Specialist Resource Provision

Designation

Primary need: speech, language and communication (two years or more language delay/disorder). This includes boys with bilateral hearing loss (moderate to profound) with language delay or disorder.

A secondary need of social communication including autism, will also be considered.

How does it work?

Coombe Boys’ SRP has a cohort of 4 students in Year 7 and 5 in Year 8. There will be spaces for 4 students in each Year group going forwards. All students come with an EHCP.

What we offer

The curriculum offered is bespoke to students' needs but generally students will access a combination of lessons in the SRP and in the mainstream.

Provision may include

• Small-group specialist teaching for language-heavy subjects

• Total Communication approach

• Pre-teaching

• Occupational therapy

• Guided reading

• Precision Teaching

• Speech and language intervention

• Interventions are built in

• Use of Colourful Semantics and Shape Coding

• Daily listening checks for students with equipment

• Movement breaks and Zones of Regulation embedded into lessons

Staffing

• Specialist Language teachers in the SRP

• Specialist subject teachers in the mainstream

• SRP Learning Support Assistants

• Visiting Speech and Language Therapists

• Visiting Occupational Therapist

• Visiting Educational Psychologist

• Visiting Qualified Teacher of the Deaf

Future Pathways

• Follow a modified KS3 curriculum

• Bespoke KS4 pathway

• Entry Level-GCSE

• Functional Skills

• SMiLE Therapy

• ASDAN courses

• Vocational Courses (Potential Links with Nightingale Community Academy)

• Construction

• Animal Management

• Horticulture

• Mechanics

• Hairdressing and Beauty

Excellence

Ambition

Integrity