This can include difficulties with:

• Reading and spelling
• Learning and remembering new information
• Working with numbers
• Working memory
• Concentration
• Conditions such as Specific Learning Difficulties, Dyslexia, general learning difficulties, ADHD

What Birch Hill Can Offer?

• Dedicated, experienced and caring staff; some of whom have received training in supporting pupils phonics, spellings and reading difficulties
• Access to assessments by outside agencies who can then offer recommendations to both the school and the family
• Opportunities to help support the development of key skills in small group and 1:1 settings
• Access to a range of support materials and equipment

Targeted group support may include:

• Booster lessons and small group interventions that will focus on the particular needs of the group: such as reading, comprehension, spelling, writing and fluency
• Advice from Educational Psychologist at our termly consultation and Liaison meeting
• Intervention groups provided by in - school support staff 
• Additional support through our SEN teaching assistant and class teaching assistants.

Targeted individual support may include:

• Daily, individual reading sessions
• A range of intervention programmes that will focus on the individual needs of the pupil
• Termly assessments (in Key Stage 2) of reading comprehension and spelling so we can review and plan next steps