Additional Learning Needs
We work across two sites. In Port Talbot you will find our Behavioural, Emotional and Social Needs (BESN) provisions, one for Key Stage 3 and one for Key Stage 4.
Bryncoch is our largest site. Here we support learners with Cognition and Learning Difficulties and learners with Autism. We also have a small primary provision for learners with BESN. The Local Authority plans each placement and our learners come to us from across the county
Mrs C. Flannery (Acting Assistant Headteacher) is our Additional Learning Needs Co-ordinator (ALNCo). She is based at our Bryncoch site and visits every site across the school regularly. Every learner at Ysgol Hendrefelin has Additional Learning Needs (ALN). These range from learning difficulties to behavioural difficulties and sometimes include additional health needs. Whatever the need, learners join us because they benefit from a small classroom and a high level of specialist support.
In every provision, we create nurturing classrooms where caring staff support each child. Some children and young people need further individualised support. They access a range of interventions within a broad and balanced curriculum.
We take a person-centred approach with every learner and their family. We work together so each child achieves their best possible outcomes.