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Ghyllgrove Primary School

Ghyllgrove Primary Resource Base for Hearing Impaired Children

Ghyllgrove Primary School,
The Gore,
Basildon,
ESSEX
SS14 2BG

Tel: 01268 450067
Fax: 01268 523175
E-mail: rbhic@ghyllgrove.essex.sch.uk
Teacher of Deaf-in-Charge: Ms. Scrocca
Headteacher: Mrs. Gibbon

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Ghyllgrove Primary Resource Base

for hearing-impaired children
(from age 3 to Year 6)

Ghyllgrove Resource Base for Hearing Impaired Children

Ghyllgrove Resource Base for Hearing-Impaired Children is a provision that provides specialist teaching for hearing-impaired children from the surrounding area.
We provide opportunities for a
curriculum, suited to the individual needs of each child.
Communication
Communication approaches include spoken English, Sign-Supported English and British Sign Language. All the curriculum is supported through signing and children are encouraged to use signing to communicate alongside developing their spoken English.
A BSL instructor visits regularly and works with individual children according to their needs, alongside liaising with school staff. All staff working in the Resource Base have, or are acquiring, qualifications in BSL.
Many of the mainstream children learn some signing and all KS2 children can improve their signing skills by attending a lunchtime signing club.
The Resource Base is also supported by a Speech and Language Therapist who works closely with the staff, developing individual programs for the children to improve their communication skills.
Resources
The Resource Base has it’s own teaching rooms which have good acoustics and provide a quiet, well-resourced working environment for individual or small group teaching. All the mainstream classrooms are carpeted with rooms in each year group also having improved acoustics and their own soundfield systems. Both the school halls have soundfield systems installed. Radio-aid systems are available for all children to use.
Any amplification equipment used by the children is checked each morning and is monitored by staff throughout the day.
The Curriculum
All children are taught according to their individual needs. A modified curriculum is in place for each child with support from specialist staff in order for the children to access a broad and balanced curriculum.
During the week, the children have opportunities to work in the resource base rooms in small groups either with other children from the resource base or with their hearing peers. There are also times when the children are withdrawn to work 1:1 with specialist staff.
Inclusion
At Ghyllgrove the children are included in their mainstream class as often as possible, working and socialising with their hearing peers as well as the other children in the resource base.
Home and school liaison
Each child has a home/school communication book which is used by parents and school staff. Contact is also made by phone calls or email and every term a meeting is held for parents to discuss their child’s progress.