RELENTLESS TEACHING AND LEARNING

 

Cognition and Learning is an overarching term to describe young people who may learn at a slower pace than their peers, even with appropriate differentiation.

 

At NOA students may be supported by this area if they have a moderate learning difficulty (MLD) or a specific learning difficulty (SPLD) such as dyslexia, dyspraxia and dyscalculia.

 

This space has been created to provide you with ideas, strategies and resources to support students with cognition and learning difficulties, but please also look at the steps below that indicate how we support these students throughout the whole school at NOA.

 

Steps to supporting students with Cognition and Learning Difficulties at NOA

Step 1

• Quality first teaching

• Teaching and learning policy

• Staff training and awareness sessions

• NQT support

• Staff mentoring

• Differentiated curriculum planning

• Differentiated learning outcomes

• Nurture groups in each year

Step 2

• In class support for specified students

• Personalised catch-up and study support in literacy and numeracy

• In class interventions such as speed up, Rapid Plus and Move for Words

• Dyslexia screening

Step 3

• Paired reading

• Reading to the dog

• Support from outside agencies including Ed Psych

• Numeracy interventions – Number shark, Power of 2, Power of 2 times tables.

• Literacy interventions – Toe by Toe, Stareway to spelling, New Reading and Thinking, Word Hornet, Word Shark