Meldrum Academy together with its associated feeder primaries and other partners, aims to meet the full range of needs that individual learners may have. This includes their social, emotional and health needs, in addition to learning needs. In order to achieve this, our ‘community school’ approach to learning integrates both teaching staff and resources together with a wider team of health, social work, community learning, administrative and technical support staff.
Meldrum Academy has been designed to cater for the individual needs of all of its pupils. There is disabled access throughout the school, including a lift. All teaching areas have facilities for disabled children and there is a specially designed Support for Learning ‘Connections’ Suite located in the centre of the academy. This is staffed and resourced to assist identified pupil needs by supplementing the support normally given in each subject and to deliver concentrated support on a ‘one to one’ or ‘small group’ basis where deemed appropriate.
There are four main areas within the Connections Suite. These provide support in the following areas: Support for Learning/mainstream; Support for Learning/Connections Suite; Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties and Autistic Spectrum Disorder. All of these facilities are managed as one integrated unit led by Mrs Fraser, the Principal Teacher of Support for Learning. They are staffed with a very dedicated team of 14 teachers and 15 learning support assistants.
