Our school aims to be inclusive. We want all our children to feel welcome and happy and look forward to their school day. Every child is different, and we view these differences as an opportunity for adults and children alike to learn more about themselves.

If your child has a disability, they will be treated no less favourably than other applicants for admission. We make reasonable adjustments to ensure that pupils with disabilities are not placed at a substantial disadvantage. Our accessibility plan describes the arrangements we have already made and the further proposals planned to improve physical access to the school, access to the curriculum and access to written information.

The school has a policy for supporting children with special educational needs, which is revised annually. The policy is available on the website and in the school office. Our aim is for all children to have access to all aspects of school life, as far as is reasonable and practicable.

We aim to prevent disabled pupils in our school from being placed at a substantial disadvantage. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that people with a disability are not treated differently without lawful justification. We will make reasonable adjustments for disabled pupils, and we will know we have succeeded when disabled pupils are participating fully in school life.

For effective partnership working between home and school to take place, we anticipate that parents will want to:

• inform the school at the earliest opportunity if their child has a disability and the exact nature of it
• provide the information the school needs to plan effectively for the child to be a full member of the school community
• acknowledge that when deciding whether an adjustment is reasonable, one of the factors the headteacher must consider is the effect of the proposed change on all members of the school community
• recognise the importance of school and home working in partnership