Mainstream Special Education Team in St. Farnan's Post Primary School 2024-2025:

Special education teachers provide additional teaching to our students with special educational needs in a number of different ways including:

• assessing and recording the child’s needs and progress
• setting specific, time-related targets for each child and agreeing these with the subject teacher and school leadership
• teaching the students, either with the rest of the class or in smaller groups or individually as needs arise
• advising subject teachers about differentiating the curriculum to suit different students
• meeting with and advising parents, accompanied by the teacher, as needed
• meeting other professionals such as psychologists, speech and language therapists, visiting teachers in relation to a students’s special educational needs.

Our Special Education Team provide students and parents/guardians with support in many ways:

Policy, Planning and Organisation of Special Needs Education provision

EAL - English as an Additional Language

RACE - Reasonable Accommodations at Certificate Examinations

Irish Exemption guidance

L1LP & L2LP programmes

Assistive Technology applications

Co & Team Teaching, small group and individual withdrawal for literacy, numeracy and specialised learning initiatives 

Provision Mapping within our DEIS targets strategy

General Learning Disorder assesments 

Linking with SENO & Neps coordinators