ACCESSIBILITY PLAN: REVIEWED MARCH 2012 DUE NEXT REVIEW
MARCH 2015
Bolney CEP School
ACCESSIBILITY PLAN
Checklist
Section 1: How does the school deliver the curriculum?
Question
a) Do you ensure that teachers and teaching assistants
have the necessary training to teach and support
disabled pupils?
b) Are your classrooms optimally organised for disabled
pupils?
j) Do lessons provide opportunities for all pupils to
Are lessons responsive to pupil diversity?
Yes/No
Yes
Yes – adjustments
made as required
Yes
Yes
c) Do lessons involve work to be done by individuals, pairs,
groups and the whole class?
Yes
d) Are all pupils encouraged to take part in music, drama and
physical activities?
e) Do staff recognise and allow for the mental effort expended by
some disabled pupils, for example using lip reading?
f) Do staff recognise and allow for the additional time required by
some disabled pupils to use equipment in practical work?
Yes
Yes
Yes
g) Do staff provide alternative ways of giving access to experience
or understanding for disabled pupils who cannot engage in
particular activities, for example some forms of exercise in
physical education?
Yes if it was required
h) Do you provide access to computer technology
appropriate for students with disabilities?
i) Are school visits, including overseas visits, made
accessible to all pupils irrespective of attainment or
impairment?
l) Are there high expectations of all
pupils?
k) Do staff seek to remove all barriers to learning and
participation? Particularly now with Learning Mentor role.
We have worked hard to make Bolney a fully inclusive
school. The whole school site is now level and accessible
to a wheelchair user.
Yes
Yes – and this is
improving
Yes
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2015
Section 2: Is the school designed to meet the needs of all pupils?
Question
a) Does the size and layout of areas - including all academic,
sporting, play, social facilities; classrooms, the assembly hall,
canteen, library, gymnasium and outdoor sporting facilities,
playgrounds and common rooms - allow access for all pupils?
b) Can pupils who use wheelchairs move around the school without
experiencing barriers to access such as those caused by
doorways, steps and stairs, toilet facilities?
Yes/No
Yes
Yes
c) Are pathways of travel around the school site and parking
arrangements safe, routes logical and well signed?
Yes
d) Are emergency and evacuation systems set up to inform ALL
pupils, including pupils with SEN and disabilities; including alarms
with both visual and auditory components?
Not visual, but
staff trained to
assist all pupils
e) Are non-visual guides used, to assist people to use buildings
including lifts with tactile buttons?
No
f) Could any of the décor or signage be considered to be
confusing or disorientating for disabled pupils with visual
impairment, autism or epilepsy?
No
g) Are areas to which pupils should have access
well lit?
h) Are steps made to reduce background noise for hearing impaired
pupils such as considering a room’s acoustics and noisy
equipment?
i) Is furniture and equipment selected, adjusted and located
appropriately?
Yes
Yes – via I.E.P
Yes
Section 3: How does the school deliver materials in other formats?
Question
a) Do you provide information in simple language, symbols, large
print, on audiotape or in Braille for pupils and prospective pupils
who may have difficulty with standard forms of printed
information?
b) Do you ensure that information is presented to groups in a way
which is user friendly for people with disabilities e.g. by reading
aloud overhead projections and describing diagrams?
c) Do you have the facilities such as ICT to produce written
information in different formats?
Yes/No
No
Yes
Yes
d) Do you ensure that staff are familiar with technology and practices
As
developed to assist people with disabilities
required.
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Bolney School
Accessibility Plan – March 2012
Targets
Strategies
Outcomes
Timeframe
Goals Achieved
Availability of written
materials in
alternative formats.
Use LA services to
convert written
information into
alternative formats.
The school could
provide written
information in
alternative formats.
Delivery of information to
disabled pupils is improved.
I.E.P.s to reflect
requirement of
individual needs of
each pupil.
Assessment of
needs prior to writing
I.E.P.
All Children to
access all parts of
the curriculum.
Full Access to National
Curriculum.
Further training of
teachers and
Medium monitoring to ensure
Term
appropriate
differentiation within
the curriculum
Ensure that
differentiation is an
integral part of the
curriculum, through
training and
monitoring.
Teachers enable all
pupils to access the
curriculum
irrespective of
disability or ability.
Achieved –
detailed provision
in PE (for e.g to
be examined to
ensure as much
participation as
possible
Improved pedestrian
access to the main
entrance
Planned use of
capital delegated
resources. Discuss
with LA using
Schools Access
Initiative Funding
The school’s entry
area will be fully
accessible.
July 2010
Short
Term
Long
Term
Provide designated
disable parking
Increase in access to National
Curriculum.
Physical accessibility of
school increased.
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