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Meet our ALN Staff:
ALNCo Primary
Mr L. Sirrell
ALNCo Secondary
Mr M. Peláez-Heras
Head of LRB
Mrs R. Fieldhouse-Booth
Ebbw Fawr Learning Community 3-16 is a fully inclusive school which provides for a wide range of learning needs. This varies from specific to moderate, to more severe learning difficulties.
We strive to provide an outstanding experience for every pupil that comes to our school, offering opportunities for a positive, happy and successful education. We are a very caring and welcoming community that also has exceedingly high expectations of every single one of our students. We take great pride in enabling them to grow and to flourish in a safe environment. We provide a wide variety of bespoke learning packages for our learners with specific learning and medical needs.
One of our core beliefs is that pupils should remain at the centre of all our decisions. Our aim is to deliver a fully inclusive education provision for all.
The principle of the Additional Learning Needs (ALN) system (ALNET ACT 2018) is inclusive education, as reflected in the Code Of Practice (2021). At Ebbw Fawr Learning, meeting the needs of learners with ALN is a whole school approach and a part of our policies.
Learners’ needs are met in the majority of cases through the use of universal provision, which includes high quality teaching and learning strategies as well as a range of academic and wellbeing interventions.
In a small number of instances, a targeted provision with a Learning Plan (LP) is initiated when a learner is identified as having an Additional Need. This Additional Need can be identified as an Additional Learning Need and detailed in a learner’s Individual Development Plan (IDP).
A specialist provision will be in place for those learners with more complex ALN. There may be a need for Local Authority and multi-agency involvement to support the IDP.
Literacy Interventions/Numeracy Interventions:
Wellbeing Interventions:
Other Interventions:
“To support the creation of a fully inclusive education system where all learners are given the opportunity to succeed and have access to an education that meets their needs and enables them to participate in, benefit from, and enjoy learning.”
For further information, visit the Welsh Government website: https://www.gov.wales/additional-learning-needs.
The Local Authority has its own information: www.blaenau-gwent.gov.uk/en/resident/schools-learning/additional
At Ebbw Fawr Learning Community we are also proud to work with external agencies such as SNAP Cymru, Educational Psychologist, Family First, CAMHS and many others.
SNAP Cymru as our parent partnership service provides dispute resolution and advocacy support for children and young people: www.snapcymru.org