At Hargrave Park School, we are committed to ensuring that our specialist learning spaces – HP House and HP Cabin – are nurturing and inclusive environments which support children who have complex learning needs. Our mission is to offer a highly personalised learning experience that enables children to access the benefits of a specialist provision while attending a mainstream school setting.

SEND Mission Statement

HP House is a small group classroom that caters for an older cohort of children who are verbal (they use speech to communicate with others) but have speech, communication and language needs along with other SEND.  There is a higher adult to child ratio in HP House compared to the rest of the school and this ensures that each child in HP House is able to better focus and attend to their learning activities.

Lessons in HP House are adapted to meet the children’s learning needs; lessons are presented in a highly visual way and in a multisensory manner to make learning memorable and helps children build on their learning from lesson to lesson. In HP House, the children benefit from adults using unambiguous, clear and straight-forward language when speaking to the group and from the explicit teaching of new and unfamiliar vocabulary and concepts. Each child in HP House has an Individual Plan (IP) which is written and reviewed termly.

Each child who attends lessons in HP House has a bespoke timetable according to their learning needs. Most children attend lessons in HP House in the morning and attend lessons in the afternoon in their larger classroom. A child’s placement in HP House is monitored and reviewed to ensure that the provision continues to be the best educational provision for their needs.

The admission criteria for entry to the HP House at Hargrave Park School is primarily based upon: a child’s presentation, the barriers to learning a child may be experiencing, the level of the child’s learning needs, and the difficulties the child may be experiencing with accessing learning in their mainstream classroom.

The Head Teacher is responsible for deciding which children would benefit the most from the specialised support offered in HP House. This decision is made following the four-part cyclical graduated approach of ‘assess, plan, do, review’ as outlined in the SEND Code of Practice (2015), and takes into consideration advice from the Educational Psychologist, the Speech and Language Therapist and all other relevant professionals.