All Governors, staff and parents are committed to making Brecknock a safe, secure, consistently outstanding school in every aspect.

We strive to provide education in its deepest sense; which leads children to be secondary ready with a lifelong desire to learn and develop into responsible, creative, caring, articulate and self-motivated citizens of the future.

At Brecknock:

• Every child will make rapid progress from their starting point. No child will be missed and no child will fall behind.
• Provision will be matched to the needs of each and every child to ensure that not a moment in school is wasted.
• Every child, including the most able and those with SEND will be challenged and stretched to enable them to become fully independent learners.
• Our curriculum will engage our children and inspire them to become lifelong learners within an ethos where success is born out of achievement.

Every member of our community will understand and demonstrate the importance of mutual respect, good manners and exemplary standards of behaviour.

What Brecknock values

• We embrace and celebrate the difference and diversity in our community and make all members welcome.
• We value, respect and celebrate the achievements of ALL children.
• We are a UNICEF Rights Respecting School and have high expectations of all of our children’s social, emotional and academic development.
• Our Rights Respecting agenda develops the self-esteem and confidence of our children as well as promoting an ethos of justice, fairness and equality in all aspects of their school life.
• We value the importance of children being inquisitive and active learners, taking responsibility for their learning journeys and becoming lifelong, independent learners.
• We value and respect the opinions and involvement of our children’s parents/carers They know their children best and we will always involve them in the planning and reviewing of their child’s progress.
• Early intervention is key to providing support for children to progress. The earlier support can be in place the more effective it will be.
• We recognise that at times some children may need extra specialist support and/or resources to be the best learners they can be. We aim to identify and provide this effectively.
• We have a consistent whole school approach to making provision for children with SEND, making sure that all staff have the knowledge and skills to support all children with SEN/D in our school.

How we learn with, and from other schools

We are a learning community and believe that it is important to work with other schools to make sure that our knowledge, expertise and skills on SEND issues are up to date.

We have the same inclusion team as our Federated School, Torriano, and benefit from sharing expertise and resources.

We undertake visits to local schools to share our practice and look at aspects of their practice.

Our SENDCo attends the Local Authority SENDCo forum, which keeps all schools up to date with national developments and local projects on inclusion.