Our Targeted Plus Offer

Personalised support. Working together. Helping every pupil thrive.

At Atlantic Academy, we recognise that some children and young people experience more complex, significant or persistent needs that require a highly personalised approach to learning and participation in school life.

Our Targeted Plus Offer builds upon the inclusive teaching and additional support provided through our Universal and Targeted Offers.

For a smaller number of pupils, this may involve carefully coordinated support, specialist advice, individualised learning programmes or additional arrangements to help them access their education.

Our aim is to ensure that every pupil continues to experience high expectations, a sense of belonging and opportunities to develop confidence, independence and success.

What Does Our Targeted Plus Offer Look Like?

Targeted Plus provision is planned around the individual pupil and their identified needs.

Support may involve teachers, the Inclusion Team, pastoral staff, specialist professionals, parents and carers, and the pupil themselves.

The examples below illustrate the types of personalised provision that may be considered. Support is determined by individual circumstances, professional advice and the resources and services available.

Cognition and Learning

Providing personalised approaches to support learning and independence.

Some pupils require more individualised teaching approaches or specialist support to help them access the curriculum and develop essential knowledge and skills.

Our Targeted Plus Offer may include:

• Highly personalised learning programmes and appropriate curriculum adjustments.
• Individual support informed by specialist assessments and recommendations.
• Involvement of Educational Psychologists or specialist teachers, including those supporting literacy and mathematics.
• Assistive technology, such as reader pens or Chromebooks, where appropriate.
• Individualised arrangements for recording work and accessing written information.
• Additional structured learning through The Harbour, where this forms part of an agreed support plan.
• Specialist advice and outreach to inform classroom teaching and adjustments.
• Coordinated support linked to individual learning outcomes.

Our focus is on helping pupils overcome barriers to learning while developing the knowledge, confidence and independence needed to participate successfully in their education.

Communication and Interaction

Developing communication, understanding and confidence in social situations.

Some pupils benefit from specialist advice or highly personalised strategies to support communication, interaction and participation in school life.

Our Targeted Plus Offer may include:

• Specialist Speech and Language Therapy advice or intervention.
• Individual communication plans informed by specialist recommendations.
• Enhanced visual and communication systems.
• Specialist attention and listening interventions, including Bucket Time, where appropriate.
• Individual sensory and communication profiles.
• Structured support for social interaction during less structured parts of the school day.
• Personalised emotional regulation and communication strategies, such as the five-point scale.
• Involvement of specialist teachers or outreach services.
• Highly personalised transition planning, including preparation for significant changes in routine, setting or stage of education.

These approaches aim to help pupils communicate effectively, build positive relationships and participate with increasing confidence and independence.

Social, Emotional and Mental Health

Providing coordinated support for wellbeing, engagement and participation.

We recognise that some pupils experience significant or persistent social, emotional or mental health needs that affect their ability to engage with learning or attend school consistently.

For these pupils, a more individualised and coordinated approach may be required, involving academy staff, families and, where appropriate, external professionals.

Our Targeted Plus Offer may include:

• Individual emotional regulation and support plans.
• Coordinated support through The Harbour, where appropriate.
• Structured programmes to support reintegration into mainstream lessons.
• Personalised support for pupils experiencing emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA).
• Individual attendance and reintegration plans, developed in partnership with families.
• Coordinated involvement of external professionals and specialist services.
• Specialist mental health advice or intervention through appropriate referral pathways.
• Carefully planned and regularly reviewed adjustments to a pupil’s school experience where exceptional circumstances require them.
• Multi-agency planning involving the academy, families and relevant professionals.
• Consideration of alternative provision pathways where appropriate to a pupil’s individual circumstances.

Our priority is to help pupils feel safe, supported and connected to their education, while working towards sustained engagement, participation and successful learning.

Where individual arrangements are required, these are carefully planned and reviewed, with a clear focus on the pupil’s educational needs and longer-term outcomes.

Sensory and/or Physical Needs

Making personalised adjustments to enable access, safety and participation.

Some pupils require specialist assessment, equipment or individual arrangements to help them access learning and the wider school environment.

Our Targeted Plus Offer may include:

• Specialist sensory assessments and recommendations.
• Occupational Therapy referrals and advice.
• Advice from hearing support services or other sensory specialists.
• Individual risk assessments and Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs), where required.
• Highly personalised adaptations to the learning environment.
• Specialist equipment or assistive technology.
• Individual programmes to support physical access, mobility and participation.
• Coordinated support involving specialist professionals and academy staff.

We aim to ensure that pupils can participate safely, comfortably and confidently in their learning and wider school experiences.

Planning and Coordinating Support

Targeted Plus provision is carefully planned and reviewed to ensure that it remains appropriate to each pupil’s needs.

Where additional support is required, we work with pupils, parents and carers, teaching staff and relevant professionals to identify priorities and agree appropriate strategies.

Support may be recorded through an individual Learning Plan or other relevant support arrangements, helping staff understand the pupil’s strengths, needs and intended outcomes.

We use a graduated approach of Assess, Plan, Do, Review, considering the impact of provision and making adjustments as needs develop.

Our aim is to provide support that is purposeful, coordinated and responsive, while helping pupils build independence wherever possible.

Working with Specialist Professionals

Where additional expertise is needed, we may seek advice from external professionals and services.

These may include Educational Psychologists, specialist teachers, Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists and other relevant services.

The involvement of external professionals depends on individual needs, referral criteria and service availability.

We value the contribution of families and pupils throughout this process and aim to ensure that specialist recommendations inform practical support within the academy.

Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs)

Some children and young people with more significant or complex special educational needs may require an Education, Health and Care needs assessment.

An Education, Health and Care Plan is a statutory document that identifies a child or young person’s needs, intended outcomes and the special educational provision required to support them.

An EHCP is not required to access our Targeted Plus Offer. Support is considered in response to identified needs, and a formal diagnosis or EHCP does not automatically determine which internal interventions or arrangements will be appropriate.

Where a pupil has an EHCP, we work with families and relevant professionals to deliver and review the provision specified in their plan.

Further information about identifying needs, requesting support and the EHCP process can be found on our Supporting Your Child page.

Maintaining Connection with Mainstream Learning

Our aim is for pupils to remain connected to their learning, peers and wider academy community.

Where personalised arrangements are needed, we seek to ensure that these support participation, build confidence and develop independence.

Additional provision is carefully considered and reviewed, with a focus on helping pupils access their education as successfully and fully as possible.

Explore Our Inclusion and SEND Offer

Our Universal Offer — Inclusive teaching and everyday adjustments that support all pupils.

Our Targeted Offer — Additional planned interventions and support for identified needs.

Supporting Your Child — Information about identifying needs, reviewing support and working with families.

The Harbour — Learn about our internal inclusion centre and how it supports pupils as part of the academy’s wider provision.

Personalised support. Shared understanding. High aspirations for every pupil.