team will do their best to answer them.
Sound Walk
Moving to secondary school is a huge moment in any young person’s life. A new school means a new environment, usually larger in size, with more complex demands and accompanied by a series of unfamiliar and potentially bewildering sounds.
For a young person with autism this transition can often be particularly challenging. Support and preparation for transition can result in a better outcome.
The videos below will support young people with autism during transition to high school by enabling them to familiarise themselves with the types of new sounds they should expect to hear, prior to arrival in the new environment.
These videos has been designed to help you get used to the different sounds you'll hear around the school. Click on each video to hear sounds from that part of the school. It's best to use headphones to get the most accurate idea of what it's like being in those places.
