Student Support Services
BIS Secondary SEN/Learning Support
Our committed Learning Support teachers provide and help facilitate appropriate learning opportunities for students with mild to moderate Special Educational Needs/ learning difficulties.
Support can be offered to students throughout their school career at BIS; on a long or short term basis.

 Your child may require support if they:

  • have a recognized learning difficulty / Special Educational Needs
  • are particularly able or talented
  • have motor or sensory  impairments
  • find communication difficult
  • need to develop their organisational skills

We know your child’s individual needs through:

  • the information you have given us
  • meeting and discussing individual year 6 students with primary teachers and the primary SENCO before transition to Secondary
  • students self referring
  • teachers in school, referring students to Student Support Services
  • Assessing your child’s needs – with your consent

Learning Support helps your child by:

  • Supporting them in some classes – collaborative teaching with subject staff
  • Withdrawing them from lessons to work in a small group or one to one setting
  • Discussing with teachers support strategies
  • Promoting and developing organisational skills
  • Working where appropriate with educational psychologists and other external specialists
  • offering after school (Activity time) homework support
  • offering literacy after school support  (Activity time)– For identified students only

Withdrawals from lessons are to revise work or to address specific areas of need. 
During Student Support afterschool Activity students receive assistance with subject specific homework or again to address a specific area of need.

These approaches allow the student to have the individualised support they require to access the curriculum and progress.
John Cahill - Secondary Student Support (SENCO) jcahill@bisphuket.ac.th
Yuki Koyama - Secondary Learning Support teacher ykoyama@bisphuket.ac.th