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up arrow : go up one level Special Educational Needs (SEN) policy
Part 7 - The curriculum in special schools
7.1 Medway Local Authority (LA) will seek to ensure that pupils aged five to 16 years in special schools will follow the National Curriculum at a level appropriate to their attainment. Any modifications or misapplications of the National Curriculum will follow statutory requirements.
   
7.2 The LA will seek to ensure that both special schools and mainstream schools have approaches to curriculum planning to enable individual or small groups of children from special schools to join their mainstream peers in some curriculum areas. This will also allow an individual child to transfer to mainstream provision without the disadvantage of having missed elements of the curriculum.
   
7.3 Medway LA seeks to encourage appropriate opportunities for individuals or groups of children from any special school to join with their mainstream peers in some curriculum activities. This is particularly important in Key Stage 4 as pupils prepare to take their place in the local adult community.
   
7.4 The LA will seek to ensure that all pupils for whom it is responsible are considered for courses that will lead to a national accreditation, for example the Certificate of Achievement or GCSE.

For further information contact:
email icon Email : childrens.services@medway.gov.uk
Telephone icon Telephone : 01634 331130
Mail icon Write to : Medway Council
Gun Wharf
Dock Road
Chatham
Kent ME4 4TR
Minicom icon Minicom : 01634 333111

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Placement in mainstream schools | Placement in mainstream schools - children having difficulties | Placement in mainsteam school - meeting special needs education | Placement in mainstream schools - Individual Education Plan (IEP) | Placement in mainstream schools - a guide for parents and carers | The Special Educational Needs Team | Special Educational Needs (SEN) policy | Part 1 - Introduction | Part 2 - Moving towards inclusion | Part 3 - Principles | Part 4 - Intervention in the early years | Part 5 - LA partnership with schools | Part 6 - Children with SEN to be educated in mainstream schools | Part 8 - Approach to statements | Part 9 - Statutory process | Part 10 - Placement | Part 11 - Partnership with parents | Autism policy | Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) policy | Parent Partnership | all related items »

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