Children with SEN require a special approach – obvious maybe, but the subtle complexities of each child’s needs are often far from it, which means those practitioners working with them in dedicated schools may need to think a little bit more outside the proverbial box than their mainstream counterparts.
For Danecourt School in Kent, pictured, this has meant using teacher-led enquiry to drive a constant flow of changes and improvements to cater for the full range of learning difficulties of its 150 pupils. All full-time pupils at Danecourt have a statement of SEN with learning difficulties that cannot be met by resources within a mainstream school and its teacher-led enquiry approach last year helped the school towards an outstanding Ofsted report.
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