We were again awarded the prestigious Inclusion Quality Kitemark (IQM), Centre of Excellence Status in 2024.

Whaley Thorns Community Primary School provides a fully inclusive main stream primary provision. We strive to ensure that all pupils achieve their potential academically, personally, socially and emotionally in all areas of the curriculum, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, social background, religion, sexual identity, physical ability or educational needs.

In the documents listed below you will find the ways in which our schools ensure they support all of our pupils, including those with SEND, in order that they can realise their full potential. We are continually developing new skills, resources and techniques to ensure our provision meets the changing requirements of our pupils. 

Our SENDCO is Mrs Emma Genders and she can be contacted on 01623 742604.

What steps do we take to prevent disabled pupils being treated less favourably than other pupils?

As a school, we put measures in place to provide inclusive provision for our students, with a view to prevent the occurrence of each and every one of our pupils being treated less than any other pupil in school. The school’s Accessibility Plan includes information about the steps we take to prevent disabled pupils being treated less favourably than others and the facilities we provide to help all of our disabled pupils access the school’s physical environment, the curriculum and the delivery of information in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.

In March 2024, the school was again awarded the Inclusion Quality Mark Centre of Excellence (IQM) to evidence how we as a school strive to meet the needs of our disabled pupils. At Whaley, we believe in working together to be the best that we can possibly be. We will ensure this by:

• Providing high quality teaching using a range of stimulating resources that maximise the context of the local area and beyond.
• Having high expectations of them to achieve through an appropriate curriculum.
• Ensuring that the learning environment will be safe, so that children can express themselves in the security of an open and supportive space in which they can fully develop their academic and social skills.
• Striving to maintain high standards of behaviour.
• Providing a carefully planned, balanced and relevant curriculum which promotes a positive attitude to learning.
• Setting high expectations set for all children in order to raise levels of achievement and make progress against their individual learning targets across the school.
• Prioritising the physical, social, moral and emotional development of every child.
• Prioritising wellbeing for all.
• Actively living our vision of "Everyone is Different, Everyone is Special" and ensuring that our children are kind and inclusive.  

Click here for the Derbyshire Local Offer

Click here for the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Code of Practice

Click here for the Derbyshire Information and Advice Support Service (DIASS)