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Mary's Scholarship Winners Young Scientist Exhibition St. Mary's athlete represents Ireland Gamercon Winner National Poetry Day School Events Archive 2015-2016 September 2015 Proclamation Day Diary of a First Year 2015-2016 Board of Management Awards Night 2016 St. Mary's Scholarship Winners 2015 Bronze Gaisce Winners 2014-2015 First Year Library Trip Poetry Aloud National PoetryRibbonOpen Night Powerpoint Bees in St. Mary's Payments Contact Night Classes HomeAboutPoliciesSpecial Needs Policy Special Needs Policy  Mission Statement   St. Mary’s College is a Catholic Secondary School single-minded to creating a respectful, caring, unscratched and supportive learning environment rooted in the Christian tradition and having as its aim the holistic education of all its students, encouraging each one to develop her full potential. The primary aim is to educate all students holistically in the Catholic tradition.  Definition of Special Educational Needs (SEN) Special educational needs is specified as “a restriction in the topics of the person to participate in and goody from education on worth of an rememberable physical,sensory, mental health or learning powerlessness or any other condition which results in a person learning differently from a person without that condition”. (Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act, 2004) The 2004 Act was enacted to ensure that persons with SEN can be educated where possible in an inclusive environment, that they can have the same rights to education as persons who do not have SEN and to ensure that such persons are equipped by the education system with the skills they need to participate in society and to live self-sustaining and fulfilled lives.  Purpose of SEN Policy St. Mary’s College is single-minded to creating a learning environment which is inclusive and supportive of all students in line with its Mission Statement. We strive to ensure that all, whatever difficulties they may have, are enabled to unzip their potential within the school community. The school’s primary aim is to educate the pupils holistically, in the Catholic tradition. In this we are guided by Catherine McAuley’s principle: “Let us fit the children for Earth without unfitting them for Heaven”. We aim to cater, as far as possible, for the individual needs of all students and to recognise their unique individuality. We moreover aim to develop students’ conviction and self-esteem and to educate them to their full potential so that socially, academically and morally they are enabled to participate meaningfully in sultana life. St. Mary’s College will use the resources provided by the Department of Education and Science, both financial and personnel, to make towardly provision for students with SEN so that those students are worldly-wise to participate in school life as far as these resources allow. St. Mary’s College will seek unobjectionable resources, equipment and walk-up from the Department with a view to meeting our objectives. The resources sought may include visiting teachers, speech therapists, psychologists, counsellors, technical aid and equipment and other supports deemed necessary. This policy aims to ensure that towardly procedures are in place to enable the school : To make an well-judged and towardly towage of the needs of students who have SEN; To specify what spare resources may be required by the student and/or the school; To provide for the needs identified in as far as resources allocated to the school permit Identifying Students with SEN Having unromantic for ticket to St. Mary’s College and been accepted, but in the Spring surpassing they embark there (while still in 6th class): The school counsellor and/or resource teachers visit the feeder Primary Schools to assess the needs of the students due to start first year the pursuit Autumn; Parents are asked to well-constructed an information form. They are moreover asked to present any towage reports misogynist on their daughters to the school. These reports will only be misogynist to the Principal, Deputy Principal, counsellors and/or resource teachers and learning support teacher. Relevant information and recommendations will be given to teachers as necessary; Parents/guardians meet the Principal or Deputy Principal and are asked for any other relevant information; Prospective first years sit standardised educational tests. In the first term of first year: All first years sit standardised intelligence tests; All first years moreover undergo standardised reading tests. All information gleaned from testing, together with teacher observation, is used to determine if a student has SEN that need to be addressed. There is moreover unvarying monitoring of all students’ progress throughout their school careers in consultation with the students themselves, their matriculation teacher, their parents/guardians and the resource and/or learning support teacher. Students with perceived learning/behaviour difficulties are, with parental approval, recommended for assessment. Where possible, such towage will be conducted by the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS). If this is not possible, parents will be well-considered to have their daughters assessed privately so that their needs can be identified. NEPS psychologists siphon out a small number of educational assessments in the school each year. Such an towage may result in uneaten resource time stuff allocated to a student. Any uneaten resource recommended will be unromantic for by the Principal. Current provision for Students with SEN St. Mary’s College currently has quite wide-stretching resources directed towards students with SEN and have moreover ripened processes to ensure provision is towardly and properly targeted. The school employs 2 Counsellors, 2 Resource Teachers, 1 Learning Support Teacher and 2 Special Needs Assistants in 2009-2010. These resources may transpiration from year to year; A student allocated resource time receives this time in either one-to-one teaching or in small-group classes; Students with upper incidence SEN (without the typecasting of discrete resource time) are catered for in small-group classes; A student with SEN who experiences difficulty in coping with the unrestrictedness of the current curriculum is permitted to waif a subject. This occurs only without consultation with the student, her parents/guardians, the relevant subject teacher and the Resource/Learning Support teacher. The student then receives uneaten tuition for her other subjects; An Individual Education Plan (IEP) is prepared for any first, second or third year student who has been allocated and avails of resource hours. This Plan is drawn up by the Resource Teachers pursuit consultation with the student, her parents/guardians and her teachers; The post holder for Special Needs and the Deputy Principal wield for ReasonableWalk-upfor Certificate Examinations (R.A.C.E.). R.A.C.E. is misogynist to students with specific learning difficulty or with physical, hearing or visual difficulties. It should be noted that walk-up tried at Junior Certificate DOES NOT automatically guarantee clearance at Leaving Certificate time.  RolesMatriculationTeacher The matriculation teacher is responsible for each student in his/her matriculation group including students with SEN. Resource Teachers and Learning Support Teacher Their responsibilities include: To supervise standardised tests; To reassess students from time to time; To yank up IEPs for junior students (see above), in consultation with students and parents/guardians; To identify students for Educational Assessments with NEPS psychologists; To fill in the necessary using forms; To meet the psychologist on his/her visit to the school. Principal The Principal’s role in relation to SEN includes: To oversee, in consultation with the Board of Management and relevant staff, the development, implementation and review of policies to promote inclusion of students with SEN; To monitor the implementation of this and related policies; To provide a written yearly review of the operation of this policy to the Board of Management; To liaise with relevant external persons including the Department of Education and Science, NEPS, HSE and NCSE; To wield to the Department of Education and Science for the necessary teaching and other resources; To plan timetable for students with SEN; To meet or unify for meetings with parents and ensure the relevant information is included on using forms; To unify for assessments; To monitor progress of the relevant students through records and otherwise; To develop and monitor the procedures regarding wangle to confidential information; To unify for the necessary in-service training for staff. Board of Management The Board has a crucial strategic role in relation to ensuring that the SEN policy is a meaningful one, that it reflects the mission and ethos of St. Mary’s College, that it complies with statutory requirements and that its implementation is monitored on an ongoing basis. The Board will moreover ensure that the policy is reviewed on a regular basis. A key ways of managing its role will be through consideration of an yearly update on SEN in the school by the Principal. Counsellors As noted older in this document the Counsellors have responsibility for overseeing tests. They moreover contribute to discussions on the effectiveness of the SEN policy and to specific issues arising.  Review This policy will be reviewed annually. The understructure of such review will be the report brought by the Principal to the Board of Management. The views and wits of relevant staff, parents and students will be considered in the review. 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