Our vision for inclusion 

At Cornwall Education Learning Trust, we believe every learner should feel valued for who they are and be given the right support to thrive. Learners with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) are at the heart of our inclusive community. 
 
We want families to feel confident that their learner will be supported to learn, achieve, and grow – both in school and in life. 

 

What  SEND means

Some learners need extra help with their learning. A learner is considered to have SEND if they:  

• Find learning harder than most learners their age, or 

• Have a disability that makes it difficult to access school life in the same way as others. 

 

There are four main areas of need we support: 

1. Communication & Interaction (C&I) – speech, language, and social communication needs. 

2. Cognition & Learning (C&L) – difficulties with thinking, understanding, or learning, including dyslexia and dyscalculia. 

3. Social, Emotional & Mental Health (SEMH) – challenges with emotions, behaviour, or mental health. 

4. Sensory and/or Physical Needs – hearing, vision, physical, or sensory processing difficulties. 

 

How we support learners

All learners benefit from high-quality teaching in the classroom. At CELT, staff use Learning and Teaching Chronicles to guide how we teach.  

Alongside this, we use the Adaptive Teaching Toolkit (ATT). This breaks teaching down even further, giving staff practical strategies to adapt lessons for learners who might need extra support. For example, breaking down instructions, using visuals, or changing resources so they are easier to access. 

To support this, every staff member also has access to the Curate and Narrate document. This sets out the obstacles to learning for identified learners and highlights the strategies that work best for them. It makes sure that staff know how to put the right adaptations in place, so learners feel included and able to succeed in class. 

Every learner with SEND has a Student Success Plan. We make this together with the learner, parents and carers, and we review it each term. 

Together, the Chronicles, ATT, and Curate and Narrate make sure that teaching is consistent, inclusive, and flexible — meeting the needs of every learner. 

 

Working with families

We believe parents and carers are experts on their learners, and we work together by combining their knowledge with our professional expertise. 

 

Meet our Inclusion Team

Supporting transitions

Change can be tricky – so we make sure learners and families feel supported when moving on to new stages of education. This might be: 

• Starting nursery provision

• Starting school in Reception 

• Moving up to the next year group  

• Moving from primary to secondary 

We plan transitions together with families and learners, so support is ready before the change happens. 

 

Safeguarding

Our staff understand that learners with SEND can face extra safeguarding challenges, and they receive yearly training so we can do our very best to keep every learner safe.  

 

CELT diversity, equity and inclusion training for our staff

 

 

 

Key documents and reports 

Each school also publishes its own SEND Information Report, updated every year. This explains: 

• How the school identifies and supports SEND
• The kinds of needs it can support
• How staff are trained to meet learners’ needs
• How exam access arrangements are managed

 
You can find these reports on your child’s school website, on the Inclusion page.