Individual Needs

The Individual Needs Department at Harrow Hong Kong works alongside Language & Learning, Counselling, Class Teachers and House Pastoral Teams to ensure that the academic, social, and pastoral needs of pupils are met through quality differentiation, effective collaboration between educational stakeholders, and impactful staff development.

The Individual Needs Department works with pupils who require extra support or extension beyond regular classroom differentiation in order to meet their learning needs. The Individual Needs Department supports pupils who enter the School with existing reports of individual needs and those who are later identified through the School’s referral system. Depending on the level of support needed, pupils may receive short-term or long-term intervention from an individual needs staff member within their regular lessons in collaboration with the class teacher, in small groups, or 1:1. The department also works with members of staff by identifying and sharing differentiation strategies based on specific pupil profiles, monitoring student progress, and providing professional development.

Examples of the Individual Needs Provision for pupils are:

• In-class support in particular lessons
• Regular 1:1 or small group sessions to support the development of literacy, mathematical and organisational skills
• Regular 1:1 or small group sessions focused on revision strategies, organisation, time management, reflection, review, and consolidation.