Student Support
Alan Andrew
Director of Student Support
ICS offers parents and students a unique and successful learning environment of inclusion. ICS is successful at including students with special educational needs and helping them meet those needs in a positive and proactive way. Inclusion, for the professionals at ICS, is far more than just about the location of a child’s school placement. Inclusion is about instilling a sense of community and belonging for all students with or without special educational needs.
The student support team, led by Alan Andrew, assesses the needs of each child to develop a profile of learning strengths and weaknesses. Individual Education Plans (IEPs) are then developed by the entire multidisciplinary team and used as the guiding framework for meeting each child’s specific special needs. Individualized goals are developed not only to remediate learning difficulties, but also to facilitate the child’s integration into all classroom activities.
The approach at ICS is flexible and adapted to meet individual needs within the overall curriculum framework, allowing us to accommodate a wide range of learning styles and differences. We utilize a multi-disciplinary team approach in order to offer the best opportunity for children to be successful while remediating learning difficulties.
Specialized therapies and other services are provided to the students once the multidisciplinary team decides which ones are most suited for the student’s strengths and needs. These therapies are provided to maximize the student’s learning potential, educational success and social competence.
The therapies provided through ICS are:
- Speech/Language Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Art/Play Therapy
- Counselling
- Literacy Remediation & Support
- Maths Remediation & Support
- In-class Learning Support Assistant
Finally, our students have many opportunities for learning in the “real world”. Integrated into the curriculum are several excursions to local destinations, to our Suffolk campus and to international destinations in our Travel and Learn program. These specialized services help make this one of the most unique programmes available at any special needs school in London.