Every Child has the right to education irrespective of gender, race, belief, sexual orientation and ethnicity or disability. These are set out in the children act 1989, the Equality act 2010, Human Rights act 1998, disability discrimination act 1995 and 2005 and also the Sex discrimination Act.
As an independent school. Ummid works with young people from a range of different school, who have been excluded due to their behaviour not being acceptable or students who cannot work in large classes and need special small group support.
The school policies and procedures are based on the government legislation and are set out in the mission statement and aim of the school. Some of which are:
The Ummid Independent School adopts a holistic; solution focused approach to the development of our young people and endeavours to ensure that they achieve as high a standard as possible.
We offer a comprehensive curriculum and care to meet the individual requirements of young people with complex educational needs
We also work with students who don’t speak English as a first language or struggle to understand what they need to do in class and the work provided for them.
I have worked with these students who require a lot of support and dealt with a lot of patience. The following is a short account of how is worked with a student.
The student when starting the junction project was very quiet and struggled to do his work. He would have to be encouraged a lot to do his work and would need to be explained to in simple as possible words that he could understand what work he needed to do. I would have to do most of the work with him at first until he understood what was asked of him and then with me still supervising him he would do the rest of his work. As time went on he began to talk more and his understanding became improved. We spoke to him in English all the time. What I mean about this is that sometimes people put on an accent or say things a