Contacting School
Contacting School
Your child’s learning works best with good communication between home and school.
Secondary schools are much larger than primary schools and this can sometimes be difficult to navigate for parents and students. At President Kennedy School, ensuring that students and parents can contact someone is very important. Below is a diagram to show who has the most regular contact with children with Special Educational Needs or Disability.
The Form Tutor
The form tutor sees students every day. Please contact them by note sent in with your child, by email or telephone with information about events such as dentist visits, simple queries about dates, uniform or general concerns. If they need to ,they can pass information and queries to other relevant staff.
The Subject Teacher
The subject teacher sees your child between 2 - 4 times a week. Please contact them by note, email or telephone. You may want to send a message to the form tutor to pass on to the subject teacher. These contacts should be about progress and issues related to that specific subject. Subject teachers may pass information on to form tutors, college teams or members of the SEN team.
The College Team
Each year group is referred to as a 'College'. Members of this team will see your child’s form tutor daily and may see your child regularly over each week. Each team has a 'College Director', a 'Progress Leader', a 'Learning Mentor' and 'Pastoral Manager'. Contact is again available by note, email or telephone. Messages sent to the college team will be directed to the relevant person to take action and return calls. This may be about more specific pastoral issues, concerns about learning in more than one subject area and how your child’s learning is supported. College staff meet weekly with the SENDCO to share concerns and share information with subject leaders and teachers.
The SEND Team
Members of this team may be based in your child’s college, or in the SEND department. How often they see your child will depend upon the individual needs of each child. Contact with these staff will be about the support they give in class or in interventions. Members of this team will liaise with subject teachers, college teams and the SENDCO.
The SENDCO
The SENDCO aims to coordinate the assessment, support and review of every student with Special Educational Needs or Disability. However, for the majority of students, support is provided by the staff in the list above. The SENDCO meets weekly with the college teams to discuss particular issues and aims to coordinate responses. The SENDCO has a particular focus on students with Education Health and Care Plan
Designation |
Name |
|---|---|
| SENDCO | Mr Davies |
| SEND Coordinator | Mrs Hetherton |
| SEND Learning Coordinator | Mr Skyrme |
| Leader of Inclusion and Intervention | Mrs Sharp |
| Autism Lead Specialist | Mrs McKeever |
| Hub Curriculum Leader | Miss Price |
| Hub Learning Mentor | Mr Lee |
|
Miss Sandhar |
| EAL Teacher | Mr Keshwara |
| HTLA | Mrs Haynes |
| Year 7 SEND Link | Mr Townsend |
| Year 8 SEND Link | Mr Casbourne |
| Year 9 SEND Link | Mr Ross |
| Year 10 SEND Link | Miss Mattu |
To contact a member of the SEND Team, please email: SEND@pks.coventry.sch.uk