Learning Support Services

Head of Department

Mr B Canning

Staff

Mrs M McKechnie (Senior Teacher)

Mrs H Morris (Senior Teacher)

Miss W Davidson

This Department offers a range of services across the school:

It works in consultation with other departments and teachers in creating, reviewing and adapting course materials in order that the whole ability range is catered for within the school.
It provides special arrangements for any pupil whose progress may have been hampered due to a prolonged absence from school.
It supports the individual pupil who may need extra tuition in the basic skills of language and number work.

This support is often provided through co-operative teaching withsubject teacher classes. Should specific individual tuition berequired, withdrawal from mainstream education may take place.

Pupils with Special Needs

The education authority has a policy of integration. This promotesthe placement into primary and secondary schools of pupils withsignificant special needs. Additional support may be given to theschool to enable such placements.

Special classes may be attached to some schools. These makeparticular provision for pupils with significant learningdifficulties or emotional and behavioural difficulties. These alsooffer opportunities for integration. Integrated placements orplacements into special classes are made following assessment by theauthority's specialist advisers and in consultation with parents.

Pupils with special needs at St. Margaret's are among thepriorities of our Department of Learning Support Services.

All facilities in our new building are readily accessible by thedisabled.

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